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Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 24

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Quiz for Chapter 24: Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914

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1. In publishing this image of a family in one of its pamphlets (Document 24-1), the Eugenics Education Society of London made the point that

all married couples should have as many children as possible.

increased childbearing was the goal for the most racially fit families.

individual couples should embrace traditional gender roles within the family.

modern couples should model their lives after historical precedents.

2. According to Freud (Document 24-2), what was the primary technique for the scientific interpretation of dreams?

Understanding the act of dreaming as a somatic process rich with symbols

Approaching a dream as a whole rather than its individual components

Examining a dream’s details and their connection to the waking state

Disassociating the content of a dream from the dreamer’s own desires

3. Why did Émile Zola describe the Dreyfus Affair as a “crime against society” (Document 24-3)?

The military’s treatment of Dreyfus violated the principles of the rights of man.

The court proceedings endangered France by exposing its military secrets.

Dreyfus’s conviction had increased the Jewish threat to French national security.

The government had violated public trust by restricting the freedom of the press.

4. As described in her speech (Document 24-4), why were Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow women’s rights activists driven to action?

Men were incapable of protecting women as well as they had done in past centuries.

Middle-class women needed to protect their status from the growing ranks of the working class.

Splinter groups had tarnished the movement by abandoning constitutional methods as a mechanism of reform.

Traditional forms of political activism and codes of conduct had failed to improve women’s condition.

5. Which of these views on imperialism did Rudyard Kipling’s poem and the San Francisco Call editorial share (Document 24-5)?

Western nations must work together to bring the benefits of their civilization to non-Western peoples.

The moral, economic, and political benefits of imperialism outweighed its challenges.

European imperialism was a growing source of international tensions and rivalries.

Western nations should focus their attention on the home front rather than on imperialistic concerns.

6. Which of these best describes the attitude toward war of Heinrich von Treitschke and the authors of the French opinion poll (Document 24-6)?

War was fundamentally reactionary and threatened European greatness.

War was an essential tool of nation building and modern progress.

Nations must distinguish between unjust and just war in their military policy.

War should never overshadow individual citizen’s rights and needs.