The greatest change in American literature during the late 1800s was the rise of __________
A) poetry
B) evolutionism
C) realism
D) romanticism
E) impressionism
Answer: C
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A) Papal defiance of the emperor. B) Immorality in convents and monasteries. C) The sales of indulgences and papal supremacy. D) Salvation through works. E) The Investiture Controversy and the Babylonian Captivity.
Which statement is FALSE about China at the end of the nineteenth century?
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As a result of the Second Opium War, Qing China was forced to abide by all but one of the following:
a. opening of a dozen ports to foreign trade b. reduction of extraterritoriality privileges c. recognition of opium as a legal commodity d. establishing of foreign embassies in the capital city of Beijing
The major reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s was a. Ronald Reagan's launching of the Strategic Defense Initiative. b. a major nuclear power plant disaster in the Soviet Union that virtually destroyed the Soviet economy. c. a chain of industrial failures in Soviet client states initiated by American covert actions undertaken by
theCIA on orders from President Reagan. d. the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev.