AP European History: Age of Anxiety (Years Between the Wars)
Guided Reading
1. Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica portrays the
a. ups and downs of everyday life
b. artist’s romantic nature
c. brutality and darkness of the 20th century
d. suffering brought on by the Great Depression
e. reality of Stalinist concentration camps
2. To resolve the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe,
the U.S. developed the
a. Agricultural Adjustment Act b. Dawes Plan
c. League of Nations
d. New Deal
e. Locarno Pact
3. All of the following artistic styles emerged in the Age of Anxiety except
a. surrealism b. cubism c. dadaism d. impressionism e. extreme expressionism
4. The British political party that emerged during the 1920’s as the champion of the
working class and the main opposition to the Conservative Party was the
a. Liberal Party
b. Labour Party
c. Communist Party
d. Social Democratic Party
e. Christian Democratic Party
5. Authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and William Faulkner wrote about
a. societal problems
b. utopian escapist themes
c. romantic themes of love and personal fulfillment
d. the complexity and irrationality of the human mind
e. Christian salvation
6. Jean-Paul Satre stressed
a. the role of emotion in understanding reality
b. the remoteness of God
c. the role of religion in human behavior
d. that philosophy is only the study of language
e. that individuals must give meaning to life through actions
7. Friedrich Nietzsche maintained all of the following except that
a. religious belief provided stability in an absurd world
b. conventional morality was suffocating self-realization and excellence
c. rationality had been overemphasized
d. a few superior beings could rise above the masses to become heroes
e. Christianity was a “slave morality”
8. Albert Einstein’s greatest contribution to the destruction of the Newtonian universe
was his
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
discovery of quanta
principle of uncertainty
discovery of the radioactive properties of radium
theory of special relativity
deconstruction of atomic theory
9. When Germany refused to make its second reparations payment, France and Belgium
a. declared war
b. established a naval blockade of German ports
c. appealed to the League of Nations
d. declared the Versailles Treaty null and void
e. occupied the Ruhr district
10. When the German government printed money to pay unemployment benefits to
workers striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 led to
a. hyperinflation
b. French withdrawal from the Ruhr
c. a rise in the Ruhr workers’ standard of living
d. the crash of the U.S. stock market
e. French speculators buying up German currency
11. The political stability of the mid/late 1920’s was due to all of the following except the
a. Dawes Plan
b. Kellogg-Briand Pact
c. Locarno treaties
d. Munich Agreement
e. German entry into the League of Nations
12. Leni Riefenstahl’s film The Triumph of the Will
a. was a masterpiece of Nazi propaganda
b. was a bizarre expressionist masterpiece
c. brilliantly dramatized the communist view of Russian history
d. starred Charlie Chaplin in his greatest role
e. exposed the financial and sexual corruption of the Nazi Party
13. The “Spirit of Locarno” referred to the belief that
a. the Great Depression would never end b. God was dead c. peace was possible
c. capitalism and bourgeois culture was dying e. Bolshevism could be overthrown
14. Besides movies, the most popular form of entertainment among working classes was
a. radio b. television c. hunting/fishing d. religious revival meetings e. horse racing
15. According to Sigmund Freud, human behavior
a. cannot be understood
b. is motivated by rational calculation
c. is a compromise among instinct, reason, and moral values
d. is controlled by societal norms and moral values
e. is driven solely be subconscious instinctual drives for sex and power