GACE - History Test 1 / Revised Questions and Answers / Guaranteed Pass
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In the above passage, the historian argues that the Code of Hammurabi illustrates which of the following
developments in Mesopotamia?
a) Matriarchy
b) Patriarchy
c) Polygyny
d) Polyandry - b) Patriarchy
"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than ...
GACE - History Test 1 / Revised Questions and
Answers / Guaranteed Pass
In the above passage, the historian argues that the Code of Hammurabi illustrates which of the following
developments in Mesopotamia?
a) Matriarchy
b) Patriarchy
c) Polygyny
d) Polyandry - b) Patriarchy
"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with."
Question: The thought of which of the following Renaissance thinkers is expressed by the passage
above?
a) Francesco Petrarch
b) Niccolò Machiavelli
c) Dante Alighieri
d) Leonardo da Vinci - b) Niccolò Machiavelli
"When broke out every anti-Fascist in Europe felt a thrill of hope. For years past the so-called democratic
countries had surrendered to Fascism at every step. But when General Francisco Franco tried to
overthrow a mildly Left-wing Government, the Spanish people, against all expectation, had risen against
him. It seemed the turning of the tide. Franco had against him not only the working class but also the
liberal bourgeoisie. Moreover, the Spanish working class did not, as we might do in England, resist Franco
in the name of democracy and the status quo. Land was....
Orwell describes the resistance to Franco's overthrow of the republican government of Spain as a
,a) reassertion of the status quo under aristocracy
b) unique alliance of bourgeoisie and proletariat
c) reassertion of the free market and free trade
d) communist conspiracy to install a Soviet puppet regime - c) reassertion of the free market and
free trade
Confucianism developed as a system of thought in China primarily in response to
a) social and economic dislocation brought about by rapid urbanization and industrialization
b) the introduction of European ideas and Christian missionary activity that challenged Chinese
traditions
c) the instability and political crises brought about by frequent regional conflict during the Warring States
period
d) the cultural shock caused by military reversals in the wake of nomadic invasions by the Xiongnu -
c) the instability and political crises brought about by frequent regional conflict during the
Warring States period
During the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976, which of the following groups were most
subjected to persecution?
a) Students opposed to China's involvement in the Vietnam War
b) Business owners accused of restricting trade with the Soviet Union
c) Intellectuals accused of displaying bourgeois values
d) Politicians opposed to the resumption of relations with the United States - c) Intellectuals
accused of displaying bourgeois values
During which of the following decades did China first embrace aspects of capitalist development to grow
its economy?
1950s
1960s
1970s
, 1990s - 1970s
European exploration of the Atlantic Ocean in the second half of the fifteenth century was prompted in
part by the
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
expansion of Baltic trade routes by the Hanseatic League
expulsion of the Jews from Spain
political disunity of the Indian subcontinent -
For which of the following reasons did both Christianity and Buddhism experience success in converting
people living in poverty and sickness?
Missionaries from both religions offered food to the hungry in exchange for conversions.
Powerful Roman and Han emperors demanded religious conversions from their subjects.
Both religions provided hope for peace and happiness at the end of earthly existence.
Both religions reinforced existing societal norms with which the lower classes were already comfortable.
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In contrast to Karl Marx, Mao Zedong sought support from which of the following social groups for the
communist movement in China?
a) Aristocrats
b) Urban merchants
c) Industrial workers
d) Peasants - c) Industrial workers
In the late nineteenth century, western European women who belonged to the middle-class were most
commonly expected to
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