EUH3205 Study Guide for Final Exam The final examination will consist of three sections which are explained in more detail below First section worth 30 30 multiple choice questions Second section worth 30 6 short answer questions Long essay worth 40 The first section will consist of thirty multiple choice questions These will be based on the material we have covered from the French Revolution through World War I There will be a variety of types of questions some will require you to identify significant historical figures phenomena and events Others will test your understanding of key concepts such as modernism Still others will test your knowledge of core readings e g Mazzini s Duties to Man Finally a number of questions will test your understanding of key developments like the 1848 Revolution the Industrial Revolution the unification of Germany the new imperialism and the outbreak of World War I among others A list of important terms events concepts and broad developments can be found on the second and third pages of this study guide One note questions will either be matching or multiple choice there will be none of the multiple answer types of questions that we ve used on the self check quizzes The second section of the test will consist of 6 short answer questions In most cases they will ask you to relate one or more quotes or in some cases images to a broader historical phenomenon or context In most cases these quotes and images will be familiar to you from the readings and lectures Here is an example of this kind of question 1 Explain the significance of this quote in relationship to the specific context in which it was written and the French Revolution as a whole To what extent does the rhetoric in this passage foreshadow the more radical rhetoric of 1793 1794 Who then shall dare to say that the Third Estate has not within itself all that is necessary for the formation of a complete nation It is the strong and robust man who has one arm still shackled If the privileged order should be abolished the nation would be nothing less but something more Therefore what is the Third Estate Everything but an everything shackled and oppressed What would it be without the privileged order Everything but an everything free and flourishing Nothing can succeed without it everything would be infinitely better without the others Abb Siey s What is the Third Estate 1789 In most cases it will take 1 2 paragraphs to answer these questions The following topics are likely to serve as the basis for these short answer questions 1 the French Revolution and Napoleon 2 the Industrial Revolution 3 conservatism nationalism liberalism Romanticism 4 the 1848 revolution 5 socialism 6 unification of Italy of Germany 7 religion and science in the Victorian era 8 the women s suffrage debate 9 the social question and the working class movement 10 the new imperialism 11 fin de si cle culture 12 the origins of World War I You will be given a choice of which questions to answer but the selection will be limited In studying for these questions do not attempt to memorize individual dates or texts Instead focus on broader complexes of events and ideas and how these relate to each other The third section will consist of a long essay In this essay you will be required to synthesize information from a number of different sources and topics This part of the exam is designed to assess how well you understand the broad themes of the second half of the course and how they fit together The essay will be based on the following question which focuses on the late 19th century One of the major developments in Europe during the late nineteenth century ca 1871 1914 was a crisis of liberalism with liberalism understood here as both a political and economic ideology and as a broader philosophy or worldview In a wide ranging essay describe the factors social political cultural that led to the late nineteenth century crisis of liberalism What were the consequences of this crisis Important notes about the final exam By now you should have made an appointment with the University Testing Center in order to take your final exam If not go immediately to https www registerblast com fsu Exam If you live far away from Tallahassee you should have made arrangements to take the test at an FSU approved site Please be sure to arrive at the Testing Center well in advance of your actual appointment keep in mind that traffic tends to be worse during exam week You will not be allowed to bring anything into the Testing Center including notes books phones etc Also keep in mind that once you have taken the exam it is an Honor Code offense to communicate with anyone except the instructor or mentor about its contents until the end of exam week Not every version of the final will be the same though they are designed so that no version is more difficult than any other Terms and Concepts for the Final Exam Abb Siey s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Maximilien Robespierre Louis XVI sans culottes Edmund Burke Ernst Moritz Arndt Caspar David Friedrich Clemens von Metternich Adam Smith Thomas Malthus Andrew Ure Samuel Smiles The Communist Manifesto Estates General seigneurial rights guild Tennis Court Oath Bastille October Days Vend e Rebellion National Convention National Assembly Committee of Public Safety Terror Dechristianization Directory Eighteenth Brumaire Russian Campaign 1812 continental system Joseph de Maistre Brothers Grimm Prussian reforms 1807 1812 War of Liberation Congress System Concert of Europe Karl Sand August von Kotzebue Carlsbad Decrees Charter of 1814 German Confederation Waterloo Holy Alliance Louis XVIII July Revolution King Louis Philippe Great Reform Bill 1832 Peterloo rotten borough cottage industry putting out system Luddites New Poor Law 1834 Robert Owen Charles Fourier phalanstery Karl Marx February Revolution Frankfurt Parliament big Germany little Germany June Days Louis Napoleon Great Exhibition 1851 Underworld Caney the Clown Victoria Albert William Gladstone Reform Act of 1867 Contagious Diseases Acts Giuseppe Mazzini Crimean War Ottoman Empire Piedmont Sardinia Camillo di Cavour Giuseppe Garibaldi Realpolitik Charles Darwin social Darwinism Pius IX Syllabus of Errors Papal Infallibility Bernadette Soubirous Lourdes Otto von Bismarck Blood and Iron Speech Franco Prussian War Kulturkampf Socialist Law Germany Hausmannization Le Bon March Napoleon III Paris Commune Edouard Manet Third Republic Great Depression
View Full Document