Question 1 Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the Civil War?Answer The South was home to many of British and French descentThey associated the North with nationalist...

Question 1
Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the Civil War?
Answer

The South was home to many of British and French descent

They associated the North with nationalist ideology

Their economies depended on Southern cotton

They maintained important seaports in the South

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Question 2
Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple?
Answer

For the French's help in industrializing Egypt

In gratitude for helping him become Egypt's viceroy

For France's military support in his invasion of Turkey

As payment for the money Egypt borrowed from France
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Question 3
By how much did Haussmann's plan increase land dedicated to public parks in Paris?
Answer

Ten times

Twenty-five times

Fifty times

A hundred times
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Question 4
Why was Egyptian cotton so prized by European markets?
Answer

Held dye better

Exceptionally soft

Long , strong fibers

Cheaper than American
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Question 5
What is Japonisme?
Answer

Imitation of Japanese art

Prints colored in flat areas

Japanese woodblock prints

Japanese wrapping paper
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Question 6
On what values was liberalism based?
Answer

Equality and freedom

Regional autonomy

Monarchial control

Working class reform
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Question 7
Why did Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believe capitalism should be eliminated?
Answer

It supported government

It failed to generate profits

It exploited women and slaves

It was inherently unfair
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Question 8
How did the East India Company recoup the money it spent buying Chinese products for import?
Answer

Indenturing the Chinese for cheap labor

Opening gold and silver mines in India

Taxing the goods destined for America

Selling opium to the Chinese
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Question 9
Why did the Japanese nishiki-e calendar painters have to disguise the symbols for months in their
works?
Answer

The government forbade printing of calendars

The Japanese disliked the Western use of calendars

The Japanese symbols for months were too erotic

The government held a monopoly on calendar printing
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Question 10
Why does Suzuki Harunobu in both Two Courtesans. Inside and Outside the Display Window and Visiting
(Kayoi) portray one woman sitting and the other standing?
Answer

To show one (sitting) as virtuous and one (standing) as immoral

To represent a phallus with the standing woman

To reflect the Taoist principle of harmonious opposites

To balance the figures within his grid structure
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Question 11
Why did Charles Garnier design the façade of the Paris Opera House to be a merger of Neoclassical and
Baroque?
Answer

To satisfy liberals and nationalists

To highlight the best of both styles

To reflect a new imperial style

To cut expenses by using existing parts
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Question 12
In Rigoletto, how does Giuseppe Verdi show his characters' contrasting emotions?
Answer

Using lighting...