AP European Unit Exam

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AP European Unit Exam Questions and Answers (2022/2023) ( Answers)

1.1. Edwin Chadwick gained fame as a/an✔✔ advocate of improved

public sanita- tion.

2.2. Georges Haussmann is remembered for✔✔ rebuilding Paris.

3.3. Improved economic conditions in the nineteenth century led to✔✔

the expectation that married women would not work outside the home.

4.4. The development of the revolutionized urban life in

the 1890s.✔✔ electric streetcar

5.5. According to the text, working-class leisure typically included all of

the following except✔✔ hosting dinner parties.

6.6. Joseph Lister is responsible for the✔✔ practice of antiseptic

sterilization.

7.7. In 1900, the richest percent of the population received 33

percent of all national income.✔✔ 5

8.8. The flaw in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution was his✔✔

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lives could be on to their offspring by heredity.

9.9. The breakthrough development of germ theory was the work of✔✔

Louis Pasteur.

10.10. Napoleon III believed that rebuilding Paris would lead to all of

the following except✔✔ a more equitable division of wealth.

11.11. As the nineteenth century progressed, the upper middle class✔✔

tended to merge with the old aristocracy.

12.12. The middle classes championed✔✔ traditional Christian values.

13.13. The white-collar employees identified with the✔✔ middle class.

14.14. According to the text, one of the social functions of the labor aris-

tocracy's strict moral code was✔✔ to maintain their unstable social and economic position.

15.15. Across Europe, was the favorite leisure-time activity

of the working class.✔✔ drinking

16.16. Ignorance and were most responsible for the

poor conditions in early industrial cities.✔✔ the legacy of rural housing conditions

17.17. The decline in illegitimacy rates after 1850 was probably the

result of✔✔ the higher incidence of marriage for expectant mothers.

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