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Title: Strategies for the Multiple Choice Questions


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Strategies for the Multiple Choice Questions
  • Identification Questions
  • Analysis Questions
  • Visual Interpretation
  • Quotations
  • Cross-chronological and Except Questions
  • Exam organization, Pacing, and Guessing

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Identification Questions
  • The most common type (between 40-50 of the test)
  • You may be asked to identify, for example
  • The accomplishment of a historical figure
  • A major feature of an intellectual movement
  • The result of a treaty

Most Basic
More Complex
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Identification Questions
  • Often you will find 2-3 that you can eliminate
    quickly because they are
  • (1) out of the time period
  • (2) involve absolute phrases (never, always,
    complete), or
  • (3) have little to do with the question stem

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Identification Questions
  • What was the immediate result of WWI?
  • (A) a return to normalcy and peace across Europe
  • (B) the breakup of the Soviet Union
  • (C) complete acceptance of peace terms by
    defeated powers
  • (D) dissolution of empires in Central and Eastern
    Europe
  • (E) a United States boycott of the peace
    conference

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Analysis Questions
  • To assess your powers of historical understanding
    (about 20 of Section I)
  • Somewhat more complex than identification
  • They ask you to make a conclusion or judgment

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Analysis Questions
  • Often will ask about the impact of a movement or
    judge the most important cause of a political
    event
  • May involve finding the most appropriate
    characterization of something
  • A political leaders policies
  • The features of a cultural movement
  • How population changed over time

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Analysis Questions
  • Which of the following best characterizes the
    Enlightenment attitude toward organized religion?
  • (A) a desire to eliminate all public religious
    practice
  • (B) skepticism towards religious dogmatism
  • (C) acceptance of its important role in morality
  • (D) rejection of religious toleration for
    minority faiths
  • (E) celebration of the progressive role of the
    Catholic clergy

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Visual Interpretation
  • Here is where your increased attention to the
    visual supplements in your text pays off (about
    20 of the questions)
  • You are provided with a visual stimulus
  • Map, graph, chart, political cartoon, painting
  • The picture is not the purpose itself
  • Most likely represents an important trend,
    conflict, or issue covered in the course

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Cheap Clothing Punch Magazine
  • This 19th century British cartoon is a commentary
    on which of the following?
  • Dangerous working conditions in textile factories
  • The improved standard of living produced by
    inexpensive cloth
  • The injustice of denying the working class the
    vote
  • British dominance of the Indian textile industry
  • The negative impact of a free trade treaty with
    France

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Quotations
  • 5-10 of the questions
  • Interpret the quote or put it into context
  • It will represent some significant idea or
    development of the course
  • Look for a significant phrase that might be
    associated with a thinker or movement
  • i.e. class struggle ?

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Blood mixture and the resultant drop in the
racial level is the sole cause of the dying out
of old cultures for men do not perish as a
result of lost wars, but by the loss of that
force of resistance which is contained only in
pure blood.
  • The quote above represents which of the following
    writers and contexts?
  • (A) Darwins concern for the survival of the
    fittest
  • (B) Charles Vs effort to combat the Ottoman
    Turks
  • (C) Hitlers call for a racially pure Germany
  • (D) Pasteurs explanation of the germ theory of
    disease
  • (E) Mazzinis condemnation of foreign rule of
    Italy

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Cross Chronological and Except Questions
  • Both are rare but do comprise of 5-10 of the
    overall Multiple Choice Section
  • Cross-chronological questions where choices
    range across time periods
  • You are expected to have a broad enough grasp to
    recognize the trend

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Cross Chronological
  • In which two consecutive centuries did Europe
    experience first a decrease in population, and
    then in the next a steady population increase?
  • (A) Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • (B) Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • (C) Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
  • (D) Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
  • (E) Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries

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Except Question
  • All of the following helped cause the French
    Revolution EXCEPT
  • (A) a government budget crisis that the king was
    unable to resolve
  • (B) criticism by Enlightenment philosophes of the
    inequality of the Old Regime
  • (C) a subsistence crisis that led to high bread
    prices
  • (D) increased aristocratic opposition to royal
    aboslutism
  • (E) the threat of foreign invasion by a
    British-led alliance

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