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Will This Book Ever Get Written? Quiz


As some Funtrivia regulars know, I'm writing a book on world history - among other things. This quiz goes over some of the periods I'm working on. Hopefully you'll like the material half as much as I do!

A multiple-choice quiz by stuthehistoryguy. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Time
6 mins
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Quiz #
256,985
Updated
Jun 28 23
# Qns
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Question 1 of 10
1. My first chapter is on Serbia as it changed hands between great powers in the 1700s. When the Ottoman Empire ceded Belgrade Pashalik to the Habsburg Empire in 1718, what was a major impact on the life of the average person? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. My second chapter concerns the European Enlightenment, the movement toward intellectual development in the North Atlantic during the eighteenth century. Which of these was NOT a major Enlightenment thinker? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Chapter three deals with nationalism, the building of common, usually ethnic, national identity, often in regions that had long been under foreign control or oppression. Which of these is NOT a common characteristic of nationalism? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Chapter four talks about American history, particularly the cultural effect of tuberculosis (TB) in New England. TB was an especially feared disease for its protracted suffering - the afflicted, often in the prime of life, would lose their strength, bit by bit, usually while afflicted with a hacking, "graveyard" cough. A sick person might persist in a miserable condition for years. Also frightening was that the disease, now known to be caused by bacteria, seemed to run in families, so when one member sickened it heavily foreshadowed doom for the rest. By what name was tuberculosis (along with other diseases with similar symptoms) commonly known? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Chapter five is on Victorian Britain and its relationship with the world. The later 1800s were a time of great expansion for the British Empire, as the use of English around the world today attests. Which of these was NOT under British rule during the period? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. My sixth chapter is on East Africa, especially Kenya, and the growing discontent with British imperialism through the twentieth century. What paramilitary brotherhood was dedicated to anti-British activities in Kenya? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The seventh chapter of my nascent tome discusses the Gypsies since World War II. The Gypsy Holocaust, which saw the deaths of an estimated 275,000 people, has paled in discussions of world genocides before the better-known fascist campaigns against the Jews, and this abomination has largely been forgotten. Which of these was not a concentration camp for Gypsies (along, at times, with others) during the Holocaust? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Chapter the eighth takes up the twentieth century phenomenon of rural development, to the extent that rural areas, once very distinct from cities even within the same nation-state, have grown to resemble and identify with more metropolitan areas in terms of culture, education, and availability of services. My inquiry concerns rural development in the state of Tlaxcala. Where is Tlaxcala? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Chapter nine examines the economic plight and cultural challenge of the Hmong, a unique, rural nationality displaced by the Communist/anti-Communist wars in Asia from World War II to the 1970s. Which of these countries would be *least* associated with the Hmong? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. My final chapter (number eleven - chapter ten is actually kind of scary) concerns the history of MY lifetime: the North Atlantic since the 1970s. The prevailing cultural and intellectual currents of this period have stressed the questioning of traditional values and assumptions on matters of race, gender, religion, and values. In essence, whereas someone could comfortably point to white, middle-to-working class nuclear families as a cultural "mainstream" without much challenge fifty years ago, many (if not most) commentators today would question rather or not there IS a mainstream of any sort in the twenty-first century. What term has been widely applied to this type of thought? Hint



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1. My first chapter is on Serbia as it changed hands between great powers in the 1700s. When the Ottoman Empire ceded Belgrade Pashalik to the Habsburg Empire in 1718, what was a major impact on the life of the average person?

Answer: The Orthodox Church, once a main administrative body, lost its privileged status, and the Habsburgs strongly pushed for wide conversion to Catholicism

Ottoman rule in the area had been notoriously lax before Belgrade went over to the Habsburgs in 1718. The Sultan ruled through a "slave system" of locals who were conscripted into Muslim service as boys, and this system was augmented by related to the ruled peoples throught their religious authorities. This relationship was known as the "millet system", and, though the Orthodox Church can hardly be said to have thrived under the arrangement, Eastern Christians were not actively persecuted. Christians could not exercise political authority, but there was little pressure from the Sultan toward Islamic conversion, and there was nothing resembling the pogroms against the Jews in Christian countries.

Austrian rule was much more intensive, with efforts toward converting Belgrade to a German city and poorly-received pressure for Orthodox Christians to accept Papal authority. The Ottoman Empire would win the area back in 1739. The resistance of recalcitrant Serbs was a substantial reason why.
2. My second chapter concerns the European Enlightenment, the movement toward intellectual development in the North Atlantic during the eighteenth century. Which of these was NOT a major Enlightenment thinker?

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson was a great thinker who would not have been out of place in the Enlightenment, but he came along well after most historians feel that movement concluded.
3. Chapter three deals with nationalism, the building of common, usually ethnic, national identity, often in regions that had long been under foreign control or oppression. Which of these is NOT a common characteristic of nationalism?

Answer: Greater toleration for religious minorities

Unfortunately, nationalism tends to breed a lack of sensitivity toward cultural minorities; at best, nationalists tend to be ambivalent toward other groups (though, of course, there are exceptions). Even the (arguably) most admirable of nationalists, Mohandas Gandhi, took care to distinguish Indians in South Africa from Native Africans, for whom his editorials in the newspaper "Indian Opinion" often showed limited regard.

For examples, see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#On_South_Africans
4. Chapter four talks about American history, particularly the cultural effect of tuberculosis (TB) in New England. TB was an especially feared disease for its protracted suffering - the afflicted, often in the prime of life, would lose their strength, bit by bit, usually while afflicted with a hacking, "graveyard" cough. A sick person might persist in a miserable condition for years. Also frightening was that the disease, now known to be caused by bacteria, seemed to run in families, so when one member sickened it heavily foreshadowed doom for the rest. By what name was tuberculosis (along with other diseases with similar symptoms) commonly known?

Answer: Consumption

Among the better-known victims of tuberculosis were Henry David Thoreau, John Keats, and Frederick Chopin.
5. Chapter five is on Victorian Britain and its relationship with the world. The later 1800s were a time of great expansion for the British Empire, as the use of English around the world today attests. Which of these was NOT under British rule during the period?

Answer: Vietnam

Though British power had been a worldwide presence since the 1500s, the Victorian Era saw an upsurge in British activity overseas, including an explosion in educational and missionary work. This was spurred by the development of quinine (a treatment for malaria which rendered lengthy stays in Africa less dangerous) and an arguably misguided zeal for worldwide reform promulgated by writers like Rudyard Kipling.
6. My sixth chapter is on East Africa, especially Kenya, and the growing discontent with British imperialism through the twentieth century. What paramilitary brotherhood was dedicated to anti-British activities in Kenya?

Answer: Mau Mau

By objective standards, Mau Mau was a dismal failure. Far more Mau Mau adherents perished during the movement than did British settlers, and the organization was thoroughly crushed. However, almost immediately following the Mau Mau debacle, Kenya achieved home rule under President Jomo Kenyatta, a longtime dissident whose organization (unbeknownst to him at times) was strongly linked to the Mau Mau.
7. The seventh chapter of my nascent tome discusses the Gypsies since World War II. The Gypsy Holocaust, which saw the deaths of an estimated 275,000 people, has paled in discussions of world genocides before the better-known fascist campaigns against the Jews, and this abomination has largely been forgotten. Which of these was not a concentration camp for Gypsies (along, at times, with others) during the Holocaust?

Answer: Fukuoka

Fukuoka was the site of Japanese war crimes that are usually considered apart from the Holocaust, and in any event did not involve Gypsies. Lackenbach was a camp in Austria that specialized in Gypsies, Jasenovac was a camp in Croatia that saw grim depredations against Serbs along with Gypsies, Jews, and others. Auschwitz was a German-administered camp in Poland that is probably the most notorious site of the Holocaust.
8. Chapter the eighth takes up the twentieth century phenomenon of rural development, to the extent that rural areas, once very distinct from cities even within the same nation-state, have grown to resemble and identify with more metropolitan areas in terms of culture, education, and availability of services. My inquiry concerns rural development in the state of Tlaxcala. Where is Tlaxcala?

Answer: Mexico

In generations past, Spanish facility placed a poor second to the native language of Nahuatl, and hospital facilities and schools were few and far between. By the 1960s, however, the region was going through transformation. Many residents, feeling a greater affinity with Mexico as their nation, emigrated to the cities. Schools and mass media caused a surge in Spanish as a spoken and written language. Perhaps unfortunately, the starkly unique culture one would have seen in the 1940s has largely become the stuff of memory.
9. Chapter nine examines the economic plight and cultural challenge of the Hmong, a unique, rural nationality displaced by the Communist/anti-Communist wars in Asia from World War II to the 1970s. Which of these countries would be *least* associated with the Hmong?

Answer: Afghanistan

Formerly from China, the Hmong were a people of Laos' rural hills who largely sided with the United States against the communist Pathet Lao and Viet Cong forces; many Hmong today consider themselves "veterans of the CIA". With the communist victories of the 1970s, the Hmong were largely seen as "enemies of the people" in Laos, and thousands fled to Thailand; many of these would later come to the United States. For a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is the sheer cultural distinctiveness of the Hmong (whose language did not have a consensus written form going into the twentieth century), their experience has been harsh even by refugee standards. For more information about the Hmong, see http://www.learnabouthmong.com/
10. My final chapter (number eleven - chapter ten is actually kind of scary) concerns the history of MY lifetime: the North Atlantic since the 1970s. The prevailing cultural and intellectual currents of this period have stressed the questioning of traditional values and assumptions on matters of race, gender, religion, and values. In essence, whereas someone could comfortably point to white, middle-to-working class nuclear families as a cultural "mainstream" without much challenge fifty years ago, many (if not most) commentators today would question rather or not there IS a mainstream of any sort in the twenty-first century. What term has been widely applied to this type of thought?

Answer: Postmodernism

Among the more intellectually elite (and textually impenetrable) writers on postmodernism was Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), who held that, rather than there being a stable "center" that one could operate from when discerning the truth about something, a proper inquiry would be "decentered", meaning that the truth would change depending on one's perspective. This contrasts with the intellectual movements stemming from the Enlightenment, most of which were built on the supremacy of objective, scientific truth. One notable critic of postmodernism, "Simpsons" character Moe Szyslak, has defined the movement as "weird for the sake of weird." Ironically enough, however, "The Simpsons", whose humor usually depends far less on its central plots than on its peripheral "bricolage" of witty cultural references, can be read as being very postmodern itself.

Thanks for playing! As always, I'd love to hear any comments you might have, especially those that will make this a better quiz. As far as what the book is about, see my profile - but you've been warned, it is not for the faint of heart.
Source: Author stuthehistoryguy

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