Friday Test

For those of you who couldn’t make it today, here are the parameters and instructions for the test on Friday (2/13):

I will choose terms from each chapter, roughly 7-10. You will pick twelve (12) to write about, in the same style as the pop quizzes. You have to pick two from each chapter, but the remaining 4 can come from any chapter.

You’ll have the full 50 minutes. I’ll bring the test, as well as paper; all you have to bring is a suitable writing implement — pen, pencil, etc. — and everything you’ve learned since the beginning of the semester.

Also, I handed out paper copies of the study terms for the next test, chapters 19-22. If you’d copied them from the master list previously, you should go back and do it again, as I’ve trimmed it somewhat in the last week.

Final Exam Available

The Final Exam is now available. (thanks for the corrections!) As noted, you have the choice of doing either the take-home or in-class version, but you will have to declare which one you will do the last week of class. Read over the assignments carefully, so that we can address questions as soon as you come back from Thanksgiving Break. Feel free to post questions here, or email me, as well.

Study Terms for Chapters 29 and 30

Chapter 29
Cold War
command economies
communism
counter-colonization
Cultural Revolution
European Union
genocide
globalization
Great Depression
Holocaust
individualism
Josef Stalin
Mao Zedong
Marshall Plan
Martin Luther King
multiculturalism
Négritude
Sputnik
terrorism
Chapter 30
conservationism
consumerism
cyberspace
deforestation
desertification
“Eastern Wisdom”
ecology
environmentalism
ethnobotany
feminism
fundamentalism
futurism
genetically modified organisms
green revolution
greenhouse effect
HIV/AIDS
Liberation theology
microprocessor
public health
renewable energy
Walt Disney

Study Terms for Chapters 27 and 28

Bonus: A good example of the importance of checking your sources online for reliability.

Chapter 27

Albert Einstein
Albert Schweizer
big bang theory
cubism
cultural relativism
Edwin Hubble
Ernest Rutherford
eugenics
existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kurt Gödel
Margaret Mead
Martin Heidegger
Noam Chomsky
paleoanthropology
penicillin
pragmatism
primitivism
quantum mechanics
Sigmund Freud
surrealism
Werner Heisenberg
William James

Chapter 28

Adolf Hitler
Atatürk
atomic bombs
Benito Mussolini
corporatism
decolonization
fascism
First World War
Gamal Abdel Nasser
human rights
isolationism
John Maynard Keynes
Josef Stalin
League of Nations
Manchurian incident
Mohandas Gandhi
Pearl Harbor
Second World War
self-determination
Soviet Union
totalitarianism
trench warfare
Versailles Treaty
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Woodrow Wilson

Study Terms for Chapters 25 and 26

Chapter 25
Belgian Congo
breech loaders
business imperialism
Charles Darwin
civilizing mission
Comte de Gobineau
Ethiopia
indirect rule
John A. Macdonald
Khedive Ismail
machine guns
Maori wars
Monroe Doctrine
Most Favored Nation
Opium Wars
racism
rifled guns
Scramble for Africa
Social Darwinism
South Africa
Trail of Tears
Chapter 26
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alfred Dreyfus
anti-semitism
Chulalongkorn
constitutionalism
democracy
Ethiopia
Jeremy Bentham
Johann Most
John Stuart Mill
José Rizal
Karl Marx
Kulturkampf
Liberia
militarization
public sphere
Secularism
social welfare
US Civil War
utilitarianism
Westernization

Study Terms for Chapters 23 and 24

Since both of these chapters deal with industrialization and its effects, I’m going to do the next test the same way I did the first one: as a single list from which you’ll pick eight terms.

Chapter 23
Andrew Carnegie
Ashio copper mine
canned foods
cholera
fossil fuels
guano
Homestead Act
margarine
Mehmet Ali
militarization
phosphates
railroads
refrigeration
Samuel Smiles
self-strengthening
specialization
steamships
telegraph
total war
Chapter 24
abolition
Arts and Crafts
class struggle
compulsory education
coolies
economies of scale
factories
Haiti
Japonisme
Karl Marx
migration
new rich
Oshio Heihachiro
palm-oil
paternalism
philanthropy
proletariat
slavery
socialists
urban planning
urbanization

Study Terms for Chapters 21 and 22

The full list is here.

Chapter 21
Alessandro Malaspina
American Revolution
Brazil
creolism
Dutch East Indies
juntas
Marathas
overseas Chinese
Qianlong Emperor
Robert Clive
Seven Years’ War
Sioux
Thomas Jefferson
Wahhabism
Xinjiang
Chapter 22
Adam Smith
anti-clericalism
Baron de Montesquieu
Catherine the Great
Code Napoleon
Denis Diderot
Edmund Burke
Encyclopedia
French Revolution
George Friedrich Handel
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Immanuel Kant
James Cook
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Johann Gottfried Herder
laissez-faire
Napoleon Bonaparte
noble savages
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Romanticism
Voltaire

Test 2 Results

The high score without extra credit was 30. This makes the calculations of lower grades pretty easy: nice round numbers.

Grade Minimum Distribution
A+ 30
A 28.5 15%
A- 27
B+ 24.5
B 22 45%
B- 19.5
C+ 17
C 14.5 35%
C- 12
D+ 9.5
D 7 5%
D- 4.5
F 0

The most popular terms were:

  1. Columbian Exchange
  2. maize
  3. smallpox & Martin Luther
  4. sugar
  5. weeds

The least popular terms were Manchu, Siberia and Rene Descartes.

Test 1 results

The most popular term this time around was “monsoon” — almost everyone picked it. “Pepper’ and “Aztec” tied for second place, followed closely by “humanism”, “joint-stock company” and “imperialism.” The least popular term was “Siberia” — almost 90% of you avoided it — with “Mughal”, “Vasco da Gama” and “Mali” also in the single-digits.

Just a reminder: memorizing the glossary definition won’t get you much beyond C-range, if that. Memorizing the paragraph in which the term first appears only works sometimes, but usually there’s a lot of context if you read futher back and forward from there. Also, you really don’t want to ignore what I say in class: Part of my job is to provide further context and significance….. Conversely, what I say in class is intended to supplement the textbook, not replace it.

The high score in the class was 29.5 out of a possible 32. So here’s how the grades come out:

grade minimum score distribution
A+ 29.5
A 27.5 A-level: 18%
A- 26.6
B+ 24.2
B 21.6 B-level: 52%
B- 19.2 median score: B
C+ 16.8
C 14.2 C-level: 20%
C- 11.8
D+ 9.4
D 6.8 D-level: 10%
D- 4.4
F 0

Here are some sample answers which scored 4 out of 4. I’m not endorsing copying their form or style, nor are they necessarily perfect, but they get the job done: cover the ground and get to the point.
Continue reading