FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE This study guide is provided to give you
an overall idea of the content and procedures for the semester’s concluding
test (worth 20% of the course grade). Content has been selected from weeks five
through fifteen (inclusive). For full details, consult the PowerPoint
presentations, additional lecture notes, and other sources, as desired. The final ex
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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
This study guide is provided to give you
an overall idea of the content and procedures for the semester’s concluding
test (worth 20% of the course grade). Content has been selected from weeks five
through fifteen (inclusive). For full details, consult the PowerPoint
presentations, additional lecture notes, and other sources, as desired.
The final exam is scheduled to take place
for your section on:
Tuesday, May 16,
13, 5 p.m. – 6:50 p.m., in our classroom.
Although the projected time to complete
the required part of this exam will be about 45 minutes, you are invited to use
the entire class period if you need it.
You will bring with you a pen
(black/dark blue ink) or pencil (dark lead), an unmarked examination book
(“blue book” or “green book,” large or small) that I will examine just prior to
distribution of the exam and (if used) your crib notes. DO NOT WRITE in the
examination book prior to the exam, as this may be regarded as cheating, and
may result in substantial penalties! However, you will be allowed to bring to
the test one crib sheet (notes), sized
8 ½” x 11,” with content on ONE side only.
Feel free to write important facts and an outline of your answers on the
FRONT side of the crib sheet, as well as a list of your sources (back side is
ONLY for sources). But do not copy verbatim your answers into your
exam book.
You will be responsible for
responding to short answer options, based on content from weeks five through fifteen (inclusive). Although you
should do your best with mechanical aspects (spelling, grammar, punctuation,
capitalization, word forms), the emphasis will be on strong organization of
content, reliable information, and sound analysis. No credit will be awarded for extra answers or for choosing topics not
on this list. No substitutions! This study guide is designed to help you
to select a topic that’s narrow enough in scope for a short (two or three
paragraphs, or even longer), yet impressive, world history composition. I am
not looking for citations (footnotes, endnotes or parenthetical citations) for
this assignment. However, you MUST include a list of ALL sources
(bibliography) used in order to avoid the charge of plagiarism! When you
are done writing, you will need to turn in your blue book, crib notes, and the
exam prompt. Selecting ANY TWO items from the list, answer the following
question below.
Question: In your
opinion, what are two topics from weeks five through fifteen that have been
historically important? Justify your answers with specific information.
Absolutism Martin Luther
Jesuits Voltaire
Isaac Newton Maria Merian
[US] Bill of
Rights Olaudah Equiano
French
Revolution Benito Juarez
How
the Other Half Lives Second
Industrial Revolution
Scopes “Monkey”
Trial Mohandas K. (“Mahatma”) Gandhi
Berlin
Conference/Partition of Africa Indian Mutiny (Sepoy Rebellion) of 1857
Taiping
Rebellion Meiji Restoration
Ending (impact of)
Opium War Holocaust
Manhattan
Project
Guernica
Cuban Missile
Crisis
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Joseph
McCarthy
Silent Spring
Climate
change
Exxon Valdez
“Moonlight”
[film]
Marriage equality
Michaela
Mendelsohn Women’s March on Washington
Human
trafficking
Malala Yousafzai
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