5 Steps to a 5TM AP European History

AP European History Practice Test 1, Section I, Part A (^) ‹ 219

32. Voltaire was participating in what cultural
    movement?
    A. The Scientific Revolution
    B. The Reformation
    C. The Enlightenment
    D. The Romantic Movement


33. From the quotation, what becomes clear about
    Voltaire?
    A. Voltaire was an atheist.
    B. Tolerance was a value of the Enlightenment.
    C. Voltaire believed tolerance violated the laws
    of nature.
    D. Voltaire believed tolerance was uniquely
    English.

Questions 32–33 refer to the following quotation:

What is tolerance?... We are full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon our follies. This is the last law

of nature.... Of all religions, the Christian ought doubtless to inspire the most tolerance, although hitherto the

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Voltaire, Philosophic Letters on the English, 1733

Questions 34–36 refer to the following passage:

For a long time, educated Germans answered it in the positive, initially by laying claim to a special German mission,

then, after the collapse of 1945, by criticizing Germany’s deviation from the West. Today, the negative view is pre-

dominant. Germany did not, according to the now prevailing opinion, differ from the great European nations to an

extent that would justify speaking of a “unique German path.” And, in any case, no country on earth ever took what

can be described as the “normal path.”

Heinrich August Winkler, Germany: The Long Road West, Volume 1, 2006

34. What does the passage indicate about the author’s
    point of view?
    A. The notion of a unique German path in
    history has never been the prevailing public
    opinion in Germany.
    B. Winkler advocates a Marxist view of German
    history.
    C. There has been a longstanding debate in
    Germany about the existence of a unique
    German path in history.
    D. The question of a unique German path in
    history has been answered once and for all.


35. Before 1945,
    . A there was significant belief in a unique
    German mission in history
    B. almost no one believed in a unique German
    mission in history
    C. the historian Heinrich August Winkler
    argued that there was a unique German mis-
    sion in history
    D. the historian Heinrich August Winkler
    opposed the notion that there was a unique
    German mission in history
    36. The belief that Germany had a unique mission
    in history
    A. resulted from Germany’s defeat in World
    War II
    B. was unaffected by Germany’s defeat in World
    War II
    C. was proven correct by Germany’s defeat in
    World War II
    D. was discredited by Germany’s defeat in World
    War II

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