Question 1
The European aristocracy responded to the adversity of the great plague by
A) seeking to lower wages by legal means, especially for farm laborers.
B) producing only the most basic foodstuffs, such as grain.
C) petitioning kings to order the relocation of laborers.
D) forming agricultural cooperatives linking landowners, laborers, and city consumers.
E) investing in trade and commerce rather than agricultural production.
Question 2
Which of the following is true about the Homestead Act?
A) Women were not allowed to receive land.
B) It provided fifty acres of land.
C) It was only open to U.S. citizens.
D) It was open to heads of households who were twenty-one years old.
E) None of these are correct.
Question 3
Economically, the great plague and the crises of the fourteenth century
A) devastated peasants but not nobles.
B) brought an economic boom to landlords.
C) caused only minor changes in agricultural practices.
D) raised wages because of a scarcity of labor.
E) had little impact.
Question 4
The U.S. Geological Survey was founded in
A) 1876.
B) 1877.
C) 1878.
D) 1879.
E) 1880.
Question 5
The term ars moriendi means
A) the art of dying.
B) the beauty of death.
C) the triumph of life.
D) the art of living well
E) the divine artist
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