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Question 1

Which of the following correctly characterizes the penny press?
 
  a. Penny newspapers were affiliated with a political party and relied on politicians for a great deal of theircontent.
 b. The penny press had no hired reporters, and their content was based solely on readers' letters.
  c. Rather than relying on subscriptions and political contributions for their revenue, penny newspapers weresold by newsboys on the street and earned money from advertising.
 d. Penny newspapers catered primarily to wealthy urbanites and covered mostly financial and commercialnews.

Question 2

In Germany, Volkish thinkers
 
  a. considered the ancient German tribes as an inferior stage of German development when compared to Rome.
  b. celebrated the achievements of German industrialization.
  c. identified parliamentary democracy as a foreign idea that corrupted the pure German spirit.
  d. believed that the humanist outlook of the German Enlightenment and liberalism manifested the true German spirit.
  e. were criticized by university professor Wilhelm von Riehl and Julius Langbehn.



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