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Questions 33-35 refer to the following passage There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. Will you youths of England make your country again a royal throne of kings, a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace; mistress of learning and of the Arts, faithful guardian of time-honoured principles? This is what England must do or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her feet on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and their first aim is to advance the power of England by land and sea –John Ruskin (British Critic), Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University, 1870 Although Ruskin called for increased action, which of the following European states saw its influence and involvement in imperialism decline?

Question 45-47 refer to the following image Jesuits in Chinese Dress at the Chinese Emperor’s Court The increase in the intensification of exchange between the hemispheres resulted in which of the following?

Questions 39-41 Refer to the following image: Port of Lisbon, Portugal  What method did European rulers use to control their domestic and colonial economies?

Questions 33-35 refer to the following passage There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. Will you youths of England make your country again a royal throne of kings, a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace; mistress of learning and of the Arts, faithful guardian of time-honoured principles? This is what England must do or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her feet on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and their first aim is to advance the power of England by land and sea –John Ruskin (British Critic), Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University, 1870 All of the following are plausible motives for the imperialist ideas conveyed in Ruskin’s lecture excerpt one. Which one?

Questions 7-9 refer to the following passage Brave wives and daughters-in-law, untrammeled by the presence of their menfolk, could voice their own bitterness . . . encourage their poor sisters to do likewise, and thus eventually bring to the village-wide gatherings the strength of “half of China” as the more enlightened women, very much in earnest, like to call themselves. By “speaking pains to recall pains,” the women found that they had as many if not more grievances than the men, and that given a chance to speak in public, they were as good at it as their fathers and husbands. –Woman in Post–World War II Communist China Who is “half of China?”

Question 45-47 refer to the following image Jesuits in Chinese Dress at the Chinese Emperor’s Court In the period from 1450 to 1750, which of the following factors contributed most directly to the spread and reform of existing religions and creation of syncretic belief systems?

Questions 10-12 refer to the following political cartoon

An example of how the Core Problem 2: Improving the Quality of Social Programs occurs in the welfare sector is when a consumer ______.

Micro policy advocates may decide to progress from micro policy advocacy to macro policy advocacy if ______.

In the organizational chart, the ______ hires the executive director and examines the agency’s budget.