CLEP Western Civilization II Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

Which example most directly illustrates July Revolution of 1830?

An artist celebrates intense feeling and the dramatic power of nature. A reformer designs model communities organized around shared production. An attempt at renewed royal restriction provokes a change of monarch. Diplomatic congresses seek cooperation among leading European states.

Question 2

A student writes the following study note. Which heading is the most precise fit? Urban militants pressed demands for political participation and economic protection.

Sans-culottes Old Regime estates Great Fear Levee en masse

Question 3

Which statement most accurately describes Hitler's appointment and consolidation?

Forced collectivization transformed Soviet agriculture through coercion and severe disruption. The Depression caused severe contraction, unemployment, and political instability. Locarno improved diplomatic relations through guarantees concerning Germany's western borders. Hitler became chancellor in 1933 and dismantled democratic constraints.

Question 4

Which statement most accurately describes Berlin blockade and airlift?

Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered approximately six million Jews and persecuted other groups. Europe became divided between rival blocs led by the United States and Soviet Union. Western powers supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948-1949. Post-1989 Europe experienced integration alongside renewed national conflicts and political divisions.

Question 5

Which term or topic best matches the following description? Repeated attacks gain little territory despite enormous casualties.

Russian Civil War Eastern Front mobility Lenin's April Theses Trench warfare

Question 6

Which statement most accurately describes Wollstonecraft's educational equality?

Beccaria criticized torture and arbitrary punishment and favored proportionate penalties. Deism affirmed a creator while emphasizing reason and natural order over revealed doctrine. Wollstonecraft connected women's subordination with unequal education and opportunities. Locke defended government by consent and protection of natural rights.

Question 7

Which statement most accurately describes Triple Alliance?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed a prewar alliance. The 1870-1871 conflict facilitated German unification and weakened France. The Crimean War exposed Russian weaknesses and disrupted great-power cooperation. Italian unification consolidated multiple states while leaving regional divisions.

Question 8

Which term or topic best matches the following description? A revolutionary text bases legitimate political authority on the nation and rights.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Estates-General of 1789 Flight to Varennes Tennis Court Oath

Question 9

Which example most directly illustrates Spanish Civil War?

A military uprising develops into a war ending with Franco's victory. A movement rejects liberal pluralism and glorifies a unified nation under a strong leader. Peasants are compelled into collective farms while resistance is violently suppressed. European states seek reconciliation through a negotiated security arrangement in 1925.

Question 10

Match each description to its most specific topic, in the order shown. I. Western and Soviet-led states organize separate collective-defense structures. II. Fighter defense and radar help oppose sustained aerial assault.

I: NATO and Warsaw Pact; II: Prague Spring I: NATO and Warsaw Pact; II: Battle of Britain I: Holocaust; II: Battle of Britain I: Battle of Britain; II: NATO and Warsaw Pact

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