Questionnaire

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HIST 152 - KNOWLEDGE SURVEY - PROFESSOR ZIEGLER - SPRING '09

This is a Knowledge Survey rather than a "test." There are no right or wrong answers. While you will not be graded on this survey, please be very candid in your responses!

By completing this survey, both at the beginning and at the end of the semester, your instructor will be able to gauge your initial level of knowledge and then measure the amount of knowledge you gain during the semester. This information will help your instructor modify and improve the course.

Read each statement carefully and then choose a response based on the following instructions:

Mark A as your response to the item if you are not confident in your skills in the area and do not feel you can adequately demonstrate these skills on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark B as your response to the item if you feel somewhat confident that you are reasonably skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a reasonable level on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark C as your response to the item if you feel very confident that you are highly skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a high level on a test/essay/research paper.

Is this Survey being conducted at the BEGINNING or at the END of the Semester?
Beginning of Semester	End of Semester

Which class are you in:
T R 10:00 AM	T 5:00 PM

CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL TERMS/CONCEPTS -

YOUR ABILITY TO DEFINE, DESCRIBE, CITE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Your skill level in area:

	A: Low	B: Modest	C: High
- Hernan Cortez and Montezuma
- Henry the 8th and the Church of England
- Machiavelli and "The Prince"
- Martin Luther and his Doctrine of Faith
- Copernicus and the heliocentric model
- John Locke and "On Civil Government"
- Society of Jesus
- Louis the 14th and royal absolutism
- Committee of Public Safety and Reign of Terror
- Metternich's Congress System
- Germ theory and quinine
- 'White Man's Burden'
- Seven Years War (significance)
- Meiji Restoration
- Golden Horde
- Peter the Great
- British East India Co. and sepoys
- Opium War and Treaty of Nanjing
- Bismarck's Berlin Conference
- Suleiman and Sunni orthodoxy
- Woodrow Wilson and the 14 Points
- Weimar Republic and Versailles Diktat
- Long march and CCP
- Zionism and Balfour Declaration
- Churchill's 'iron-curtain'
- Marshall Plan
- Gorbachev and peristroika
- Who and the Green Revolution

CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL ESSAY WRITING

FOR THE FOLLOWING POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS, rate your confidence in being able to address the main points in a clear, concise, and organized essay answer of 1 1/2 - 2 pages.

	A: Low	B: Modest	C: High
- Describe the 'new economy' that emerged in Western Europe in the Modern Era. Contrast the Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) values, institutions, and policies, with the English and how they were reflected in their American colonial conquests and practices.
- Describe the main features and intellectual and historical consequences of the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation on European society, citing important individuals and their contributions.
- Describe and explain the key ideas and theorists of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and how they shaped the 'modern mind'.
- Explain the basic ideas and theories of Machiavelli in "The Prince", and relate them to France under Louis the 14th and England under Elizabeth I to William and Mary. What role did religion play in each country's politics and life?
- Describe the causes, stages, and effects of the French Revolution and (British) Industrial Revolution. Also, briefly outline the effects of the 'new nationalism' in Eastern and Southern Europe.
- Summarize the historical development of the United States and Japan. How did these two nations resist Europe and come into conflict with each other?
- Compare and contrast the Indian and Chinese responses to the West, and the stages of Western take-over, and their consequences.
- Briefly summarize the effects and impact of World War I on the European nations, and how the war produced Left and Right variations of Totalitarianism.
- Briefly outline the stages of 'Decolonization' in Asia, and the Middle East following the world wars, and explain how the wars contributed to this.
- Summarize the course of World War II and its consequences, especially the rise of the Superpowers and resulting Cold War.
- Describe the major events of the Cold War, and explain the reasons for the US/Western victory and Soviet/communist collapse. How has Globalization changed the World Order? After reviewing text and notes, select the 5 most important Ideas, Inventions, or Institutions the West has given the world, and why.

Mahalo for completing the HIST 152 Knowledge Survey!