HIST 152 RICHARD LIGHTNER - KNOWLEDGE SURVEY PRE-TEST SPRING '07
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 A PRE OR POST TEST? PRE-TEST POST-TEST


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
Manifest Destiny
Meiji Restoration
Vladimir Lenin
Weimar Republic
The Great Depression
Sun Yat-sen
Joseph Stalin
Stalingrad
Auschwitz
African National Congress
Mohandas K (Mahatma) Gandhi
iron curtain
nonaligned nations
Cultural Revolution
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin Crisis
Tet Offensive
Mutually Assured Destruction
Palestine Liberation Organization

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

Discuss and compare the course of the American, the French, and the Haitian revolutions, and analyze the reasons for and significance of the different outcomes of these three revolutions.
Compare the political challenges faced by Latin American and English-speaking North American nations in the nineteenth century.
Explain three of the extermal and internal challenges that weakened the Qing Empire in the ninetheenth century.
Analyze the causes and consequences of the Depression and relate them to the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany.
Describe and analyze the causes and significance of the Russian Revolutions and Lenin's policies in the Soviet Union.
Assess the causes of the Cold War and its political and enviromental consequences for Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the two superpowers.

GLOBAL/MULTICULTURAL SKILLS

A: Low B: Modest C: High

Explain the process of decolonization and be able to illustrate the variations in that process by reference to concrete examples.
Demonstrate understanding of the historical roots of current world events.

Mahalo for completing the HIST 152 Knowledge Survey!