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Questions 1-3 refer to the following image: Cartoon from Puck, August 15, 1900 Which nineteenth-century event had forced a submission similar to the one depicted in the cartoon?

Questions 41-44 refer to the following image The Tennis Court Oath The action depicted in the image quickly led to which of the following in revolutionary France?

Questions 41-44 refer to the following image The Tennis Court Oath The action depicted in the image quickly led to which of the following in revolutionary France?

On Monday news reached us that the French* had printed a proclamation in Arabic and had sent it around to be read in public, calling upon Egyptians to obey them. A copy of that document came into my possession and I will quote it here: ‘In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. On behalf of the French Republic which is based upon the foundations of liberty and equality, General Bonaparte addresses all Egyptian people: O ye Egyptians, some may tell you that we have come here to abolish your religion, but that is a lie. The real purpose of our campaign is to restore your rights from your oppressors—the Mamluk** rulers of Egypt. Know that all people are equal and that only differences in the degree of reason, virtue, or knowledge may be used to elevate one person above another. But what reason, virtue, or knowledge do the Mamluks have that gives them the right to claim the most fertile land, the most desirable dwellings, and the highest government positions in Egypt? None whatsoever.’ In that proclamation, their statement ‘In the name of Allah, etc.’ suggests that they agree with Islam. But in reality they are opposed to both Christianity and Islam and do not hold fast to any religion. They are materialists who deny the Hereafter and Resurrection, and who reject Prophethood and religious Messengership. In politics, too, they do not have a single ruler, like other countries, who can speak on their behalf. *In 1798 a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in an attempt to threaten Great Britain’s access to its colonial empire in India. **the ruling class in Egypt at the time, mostly made up of non-Egyptians –Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Egyptian religious scholar and resident of Cairo, eyewitness chronicle of the French occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801/ Which of the following claims does al-Jabarti make about the French?

“I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on the harm of other countries- how much less to China! Of all that China exports to foreign countries, there is not a single thing which is not beneficial to the people…On the other hand, articles coming from the outside of China, what difficulty would there be if we closed the frontier and stopped the trade?… The goods from China carried away by your country not only supply your own consumption and use, but can also be divided up and sold to other countries, producing a triple profit,”  -Lin Zexu, Qing scholar-official in a letter to Queen Victoria of England, 1839 The views expressed in the passage are best seen as evidence of which of the following in Qing society?

Americans . . . who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society as mere consumers. Yet even this status is surrounded with galling restrictions, such as being forbidden to grow European crops, or to store products that are royal monopolies, or to establish factories of a type the Peninsula itself does not possess. To this, add the exclusive trading privileges, even in articles of prime necessity . . . in short, do you wish to know what our future held?–simply the cultivation of the fields of indigo, grain, coffee, sugarcane, cacao, and cotton; cattle raising on the broad plains; hunting wild game in the jungles; digging in the earth to mine its gold. –Simón Bolívar, “Jamaica Letter,” 1815 The spread of revolutionary ideas in South America was most directly a result of which of the following?

An important molecule in sequence-based evolutionary anlayses of microbes are             genes.

An important molecule in sequence-based evolutionary anlayses of microbes are             genes.

Inflammation ________________________________.

THINK: A scientist finds what she thinks is a new species of rodent on a small Pacific island. However, some similar-looking rodents inhabit some nearby islands. She mates the new rodent with the nearby rodents and gets viable (living) but sterile offspring. Why?  [Hint:  2 categories of allopatric speciation are: Dispersal = which occurs when a few members of a species move to a new geographical area Vicariance = which occurs when a natural situation arises to physically divide organisms]