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A P European History Test Prep
DBQ & Free Response Questions
For DBQ’s Always:
1. Provide an appropriate, explicitly stated thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question and does NOT simply restate the question.
2. Discuss a majority of the documents individually and specifically.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the basic meaning of a majority of the documents.
4. Support the thesis with appropriate interpretations of a majority of the documents.
5. Analyze point of view or bias in at least three documents.
6. Analyze the documents by explicitly grouping them in at least three appropriate ways.
2000 DBQ: Using specific examples from the documents below, analyze the purposes that rituals and festivals served in traditional European life. Free Response
A. Compare and contrast the political and economic policies of Joseph Stalin in the period before the Second world War and those of Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991).
B. “Leadership determines the fate of a country.” Evaluate this quotation in terms of Spain’s experience under Philip II.
C. Discuss three developments that enabled Great Britain to achieve a dominant economic position between 1700 and 1830.
D. Evaluate how the ideas of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud challenged Enlightenment assumptions about human behavior and the role of reason.
E. How accurately do the lines of poetry below reflect gender roles for European men and women in the late nineteenth century?
Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and women from the heart: Man to command woman to obey
F. Explain the development of the scientific method in the seventeenth century and the impact of scientific thinking on traditional sources of authority.
2001 DBQ: Analyze the ways in which various people viewed the character and condition of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during the Greek movement for independence in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Free Response
A.
DBQ & Free Response Questions
For DBQ’s Always:
1. Provide an appropriate, explicitly stated thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question and does NOT simply restate the question.
2. Discuss a majority of the documents individually and specifically.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the basic meaning of a majority of the documents.
4. Support the thesis with appropriate interpretations of a majority of the documents.
5. Analyze point of view or bias in at least three documents.
6. Analyze the documents by explicitly grouping them in at least three appropriate ways.
2000 DBQ: Using specific examples from the documents below, analyze the purposes that rituals and festivals served in traditional European life. Free Response
A. Compare and contrast the political and economic policies of Joseph Stalin in the period before the Second world War and those of Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991).
B. “Leadership determines the fate of a country.” Evaluate this quotation in terms of Spain’s experience under Philip II.
C. Discuss three developments that enabled Great Britain to achieve a dominant economic position between 1700 and 1830.
D. Evaluate how the ideas of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud challenged Enlightenment assumptions about human behavior and the role of reason.
E. How accurately do the lines of poetry below reflect gender roles for European men and women in the late nineteenth century?
Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and women from the heart: Man to command woman to obey
F. Explain the development of the scientific method in the seventeenth century and the impact of scientific thinking on traditional sources of authority.
2001 DBQ: Analyze the ways in which various people viewed the character and condition of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during the Greek movement for independence in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Free Response
A.