Euro-Islam represents which of these?
A) a blending of European and Muslim traditions
B) the rejection of Western values by European Muslims
C) the assimilation of Muslims into Christian culture
D) the blending of Christian and Muslim traditions
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The policy of lustration in eastern Europe had the goal of ________.
A) wiping out the communist past
B) healing old divisions
C) continuing the dominance of the Communist Party
D) ending communist rule in eastern Europe
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What is the dominant pattern of postmodern religious life?
A) an increasing turn to Christianity as a unifying cultural bond
B) the replacement of Christianity with Islam across Europe
C) the weakening but persistence of Christian churches
D) the disappearance of many mainline Protestant faiths in Western Europe
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Which of these was the fastest growing religion in western Europe in the late 1900s?
A) Islam
B) Methodism
C) Mormonism
D) Buddhism
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Which of these triggered a debt crisis in Europe after 2008?
A) the U.S. mortgage crisis
B) the end of the Cold War
C) the collapse of the British economy
D) inflation
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Which of these played an especially strong role in the Polish Solidarity movement?
A) the Catholic Church
B) rural laborers
C) the Communist Party
D) foreign supporters
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After the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, women in East Germany ________.
A) lost political power
B) gained political parity with men for the first time
C) dominated the parliaments in Hungary and Poland
D) were guaranteed at least 30 percent of seats in the new parliaments
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The dominant cultural trend of the late 1900s and early 2000s is _______.
A) postmodernism
B) realism
C) modernism
D) romanticism
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Euro-Islam is best considered a _______ Islamism.
A) rejection of
B) reconciliation with
C) form of
D) radical version of
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The gap between the North and South refers to the ________.
A) gulf between the Have and Have-not nations of the world
B) gap between Islam and Christianity
C) gulf between capitalism and communism
D) environmental crisis worldwide
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