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(A) The Irish potato famine of the 1840s
(B) The sinking of the Lusitania
(C) The crowning of Napoleon Bonaparte as
emperor
(D) The wording of the Magna Carta
(E) The date of birth of the present British
monarch
Questions 76–78 refer to the following:
(A) Poland
(B) England
(C) Spain
(D) Italy
(E) France
76. While the United States was engaged in its Civil
War, which country used its army to establish
Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico?
77. Which country disappeared from the map of
Europe in 1795?
78. Which country was finally unified during the
second half of the nineteenth century?
79. Society provides an arena for competition in
which the most industrious, ingenious, and in-
telligent people are the most successful. By a
process akin to natural selection, civilization nec-
essarily advances to higher and more complex
forms.
The position outlined by the statements above
is often referred to as
(A) mercantilism
(B) protectionism
(C) imperialism
(D) Social Darwinism
(E) Marxism
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■ SAT II Subject Tests
80. When the United States established formal dip-
lomatic relations with the People’s Republic
of China in 1979, it also withdrew diplomatic
recognition from the government of
(A) Cambodia
(B) Okinawa
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Sumatra
(E) Taiwan
81. The Marshall Plan was adopted in large mea-
sure because the United States