BRIT.CIV Exams

SAAD DAHLEB University, BLIDA Feb 8th, 2010

English Department

2nd Year LMD.

British CivilizationFirst Term Exam

FIRST TERM EXAM


Choose TWO topics from the following and write a short coherent paragraph:

1)- Millions united in support of the Chartist Movement in the mid-19th century demanding a raft of democratic rights for the working classes. Discuss

2)- The Irish Potato famine coupled with British ignorance and insensitivity towards conditions in Ireland led to Irish aspirations for independence.

3)- How did the loss of the thirteen colonies in North America reshape British colonial policies and change Britain’s attitudes towards the empire?

Second Term Exam



I - Give a brief definition to each of the following:

1) Lewis and Clark Expedition.

2) Louisiana Purchase.

3) Monroe Doctrine.



II- Choose TWO topics from the following and write a short coherent paragraph:

1). “…Christianity approved servitude, and that the Law of Moses had both assumed and positively established slavery…It is the order of nature and of God that the being of superior faculties and knowledge and therefore of superior power, should control and dispose of those who are inferior”.

Southerner Thomas Roderick Dew 1832, The Cotton Kingdom, W.E.Odd(1919)

Discuss

2).John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States(1825-1829), wrote in 1811: “The whole continent appears to be destined…to be peopled by one nation, The acquisition of a definite line of boundary to the Pacific forms a great epoch in our history.”

In the light of this Quotation, how did Manifest Destiny play an important part in justifying American Westwards Expansion?

3). What are the cause of the fight between North and South that finally erupted in secession and Civil War?