
The subject matter of the Western Civilization II exam is drawn from the following topics. Ability to reach conclusions on the basis of facts.Ability to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant.Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate textual and graphic materials.Ability to identify the causes and effects of major historical events.Understanding important factual knowledge of developments in Western civilization.Questions on the Western Civilization II exam require test takers to demonstrate one or more of the following abilities: Some of these are pretest questions that will not be scored. The exam contains 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Groups of questions may require candidates to interpret, evaluate, or relate the contents of a passage, a map, a picture, or a cartoon to the other information, or to analyze and use the data contained in a graph or table. Test takers may be asked to choose the correct definition of a historical term, select the historical figure whose political viewpoint is described, identify the correct relationship between two historical factors, or detect the inaccurate pairing of an individual with a historical event.


Questions cover European history from the mid-17th century through the post-Second World War period including political, economic, and cultural developments such as scientific thought, the Enlightenment, the French and Industrial Revolutions, and the First and Second World Wars. The Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present exam covers material that is usually taught in the second semester of a two-semester course in Western civilization.
