AP World History Chapters 18/19 Reading Quiz

Which of the following gave Europeans an advantage in their encounters with people in Asia and Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century?

The superior organization and discipline of European militaries

In the nineteenth century, European interest in expanding overseas markets was driven by a desire to

sell surplus manufactured goods

Which of the following highlights the relationship between imperialism and nationalism?

Colonies as symbols of "Great Power" status

Which of the following was a consequence of the emphasis on cash-crop agriculture in European colonies?

The vulnerability of African and Asian farmers to price fluctuations in the international market

Which of the following reflects a new element in European views of non-Europeans in the nineteenth century?

The belief that the racial inferiority of non-Europeans could be scientifically proven

Which of the following reflects the effect of colonial rule in Africa on the lives of women?

Women of impoverished families became heads of household in the absence of men

Which of the following characterizes the response of most Asian and African societies to European colonial rule in the nineteenth century?

Accommodation for those who saw colonial rule as advantageous and resistance for those who viewed colonial rule as oppressive

How did colonial rule alter ways of working in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century?

More people worked on public projects for free

Which of the following European colonial views shaped the development of African identity in the nineteenth century?

The notion of an Africa divided into tribes

What played a more important role in distinguishing rulers from their colonial subjects in the imperialism of the nineteenth-century in earlier instances of imperialism?

Race

In the imperialism of the nineteenth century, how did the number of European settlers in African and Asian colonies generally affect the extent of racial segregation and discrimination?

Colonies with a large European settler population more racial discrimination and racial segregation

Which of the following describes the model for social development preferred by Europeans for their colonies?

Traditional rural societies with their established authorities and social hierarchies

The spread of Christianity in Africa was facilitated by its association with

modern education

In the nineteenth century, Europeans and American viewed imperialism as

a "civilizing mission"

How did Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution influence Western imperialism?

They were used to justify the displacement or destruction of "weak races"

How did the spread of Western education affect colonial society?

It created a new elite who saw themselves as a modernizing vanguard in the regeneration of their socieites

How were the colonial takeovers of India and Indonesia during the lone nineteenth century similar?

In both, colonial conquest grew of earlier interaction with European trading firms

Which of the following characterized the "scramble for Africa" that led to the partition of nearly all of Africa among European colonial powers?

The peaceful negotiations among the competing European states over " who got what"

Which of the following represents the imperialist actions of a country outside of Europe?

Japan's takeover of Taiwan and Korea

European colonial rule in the nineteenth century generally depended upon and reinforced the power of which segment of Asian and African societies?

the most conservative

Which of the following is an example of resistance to colonial rule in the nineteenth century?

The Indian Rebellion

Which of the following was a distinctive feature of Europeans colonial rule in the nineteenth century?

the counting and classification of colonial populations

Which of the following reflects a contradiction in Western imperialism in the nineteenth century?

European reluctance to encourage modernization in their colonies

What elements of the modernizing process did colonial rule convey on colonies?

Communication and transportation infrastructure

Which of the following was a consequence of nineteenth-century European imperialism on the colonial societies of Asia and Africa?

The integration of Asian and African economies into a global network of exchange centered in Europe

What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century?

It reversed the trade imbalance in favor in Britain

Which of the following was a consequence of the Taiping Uprising?

The provincial gentry consolidating their power at the expense of the central state

Which of the following reflects the goal of the policies introduced by the Chinese state in the 1860s and 1870s to address the problems facing China?

To reinvigorate China by selectively borrowing from the West

Critics of industrialization who argue that the Industrial Revolution was a failure generally base their interpretation which of the following criterion?

Preservation of the environment

Which of the following contributed to China's problems in the nineteenth century?

The state's failure to maintain flood control and public security

Islam retained a hold on its civilization in the twentieth century more firmly than Confucianism did in china because Islamic civilizaiton

had many independent centers

Which of the following was an anti-foreign movement that erupted in northern China at the turn of the twentieth century and seriously weakened the Qing dynasty?

The Boxer Uprising

What was a result of the reform program launched by the Japanese leadership in the late nineteenth century?

A dramatic transformation of the social structure of Japan

What did the Young Turks advocate?

A militantly secular Turkish national state

Which of the following was a target for attack in the new nationalism that emerged in China at the turn of the twentieth century?

The Qing dynasty

What could countries with a sphere of influence in China do within their respective spheres?

Build railroads

The capitulations between European countries and the Ottoman Empire were similar to

the unequal treaties between European countries and China

Which of the following contributed to the contraction of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?

Nationalists-inspired independence movement in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania

In what respect were Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century?

Both were semi-colonies within the informal empires of Europe

How did Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 affect the Ottoman Empire?

The Ottoman Empire lost Egypt as a province

Which of the following was a goal of the Young Ottomans?

The establishment of a European-style democratic, constitutional regime

In the nineteenth century, which group in the Ottoman Empire advocated a program of radical secularization and modernization along European lines?

Young Turks

Which was the only country outside of Europe and North America to successfully launch its own Industrial Revolution?

Japan

The many rules and regulations issued by the Tokugawa shogunate reflect its goal to

freeze Japanese society in the interests of stability

Which of the following reflects the combination for foreign and Japanese elements characteristic of Meiji reforms in the late nineteenth century?

The urbanization of Japanese society

What did the United States expect to gain by sending a naval fleet to Japan in 1853?

The opening of Japanese ports for trade

How did leadership that emerged after the Meji restoration in Japan respond to the threat of Western imperialism?

They used Western models to transform Japan

In what way was Japan in a better position than China or the Ottoman Empire in its encounter with Western imperialism?

Japan was of less interest to the Western powers

Which of the following reflects the combination of foreign and Japanese elements characteristic of Meji forms in the late nineteenth century?

The Meji constitution

Which of the following events established Japan as an economic, political, and military competitor in Asia?

The Ruso-Japanese War

All of these could be considered "signs" of a patriarchal society except

divorce laws that split right equally between men and women

According to the reading "Family Instructions for the Miu Lineage" all would be considered to be the first tenets of a person's good character except

to be consumed by current customs

In the reading "Family Instructions for the Miu Lineage", what is the proper order of respect in the family?

parents, brothers, wives, children

According to the article "Qing Law Code on Marriage, 1644-1810" all were reasons that a husband could legally divorce his wife except

the wife having no living family

What was considered to be "western European marriage patterns"

the practice of waiting to marry until later in adulthood