AP World History Exam: Classical China
This quiz covers a wide variety of topics and tests a persons knowledge of the qin, Han, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. This quiz is made by a student who is taking an enhanced version of AP World History.
- 1.By encouraging settlers to move into the Yangtze river valley, the Zhou rulers...
- A.
Provoked centuries of conflict with outside invaders
- B.
Produced population growth but also complicated problems of central rule
- C.
Promoted the early cultivation of wood pulp for paper products
- D.
Promulgated diseases like yellow fever, the kept population growth in check
- E.
Programmed future generations of Chinese to obey the dictates of the highly centralized state
- 2.Confucianism and Daoism...
- A.
Were fully sanctioned doctrines of the Qin and Han emperors
- B.
Are religions, which developed in Classical china
- C.
Emphasized the needs of the individual over the welfare of the state
- D.
Had little influence upon China until the late 900's CE
- E.
Originiated as responses to societal problems during times of disruption
- 3.Confucian social relationships...
- A.
Established a hierarchy and insisted upon reciprocal duties of the people
- B.
Taught its practitioners to seek inner harmony with the natural way
- C.
Used rewards for correct behavior and punishments for transgressions
- D.
Were based upon universal love and forgiveness
- E.
Stressed the welfare and interests of the state
- 4.The doctrine sponsored by the Qin dynasty...
- A.
Encouraged education, new ideas, and tolerated criticism of the state.
- B.
Broke the power of vassals in order to enhance the power of the emperor
- C.
Paid the northern tribute to prevent invasion
- D.
Tolerated local lords performing functions for the central government
- E.
Used reciprocal social arrangements and scholar-officials as bureaucrats
- 5.Which of the following groups would have likely supported the Qin dynasty?
- A.
Confucian Scholars
- B.
Peasant Laborers
- C.
Trained bureaucrats from non-aristocratic groups
- D.
Traditional aristocrtats who lost their lands and posessions
- E.
Daoist priests
- 6.During the Han Dynasty, scholar officials...
- A.
Lost their governmental offices to aristocrats
- B.
Came inreasingly from the merchant and peasant classes
- C.
Utilized Legalism as a ruling measure
- D.
Insisted on harsh law codes to maintain control
- E.
Insistuted a system of examination to prepare professional civil servants
- 7.Although they varied greatly in wealth and social status in China,...
- A.
The commoners, especially the peasants, remained the largest group
- B.
The scholar bureaucrats cooperated to limit the influence of the ruler
- C.
Aristocrats owned all of the land
- D.
Women had many legal rights and protections
- E.
Urban artisans and merchants dominated chinese society
- 8.Chinese women in the classical age...
- A.
Were free to choose the men they could marry
- B.
Could become scholar-gentry provided they passed the state exams
- C.
Were legally subordinated to fathers and husbands at all class levels
- D.
Dominated the intellectual and artistic activities of China
- E.
Vaired greatly in status, influence, and rights
- 9.Despite their material sucess and increased wealth,
- A.
Foreigners were prohibited from settling in China
- B.
Chinese rulers were isolated from the masses and did not intervene with the government
- C.
Chinese aristocrats had no influence within the government
- D.
Merchants in China ranked below peasants and had little societal influence
- E.
The scholar-gentry were prohibited from owning land
- 10.Chinese belief systems differ from single deity religions and polytheism most in
- A.
Their secular emphasis and lack of identifiable gods to worship
- B.
Emphasizing correct behavior and performance of rituals and rites
- C.
Concentrating on the need for the gods' saving grace
- D.
Supporting a relative legal and social equality for women
- E.
Deifying nature
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