Unit 4 Practice Test
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- 1.The revolutions of the late 18th and 19th centuries helped to spread Enlightenment ideas and
- A.
Repudiated socialist and communist philosophies
- B.
Resulted in the weakening of national states because of the growing emphasis on the individual
- C.
Take down Napoleon, who was mad with power
- D.
Strengthened the European control over South America
- E.
Encouraged the consolidation of national states
- 2.The leaders of the French Revolution
- A.
Placed unlimited faith in the potential of the peasants
- B.
Called for the complete reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures
- C.
Accepted the fact that France would always be a democracy
- D.
Created concepts and documents that would later influence the American Revolution
- E.
Were much more conservative than the leaders of the American Revolution
- 3.Which of the following documents were influenced by John Locke’s theory of “consent of the governed”?
- I. The Declaration of Independence
- II. Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
- III. Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
- IV. Napoleon’s Civil Code
- A.
I and IV
- B.
I and III
- C.
II
- D.
II, and III
- E.
I and II
- 4.The Industrial Revolution began in
- A.
France
- B.
The United States
- C.
Great Britain
- D.
Russia
- E.
China
- 5.The Meiji reformers actively copied the western Europeans and Americans because
- A.
Japan had already been divided up into spheres of influence and they wanted to find a way to push the westerners out
- B.
of their desire to make Japan a democratic republic
- C.
those lands had always treated Japan with respect and equality
- D.
The Chinese refused to share their technology with the Japanese
- E.
5. they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one.
- 6.Which of the following was the most important to the British control of India?
- A.
the complete cooperation of the sepoy troops
- B.
The opium trade
- C.
The Suez Canal
- D.
the Berlin Conference
- E.
The Panama Canal
- 7.Social Darwinists believed that
- A.
Powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies
- B.
Only a socialist political and social structure would keep humans from destroying themselves
- C.
a sharp distinction had to be made between the biological and social worlds
- D.
Human beings had reached the point at which competition among nations was no longer necessary
- E.
More powerful nations had to protect weaker ones
- 8.Siam served as a buffer to prevent conflict between nearby
- A.
British Burma and Dutch New Guinea
- B.
Japanese Korea and Russian Manchuria
- C.
American Philippines and French Indochina
- D.
French Indochina and British Borneo
- E.
British Burma and French Indochina
- 9.The Berlin Conference
- A.
Set up ground rules for the colonization of Africa
- B.
Ended the Crimean War
- C.
Set up a timetable for the decolonization of Africa
- D.
Legitimized the German colonization of the Marshall Islands
- E.
Established the Triple Alliance
- 10.The only successful slave revolt in history took place in
- A.
Cuba
- B.
Jamaica
- C.
Haiti
- D.
Brazil
- E.
Nigeria
- 11.The American and French revolutions were both partially caused by
- A.
Problems of royal secession
- B.
High taxation that bred discontent
- C.
Lack of social mobility in the peasant class
- D.
food shortages due to poor harvests
- E.
Church interference
- 12.Which of the following was not one of John Locke’s main ideas?
- A.
rulers derived their authority from the consent of those they governed
- B.
governments were a result of a social contract between the ruler and the ruled
- C.
Although kings did have divine sanction, their subjects maintained personal rights
- D.
individuals retained personal rights to life, liberty, and property
- E.
Subjects have the right to remove their ruler
- 13.Over time, trade unions
- A.
Were completely unsuccessful in improving the conditions of the working class
- B.
Stood out as the most radical critics of industrial society
- C.
Fell under communist control
- D.
reduced the likelihood of a revolution by improving the lives of working people
- E.
Dramatically increased the chances for a revolution through their ties to Marxian socialists.
- 14.Napoleon’s Civil Code
- A.
Gave absolute free speech to French newspaper.
- B.
Was a modern restatement of Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis
- C.
Affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men
- D.
had at its core the radical measures of the Convention
- E.
reduced patriarchal authority and gave more equality to women
- 15.Charles Fourier and Robert Owen were both
- A.
Marxian capitalists
- B.
Utopian socialists
- C.
American industrialists
- D.
famous communists
- E.
European imperialists
- 16.Interchangeable parts were invented by
- A.
Josiah Wedgwood
- B.
George Stephenson
- C.
Eli Whitney
- D.
Henry Ford
- E.
Henry Bessemer
- 17.The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in
- A.
Japan
- B.
Russia
- C.
China
- D.
The Ottoman Empire
- E.
Korea
- 18.During the 17th and 18th centuries, philosophes and other advocates of Enlightenment ideas
- A.
rarely questioned monarchial rule
- B.
began to question long-standing notions of sovereignty
- C.
Believed that the monarchy was functional and well-established
- D.
were forced to be executed on the guillotine
- E.
Were mainly women who sought equality and suffrage
- 19.. The key to social reform in Russia was
- A.
Possessing the leading educational system in Europe
- B.
the abolition of slavery
- C.
The emancipation of the serfs
- D.
The final attainment of equality for women
- E.
The establishment of universal suffrage
- 20.The centerpiece of Sergei Witte’s Russian industrial policy was
- A.
His attempt to copy the rapid industrialization carried out by the Japanese.
- B.
a massive program of railway construction.
- C.
His plan to fund the construction of large factories initially with money made from exporting opium.
- D.
His plan to emancipate the serfs.
- E.
Cooperative trading and intellectual exchange programs with the United States.
- 21.Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?
- A.
Free public education
- B.
Emancipation of women
- C.
Universal suffrage
- D.
Turkish as the official language of the empire
- E.
Equality before the law
- 22.The event that best displayed Japan’s rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the
- A.
Opium War
- B.
Crimean War
- C.
Russo-Japanese War
- D.
3. Russo-Japanese War Sino-Japanese War
- E.
Taiping War
- 23.Marx and Engels proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes. The classes were
- A.
the capitalist and the bourgeoisie
- B.
The workers and the nobility
- C.
The capitalists and the proletariat
- D.
The workers and the peasantry
- E.
The nobility and the middle class
- 24.The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century was
- A.
a socialist-directed economy.
- B.
The factory system
- C.
The guild system
- D.
The putting-out system
- E.
Cottage industry
- 25.Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Social Contract, argued that in every country that sovereign voice in government
- A.
Resided in the army.
- B.
Should be the bishops and archbishops because of their special relationship to God.
- C.
was the king because, despite his faults, he was still of divine appointment.
- D.
Was the members of society acting collectively.
- E.
1. Should be the nobles instead of the king because of their control of the land.
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