World History Multiple choice questions

Which of the following was a consequence of the 1907 financial crisis in the United States?

	Investment in railroads declined drastically.
	It showed how quickly national financial matters could become international affairs.
	It proved that government regulation did not work.
	American investors fled U.S. banks and turned to Europe as a place to invest their funds.

What characteristic of the present-day world economy emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

	Reliance on free trade ideology to justify economic expansionism
	An unequal relationship between the industrialized world and the non-industrialized world
	Reliance on a gold standard
	The growth of long-distance overland trade routes

Which of the following contributed to the Qing dynasty’s downfall?

	Manchu military victories
	Peasants and laborers resented the high cost of reform
	Direct intervention by European military forces
	The Qing court’s refusal to admit that reforms were needed

By the end of the nineteenth century, how did European and American nationalist and racial ideas compare to those of the rest of the world?

	Westerners were increasingly concerned with protecting their national and racial purity, while discussions of identity in other parts of the world were part of the opposition to Western domination.
	Westerners, because of immigration, became more comfortable with multiethnic societies, while people in other parts of the world were drawn more to define themselves in terms of racial and ethnic purity.
	Westerners rejected ethnic nationalism as unworkable in the modern world, but people in Africa and Asia clung to nationalism as a way to reject colonization.
	Westerners became increasingly fascinated with their own racial identity and cultural past, while people in Africa and Asia maintained their own sense of racial identity but were drawn to Western culture, which they felt was more modern.

Advocates for imperialism reacted to news of the turmoil in the Belgian and German African colonies with sentiments reflected by which statement below?

	African colonial subjects were too difficult to continue to control.
	The specific situation that had led to the unrest was an exception to the enlightened rule of most European countries.
	European countries should grant their colonies independence as soon as the people were ready to assume self-government.
	Colonial subjects had been enthralled by hostile religious leaders.

Which of the following was a result of the influence of the city planning movement on urban life at the turn of the twentieth century?

	Better sanitation and cultural amenities like museums and opera houses
	The development of growth boundaries surrounding urban areas
	Suburban-style developments created to house members of the working classes
	Limits on the number of new migrants to cities

Which of the following was the destination of most South Asian emigrants?

	The commercial centers of western Europe, where they could work as bankers
	Port cities, where they established new trading houses
	Gold rushes in California and Brazil, where they profited from mining
	Other British colonies, where they could work as laborers

Most governments imposed few restrictions on immigration before 1914.

	true
	false

The Boxer Rebellion was similar to the earlier Taiping Rebellion in which of the following ways?

	Both remained loyal to the Qing and vented their anger against foreigners.
	Both were composed primarily of Chinese scholar elites.
	Both included a pro-Christian component in its ideology.
	Both responded to hardship and poor economic conditions in China.

10.

Why was the Mexican revolution considered to be the most successful turn-of-the-twentieth-century revolution?

	Peasants gained complete control of the economy and political system after purging the rich land owners.
	It transformed the country and forced later politicians to respect peasants’ rights and land reform.
	The economic strength of Mexican ranchers was left intact, while more political power was given to the middle classes.
	The country finally threw off colonial control and joined the other independent nations in Latin America.

11.

In Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, which of the following was a manifestation of anxiety about race?

	Increased anti-American sentiment
	Greater government regulation of foreign banks
	The growth of anti-Semitic thought and behavior
	The spread of the franchise to the working class

12.

Which of the following is an example of the foreign pressure that led to the decline of Qing dynastic authority?

	The Taiping Rebellion
	The Maji-Maji Revolt
	The Sino-Japanese War
	The Self Strengthening movement

13.

Of the many factors that contributed to the unsettled nature of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century world, which of the following led most directly to the Maji-Maji Revolt?

	Global labor migration
	Urbanization and industrialization
	Increasing anticolonial sentiments
	Increasing economic inequality, despite growth in production

14.

At the turn of the twentieth century, “modernism” reflected which of the following?

	Intellectuals were unwilling to look beyond Europe for cultural and intellectual inspiration.
	Confidence that nineteenth-century economic and social progress would extend into the twentieth century.
	Intellectuals, artists, and scientists sensed that traditional answers were no longer adequate to explain the changes in society.
	Enlightenment ideals and trust in reason were extended into a new intellectual environment.

15.

Which of the following factors challenged the nineteenth-century idea of “separate spheres” for women and men?

	The cult of domesticity
	The Red Lantern movement
	The movement of more women into the paid labor force
	The participation of large numbers of women in electoral politics

16.

What did Pan-Islamism ask of Muslims?

	To put aside differences between Shiite and Sunni and work against European aggression
	To withdraw from political concerns and focus on their religious activities
	To create nation-states with majority Muslim populations
	To support the multiethnic empires in which they lived

17.

Modern artists, such as Picasso and Schönberg, turned increasingly to traditional realism in order to appeal to the masses.

	true
	false

18.

In Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which of the following upset traditional racial hierarchies?

	The arrival to the region of large numbers of poor immigrants from Europe
	Theories of evolution that implied all humans had shared origins
	The growth of a large, wealthy class of mestizo entrepreneurs
	The growth of industries that valued cheap Amerindian labor over higher-priced European labor

19.

Which of the following caused some Americans to fear the loss of their pioneering individualism?

	Increasing industrialization
	Increased immigration from Central and South America
	The growth of cities
	The 1890 announcement, closing the American frontier

20.

Indian intellectuals used Western culture to promote Indian nationalism in which of the following ways?

	They popularized and translated into Hindi and Urdu stories about Western heroes of independence such as Rob Roy and William Tell.
	They created a unifying national language and religion so all Indians could concentrate on expelling the British.
	They set up schools to ensure that Indians of all classes could read and understand important documents such as the Jamaica Letter.
	They facilitated the spread of nationalist ideas throughout British India by creating modern cultural forms such as newspapers, pamphlets, and journals.