World History

CHAPTER 37 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. World War II began with a. the assassination of Francis Ferdinand. b. Japanese attacks on China. * c. a Russian invasion of Poland. d. the Nazi invasion of Poland. e. the German takeover of Czechoslovakia. (p. 1033) 2. The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the rape of a. Beijing. b. Shanghai. c. Hong Kong. d. Nanjing. * e. Manchukuo. (p. 1034) 3. The Guomindang during World War II was a. an Asian economic organization. b. a Japanese government that ruled the Philippines. c. the resistance government of the Chinese versus Japan?s invasion of China. * d. the resistance government of Korea versus Japan?s invasion of Korea.

CHAPTER 35 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The term lost generation was coined by a. Erich Maria Remarque. b. John Steinbeck. c. Karl Barth. d. Sun Yat-sen. e. Gertrude Stein. * (p. 979) 2. The writer whose Decline of the West proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was a. Karl Marx. b. Erich Maria Remarque. c. Oswald Spengler. * d. Werner Heisenberg. e. Karl Barth. (p. 979) 3. In Karl Barth?s Epistle to the Romans, he a. laid the groundwork for the rise of fascism in Italy. b. shocked the Christian world by stressing the importance of material progress above everything else. c. suggested that Jesus? ideas were a precursor to communism.

CHAPTER 33 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Cecil Rhodes was a. the British military leader who was responsible for a boom in naval expansion. b. the American politician who articulated the belief in manifest destiny. c. responsible for the philosophy that we know as social Darwinism. d. the first leader of an independent Canada. e. a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa. * (p. 909) 2. Who said, ?We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race?? a. Sim?n Bol?var b. Theodore Roosevelt c. Ito Hirobumi d. Cecil Rhodes * e. Otto von Bismarck (p. 909) 3. The author of The White Man?s Burden was a. Cecil Rhodes. b. Otto von Bismarck. c. Arthur de Gobineau.

CHAPTER 30 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The industrial revolution began in a. the United States. b. Great Britain. * c. France. d. Italy. e. Russia. (p. 817) 2. Crucial to industrialization was a. the leadership role taken by the Luddites. b. the willing support of the major industrial unions. c. the peasants? planned and willing relocation to the cities. d. the leading role that Russia provided in technology. e. the replacement of human and animal power with inanimate sources of energy such as steam. * (p. 818) 3. The growing demand for cotton cloth in the eighteenth century threatened British a. wool producers. * b. monopoly over the Chinese silk trade. c. naval strength because of the dramatically rising cost of sails.

CHAPTER 27 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Matteo Ricci was a. the Italian merchant who spent twenty years with Khubilai Khan and wrote of his adventures. b. a Roman Catholic missionary in China. * c. the chief Italian who negotiated trade issues with the Qing emperor Qianlong. d. the Italian explorer who sailed to Japan in the late fifteenth century. e. mainly responsible for the introduction of American crops such as manioc to China. (p. 723) 2. Matteo Ricci and other Europeans discovered that they were more successful in their negotiations with the Chinese if they presented them a. African slaves. b mechanical clocks. * c. cannons and other advanced artillery. d. signed Bibles. e. silver bars. (p. 723) 3. After the arrival of the Europeans,