Mr. Mendoza
APWH
Name: _________________________________
Date: __________________ Prd: __________
Ch. 20 Test
F. Facts (2 pts.)
1. ___________________________________ People of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming
villages
2. ___________________________________ Japanese warlords and landowners
3. ___________________________________ The Russian title for a monarch
4. ___________________________________ Federation of NE Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire
5. ___________________________________ Unsuccessful attempt by the British to establish relations
with the Qing Dynasty
6. ___________________________________ Capital city of the Tokugawa Shogunate
7. ___________________________________ Russian aristocrats
8. ___________________________________ Ritual suicide for a samurai
9. ___________________________________ Bowing down fully before a Chinese emperor
10. ___________________________________ Formal agreement between China & Russia; whereby Russian
claims west of Mongolia were recognized
Matching (2 pts.)
11. ___________ Li Zicheng
A. Founder of the Qing Dynasty
12. ___________ Tokugawa Ieyasu
B. Jesuit priest; attempted to Christianize Japan
13. ___________ Qianlong
C. Jesuit priest; attempted to Christianize China
14. ___________ Lord Macartney
D. Russian Czar; Westernization; builds St. Petersburg
15. ___________ Francis Xavier
E. Leader & founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate
16. ___________ Matteo Ricci
F. Led the British attempt to open trade w/China
17. ___________ Peter the Great
G. Russia Czar; Enlightened Ruler; Reformer
18. ___________ Catherine the Great
H. Qing Emperor; One the great Chinese rulers
Multiple Choice (2 pts)
19. ___________ Which of the following is
NOT true of the Manchus?
a. They were nomadic warriors
from Manchuria
b. They spoke a different language
from their ethnic Chinese
subjects
c. They rejected Confucian
principles in favor of a Mongolstyle tribal council
d. They established the Qing
dynasty
20. ___________ All of the following are
indicative of the low status of Chinese
women in the Ming and Qing dynasties
EXCEPT
a. The practice of footbinding
b. Female infanticide
c. The forced burning of widows
d. Arranged marriages
21. ____________ Foreign traders sought all of
the following Chinese products
EXCEPT
a. Silk
b. Silver
c. Porcelain
d. Tea
22. ____________ In the view of Qianlong, the
Macartney Mission/the attempted
trade agreement between China &
England was
a. Unnecessary to China but a
favor to England
b. Mutually beneficial to both
countries
c. Dangerous to both countries
d. Dangerous to England but
beneficial to China
23. ____________ Which of the following
statements is NOT true of the Jesuit
mission in China
a. Jesuits attracted many converts,
and Christianity became a
popular religion
b. Jesuits made an effort to learn
Chinese and to understand
Chinese culture
c. Jesuits captured Chinese
interests with European science
and technology
d. Other Catholic missionaries
criticized the Jesuits’ tolerance
of Chinese traditions
24. ____________ The isolationism of the
Tokugawa government included
a. Forbidding the Japanese from
going abroad
b. Forbidding Chinese & Dutch
merchants from trading at
Nagasaki
c. Forbidding scholars of neoConfucianism from teaching in
Japan
d. Banning all foreign religions
such as Confucianism and
Buddhism
25. ____________ In the floating worlds (i.e.
Fujiwara) in the major Japanese cities,
one could find
a. Centers of neo-Confucian
learning
b. Important Shinto shrines and
Buddhist temples
c. Kabuki theatres, brothels,
public baths, and teahouses
d. Decorated luxury boats floating
over the river water
26. ____________ What became of the
Christian community in Japan under
the Tokugawa
a. Christians were restricted to a
few carefully controlled
missions
b. Christians were brutally
persecuted and driven into
secrecy
c. Christianity merged with
Buddhism and Shintoism into a
new syncretic religion
d. Japanese Christians continued
to worship but lost support
after European trade was
restricted
27. ____________ “Dutch learning” in
Tokugawa Japan referred to all of the
following areas EXCEPT
a. Weapons and armaments
b. Representational drawing and
linear perspective
c. Astronomy and calendars
d. Anatomy and medicine
28. ____________ Which social class/group is
most responsible for bringing social
change to China during the Qing era
and to Japan during the Tokugawa
Shogunate?
a. Peasants
b. Soldiers
c. Merchants
d. Scholar-Bureaucrats
29. ____________ In theory the ___________
controlled Japan during the 12th thru
mid-19th centuries, but in reality it was
the ______________
a. Daimyos, Shoguns
b. Emperor, Shoguns
c. Emperor, Merchants
d. Shoguns, Emperor
30. ____________ The concept of “alternative
attendance” in Japan was conceived to
a. Restore the true power of the
emperor
b. Restrict the powers of the
Daimyos
c. Limit the power of the shogun
d. Protect foreign merchants in
Japan
31. ____________ What is considered the
official ideology of the Tokugawa
Shogunate
a. Xenophobia
b. Zen Buddhism
c. Shintoism
d. Neo-Confucianism
32. ____________ All of the following are true
of the Tokugawa period EXCEPT
a. The rise of the floating worlds
b. The cultural development of
Kabuki theatre and Haiku
poetry
c. A relative time of peace and
isolation
d. A struggling economy due to
restricted trade with the
outside world
33. ____________ What organization was a
transmitter of science and technology
to China
a. The Society of Jesus, Jesuits
b. The Teutonic Knights
c. The Knights Templar
d. The Order of the Cross
34. ____________ Under the Qing, Europeans
were permitted to trade only at
a. Beijing
b. Canton
c. Shanghai
d. Kashgar
35. ____________ The British Macartney
Mission was an attempt to
a. Persuade China to revise its
trade system
b. Find a lost British missionary,
Eli Macartney
c. Assassinate the emperor’s main
rival
d. Convert the Chinese to
Christianity
36. ___________ The predominant religion in
the western Russian empire was
a. Orthodox Christianity
b. Catholicism
c. Paganism
d. Islam
37. ___________ Why was Siberia seen as a
good avenue for expansion
a. The far north was frozen most
of the time
b. The southern ports of the Black
Sea were controlled by the
Ottomans
c. The northwest access to the
Baltic Sea was blocked by
Sweden and Poland
d. All of these
38. ___________ Expansion into Siberia was
largely led by
a. Merchant families like the
Strogonovs
b. Imperial armies forming penal
colonies
c. Cossacks
d. Mongols
39. ___________ According to the Russian
census of 1795, over ½ of the
population in Russia were
a. Nobility
b. Military
c. Freemen
d. Serfs
40. ___________ How did the growth of a
centralized Russian Empire affect the
peasants
a. Peasants became serfs, people
who were tied to the land
b. Peasants’ standard of living
improved to a “middle-class”
level
c. It gave the peasants the vote
d. Peasants were deported and
sent to gulags
41. __________ Peter the Great’s main goal in
building up Russia was
a. Modernization in a western
fashion
b. Conquest of Russia’s enemy,
Sweden
c. To establish trade with China
where Europe had failed
d. To extend Russian Orthodoxy
and drive out Buddhism and
Islam
42. ___________ The new city that was to be
Russia’s “window on the West” was
a. Stalingrad
b. Moscow
c. Kiev
d. St. Petersburg
43. __________ Why did Peter the Great
attempt to Westernize Russia
a. To join the Russian Orthodox
Church
b. To end serfdom
c. To ultimately follow the British
movement into political
liberalization
d. To strengthen the Russian state
and its autocracy
44. ___________ Which of the following were
reforms of Peter the Great
a. Forbidding beards
b. Forcing everyone to dress in
Western clothing
c. Create a newspaper and
improve the education system
d. All of the above
45. ___________ Which of the following is
true of Catherine the Great
a. She expanded Russian territory
and acquired Alaska & Poland
b. She was an Enlightened ruler
c. She made improvements to the
educational system
d. All of the above