406-428 – Concepts & Identifications Quiz
1.
Which leader was an important visionary in westernizing & industrializing his country and his country’s army?
a. Hong Xiuquan
b. Muhammad Ali
c. Sultan Mahmud II
2. What did the Crimean War reveal?
a. That the Russian Empire was better than most European empires
b. That the Chinese should not be underestimated
c. That the Ottoman Empire was growing weak
d. That the French hated the British
3. The best known and most influential of the protest organizations in the Ottoman Empire, inspired by ideas of nationalism.
a. Tanzimat
b. The Young Turks
c. Ulamas
d. Canton System
4. Which two figures (people) from this period in Asia similarly demanded that East Asian countries open up their ports to trade with the
Western world?
a. Cecil Rhodes & George McCartney
b. Hong Xiuquan & Muhammad Ali
c. Matthew Perry & Hong Xiuquan
d. George McCartney & Matthew Perry
5. What event caused the Qing dynasty to open up its ports to foreign trade, & give Britain most-favored-nation status?
a. The Taiping Rebellion
b. The Opium War of 1839-42
c. The Boxer Rebellion
d. The Crimean War
6. What was the result of ‘unequal treaties’ in Qing China?
a. The Qing government lost control of foreign trade.
b. The opium trade ended.
c. The British left China.
d. The Americans took over Chinese commerce.
7. Which rebellion was the world’s bloodiest civil war?
a. Taiping Rebellion
b. Boxer Rebellion
c. Young Turk Rebellion
d. Decembrist Revolt
8. This rebellion aimed to kick foreigners out of Qing China & was supported by the Qing dynasty.
a. Taiping Rebellion
b. Boxer Rebellion
c. Young Turk Rebellion
d. Decembrist Revolt
9. This act in Chinese history attempted to help China modernize from within.
a. Self-strengthening movement
b. Taiping Rebellion
c. Boxer Rebellion
d. Decembrist Revolt
10. Alexander I of Russia continued Catherine the Great’s conservatism & absolutism in Russia and…
a. Faced the Decembrist Revolt & repressed it.
b. Formed the Holy Alliance with Austria and Prussia as a defensive measure.
c. Built the Trans-Siberian railroad.
d. None of these.
11. Alexander II of Russia changed Russian control over serfs through the creation of local councils called…
a. Trans-Siberian Railroad
b. Decembrists
c. Zemstvoes
d. Intelligentsia
12. What was the goal of the Meiji restoration?
a. To avenge Chinese aggression
b. To modernize Japan from within
c. To modernize China from within
d. To re-establish rule of the emperor alone
e. To establish an alliance with the United States