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Question #1
In the 1820s, Vietnam's ruler considered what to be one of the great threats to the unity of his country?
A.   Cambodian refugees
B.   French Catholic missionaries
C.   Chinese traders
D.   British imperialists
Question #2
Who did the Manchus call on to help put down the Taiping Rebellion?
A.   The Mongols, who sent elite horsemen
B.   Their own Manchu banner army units
C.   Chinese scholar-officials who raised armies to suppress the rebels
D.   The British and French armies
Question #3
What was a consequence of the 1894 naval war between Japan and China?
A.   Russia mediated a peace agreement that allowed the Japanese to occupy Beijing.
B.   China won and forced Japan to give up Okinawa.
C.   China was defeated and forced to cede Taiwan to Japan.
D.   China was saved from defeat only by the intervention of the British navy.
Question #4
Which of the following could be said of all Asian countries by the nineteenth century?
A.   They had all been in contact in one form or another with the West.
B.   They had all adopted Westernized forms of currencies.
C.   They were all affected to one degree or another by the opium trade.
D.   They had all become Christian.
Question #5
Rammohun Roy created a society that tried to reconcile Western philosophy and what sacred Indian text?
A.   The Ramayana
B.   The Mahabharata
C.   The Rigveda
D.   The Upanishads
Question #6
What was the ultimate goal of the Taiping rebels in China?
A.   To create a socialist society based on the teachings of Marx and Engels
B.   To restore the Ming Dynasty to power and get rid of the "foreign" Manchus
C.   To establish a utopia with equal landholdings and equality of men and women
D.   To expel all Western influences from China and kill all Christian missionaries
Question #7
The export of what commodity from India to China would have far-reaching effects for all concerned?
A.   Tea
B.   Indigo
C.   Opium
D.   Pepper
Question #8
Britain's improvement of transportation in India resulted in the spread of disease, especially which one?
A.   Cholera
B.   Smallpox
C.   Malaria
D.   Tuberculosis
Question #9
What Spanish possession did Commodore George Dewey help seize for the United States?
A.   Macao
B.   The Philippines
C.   Cuba
D.   The Virgin Islands
Question #10
In India, the British ruled with the cooperation of which of these?
A.   Indian peasants
B.   The Indian middle class
C.   European allies
D.   Local princes
Question #11
When U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry "opened" Japan in 1853, who was the real ruler of the country?
A.   The head of the army
B.   The Tokugawa shogun
C.   The high priest of the Shinto religion
D.   The emperor
Question #12
Who was a key figure in the introduction of the ideas of democracy and revolution into China?
A.   Tsui Hark
B.   Sun Yatsen
C.   Lin Xezu
D.   Hong Xiuquan
Question #13
In the Boxer Rebellion, the Boxers blamed China's problems on which of the following?
A.   Foreign missionaries who criticized the nation
B.   European imperialism across Asia
C.   The emperor, whom they called weak and corrupt
D.   Militarism in Japan
Question #14
Who stopped the reforms of the Qing emperor in 1898?
A.   The empress dowager
B.   British forces
C.   Taiping rebels
D.   Boxers
Question #15
The United States acquired the Philippines from Spain in what year?
A.   1882
B.   1904
C.   1898
D.   1866
Question #16
How did British rule in India change after the Great Revolt of 1857?
A.   Britain made it illegal for the lower castes to own rifles.
B.   The British East India Company closed British schools for the Indian elite.
C.   India was ruled directly by the British government.
D.   Queen Victoria appointed an Indian Governor-General who answered directly to her.
Question #17
Of all the Asian countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which came to rival the West in urbanity and education?
A.   China
B.   Japan
C.   India
D.   Korea
Question #18
The Indian National Congress demanded that the government spend more of its budget on what?
A.   More industrialized farming
B.   Reducing poverty
C.   Military supplies
D.   Expansion of borders
Question #19
Japan modeled its Constitution of 1889 on that of what country?
A.   France
B.   Germany
C.   The United States
D.   England
Question #20
Which country formally annexed Korea as a province in 1910?
A.   Siam
B.   China
C.   Japan
D.   Laos

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