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

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