Deck 6: The Shaping of Medieval Europe

Question 1

Which country was not expanding the territory under its control in the nineteenth century?

A) China
B) Britain
C) Russia
D) the United States

Answer 1

China

Question 2

The Act of Union of 1801 formally made:

A) Scotland
B) Ireland
C) Wales
D) India part of the United Kingdom

Answer 2

Ireland

Question 3

In order to protect their interests in India, in the 1830s the British went to war with:

A) Persia
B) the Ottoman Empire
C) Afghanistan
D) China

Answer 3

Afghanistan

Question 4

In the early 1830s the British attempted to repress a religious cult that practiced kidnapping and murder called the:

A) Vandals
B) Hoodlums
C) Hooligans
D) Thugs

Question 5

The leader of the Taiping Rebellion in China was:

A) Hong Xiuquan
B) Wei Yuan
C) Xu Jiyu
D) Gong Zizhen

Question 6

As high commissioner of Canton in the first half of the nineteenth century, Lin Zexu encouraged the British to trade in all but which of the following commodities?

A) tea
B) silk
C) rhubarb
D) opium

Question 7

In the nineteenth century, the Chinese gentry obtained wealth primarily through:

A) trade
B) agriculture
C) government office
D) feudal dues

Question 8

A major incident occurred between the British and the Chinese in 1856 when the Chinese attempted to arrest twelve British sailors on charges of:

A) drug smuggling
B) piracy
C) murder
D) trespassing

Question 9

The Asian country most open to Westernization or modernization in the nineteenth century was:

A) China
B) Japan
C) India
D) none of the above

Question 10

Russian expansion in the late eighteenth century occurred primarily in the process of a clash with:

A) Poland
B) Sweden
C) China
D) the Ottoman Empire

Question 11

Place the following events in United States history in chronological order:

A) the purchase of Florida
B) the Monroe Doctrine
C) the Louisiana Purchase
D) the Mexican-American War

Question 12

Which of the following countries did not participate in the "scramble for Africa" in the late nineteenth century?

A) Russia
B) France
C) Germany
D) Italy

Question 13

A major shift in British foreign policy occurred in 1882 when Britain gained control of:

A) Egypt
B) India
C) the Sudan
D) South Africa

Question 14

In the late nineteenth century the country now known as Kenya was referred to as:

A) Rhodesia
B) British East Africa Protectorate
C) British South Africa Protectorate
D) the Ndebele kingdom

Question 15

The maxim gun was a:

A) cannon
B) rifle
C) revolver
D) machine gun

Question 16

In 1898 Britain and France almost went to war over:

A) Morocco
B) Egypt
C) the Sudan
D) Algeria

Question 17

What did the rule of Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis over the East India Company's territory in India have in common?

Question 18

What was the name of the Hindu practice in which a wife was burned to death on the funeral pyre of her husband?

Question 19

What was the main point of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823?

Question 20

What was the name of the new government that was established after the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan in 1866?

Question 21

The annexation of Georgia brought Russia into conflict with what country in south-central Asia?

Question 22

What natural resource was the main source of income from the Congo that flowed into the coffers of King Leopold II of Belgium?

Question 23

What does the history of the nineteenth century reveal about the attitudes of European nations toward other cultures around the world? Discuss with respect to at least four of the following developments: the Monroe Doctrine, the Indian mutiny of 1857, Macaulay's "Minute on Education," the Opium War, the "Arrow incident," the treaty system in China, Commodore Perry's mission to Japan, and the "scramble for Africa."

Question 24

Compare British-Chinese relations and British-Indian relations in the nineteenth century. What determined the course of British policy in both places? How were Britain's relations with the two territories connected? What accounted for the differences? Which was more representative of the cultural interactions between Europeans and the rest of the world in the nineteenth century?