WEEK EIGHT QUIZ
Due 5-7-2009
Please be sure to check off only one response.
Student's Name
A 10%
B 20%
C 50%
D 90% 2.) Bismarck and Cavour can best be described as
A Radicals
B Conservatives
C Socialists
D Reactionaries 3.) According to the textbook, in the 19th century the "Achilles heel" of the British empire was
A Ireland
B Egypt
C India
D Canada 4.) The so called "Second Industrial Revolution" of the nineteenth century gave rise to more economic and political power in
A South American Nations
B Western European Countries
C Eastern Asia Countries
D the Pacific Rim Nations 5.) Beside India, another Asian colony that saw the end of rule by a European merchant company was
A Indonesia
B South Africa
C Nigeria
D the Philippines 6.) By 1914, beside Liberia what other African nation remained independent of European rule
A Mali
B Ethiopia
C South Africa
D Zanzibar 7.) King Leopold of Belgium established a private fiefdom in
A the Sudan
C the Congo
D Ghana 8.) Following the Spanish-American War the United States started a pattern of intervention in
A South America
B East Asia
C Central American and the Caribbean
D Africa 9.) The European author who depicted Asia and Africa as exotic lands and extolled colonial exploits was
A David Livingstone
B Henry Stanley
C Rudyard Kipling
D Mark Twain 10.) During the late 19th century and early 20th century, which of the following did not become a Japanese colony
A Taiwan
B the Ryukyus
C Singapore
D Korea
11.) Of the United States or Canada which entered the 20th century with a greater sense national identity
A the United States
B Canada
C both had a strong sense
D neither had a strong sense 12.) In the 19th century which was the slowest to mobilize against the Europeans
A China
B Russia
C Japan
D Poland
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