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Super Quiz ™ PowerPoint Test 5 2011-2012

Super Quiz ™ PowerPoint Test 5 2011-2012. Question 1. Which breakaway Ottoman province seized Syria in 1831?. a. Algeria b. Persia c. Balkans d. Egypt e. Sudan. Question 1. Which breakaway Ottoman province seized Syria in 1831?. d. Egypt (41, 1, 4). Question 2.

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Super Quiz ™ PowerPoint Test 5 2011-2012

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  1. Super Quiz™PowerPoint Test 52011-2012

  2. Question 1 Which breakaway Ottoman province seized Syria in 1831? a. Algeria b. Persia c. Balkans d. Egypt e. Sudan

  3. Question 1 Which breakaway Ottoman province seized Syria in 1831? d. Egypt (41, 1, 4)

  4. Question 2 Which European monarch requested the development of the 1903 Investigative Report? a. Charles V b. Frederick William c. Kaiser Wilhelm II d. Leopold II e. George III

  5. Question 2 Which European monarch requested the development of the 1903 Investigative Report? d. Leopold II (101, 1, 1)

  6. Question 3 During the French and Indian War, which power enjoyed naval superiority? a. Britain b. Italy c. Prussia d. Netherlands e. France

  7. Question 3 During the French and Indian War, which power enjoyed naval superiority? a. Britain (28, 1, 2)

  8. Question 4 In the late eighteenth century, what form did the most significant of the internal challenges to the mercantile colonial world take? a. religious protests b. slave agitation movements c. parliamentary reform d. economic boycotts e. growth of unionism

  9. Question 4 In the late eighteenth century, what form did the most significant of the internal challenges to the mercantile colonial world take? b. slave agitation movements (29, 1, 1)

  10. Question 5 Who wrote “Shooting an Elephant”? a. Herbert Spencer b. Edmund Morel c. Thomas Macaulay d. George Orwell e. Rudyard Kipling

  11. Question 5 Who wrote “Shooting an Elephant”? d. George Orwell (103, 2, 1)

  12. Question 6 During the decolonization of Asia after World War II, which independent country “was created for Muslims” in 1947? a. Cambodia b. Pakistan c. India d. Laos e. Vietnam

  13. Question 6 During the decolonization of Asia after World War II, which independent country “was created for Muslims” in 1947? b. Pakistan (110, 2, 3)

  14. Question 7 Which two countries demanded extraterritoriality from Mahmud II as a condition of military assistance in controlling the breakaway province of Egypt? a. France and Britain b. Denmark and Portugal c. Britain and Portugal d. Spain and Portugal e. Netherlands and Denmark

  15. Question 7 Which two countries demanded extraterritoriality from Mahmud II as a condition of military assistance in controlling the breakaway province of Egypt? a. France and Britain (41, 1, 4)

  16. Question 8 The Berlin Conference legitimized the claim of which nation to the Congo River area? a. France b. Netherlands c. Belgium d. Portugal e. Spain

  17. Question 8 The Berlin Conference legitimized the claim of which nation to the Congo River area? c. Belgium (80, 2, 2)

  18. Question 9 Which of the following became “the first multinational undertaking in history”? a. Dutch Long-Distance Companies (Compagnieën van Verre) b. Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) c. Dutch West India Company (Westindiche Compagnie) d. Amsterdam Stock Exchange e. Heren XVII

  19. Question 9 Which of the following became “the first multinational undertaking in history”? b. Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) (9, 1, 2)

  20. Question 10 Which British explorer justified commercial exploits in Africa as a “duty to raise their fellow creatures from their present degraded, denationalized, and demoralized state”? a. James Tuckey b. Macgregor Laird c. William Laird d. Richard Lander e. John Lander

  21. Question 10 Which British explorer justified commercial exploits in Africa as a “duty to raise their fellow creatures from their present degraded, denationalized, and demoralized state”? b. Macgregor Laird (57, 2, 1)

  22. Question 11 Which system, according to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, most effectively allowed most people to pursue their economic self-interest? a. mercantilism b. capitalism c. communism d. socialism e. primitivism

  23. Question 11 Which system, according to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, most effectively allowed most people to pursue their economic self-interest? b. capitalism (35, 2, 2)

  24. Question 12 The narrator of “Shooting an Elephant” compares the crowd’s watching the standoff with the elephant to their watching a/an a. executioner at the guillotine b. judge and jury c. conjurer performing a trick d. gladiator facing a lion e. man facing a firing squad

  25. Question 12 The narrator of “Shooting an Elephant” compares the crowd’s watching the standoff with the elephant to their watching a/an c. conjurer performing a trick (105, 2 ,1)

  26. Question 13 The activities of the British East India Company focused primarily on a. North and South America b. Africa and the Middle East c. India and China d. Canada and New England e. Indonesia and North Africa

  27. Question 13 The activities of the British East India Company focused primarily on c. India and China (9, 2, 2)

  28. Question 14 Which European nation dominated Asian trade in the late seventeenth century? a. France b. Denmark c. Britain d. United States e. Netherlands

  29. Question 14 Which European nation dominated Asian trade in the late seventeenth century? • Netherlands • (43, 1, 1)

  30. Question 15 The crowd that gathers near the paddy fields in “Shooting an Elephant” is convinced that the a. men in the crowd will have to storm the elephant b. officer will never fire the rifle c. situation is becoming diffused d. officer is a coward e. officer will eventually shoot the elephant

  31. Question 15 The crowd that gathers near the paddy fields in “Shooting an Elephant” is convinced that the • officer will eventually shoot the elephant • (105, 2, 1)

  32. Question 16 Which leader was assassinated in 1948 because of his continued work for religious reconciliation? a. Mahatmas Gandhi b. Mao Zedong c. François Mitterrand d. Charles de Gaulle e. Winston Churchill

  33. Question 16 Which leader was assassinated in 1948 because of his continued work for religious reconciliation? a. Mahatmas Gandhi (110, 2, 3)

  34. Question 17 The African Inland Commercial Company was organized as a result of the “discoveries of the brothers Lander” on the a. Congo River b. Nile River c. Niger River d. Senegal River e. Zambezi River

  35. Question 17 The African Inland Commercial Company was organized as a result of the “discoveries of the brothers Lander” on the c. Niger River (57, 2, 1)

  36. Question 18 When the narrator of “Shooting an Elephant” reflected on the circumstances he faced in Burma, he realized all of the following EXCEPT a. that he was quite young at the time b. that he genuinely felt hatred for his job c. that he felt genuine anger against those who make his work more difficult d. that he knew the British Empire was in serious decline e. that he viewed the British Raj as a tyrant

  37. Question 18 When the narrator of “Shooting an Elephant” reflected on the circumstances he faced in Burma, he realized all of the following EXCEPT d. that he knew the British Empire was in serious decline (104, 2, 1)

  38. Question 19 Who complained in 1776 that the British Empire “existed in imagination only”? a. Adam Smith b. David Ricardo c. Edmund Burke d. Fernand Braudel e. John Locke

  39. Question 19 Who complained in 1776 that the British Empire “existed in imagination only”? a. Adam Smith (13, 2, 1)

  40. Question 20 Who persuaded patent holders to establish an interior fur trading post at Quebec in 1608 and then wintered there with twenty-eight men? a. Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegagnon b. Pierre du Guast, Comte de Monts c. Marquis de la Roche d. Samuel Champlain e. René de Laudonnière

  41. Question 20 Who persuaded patent holders to establish an interior fur trading post at Quebec in 1608 and then wintered there with twenty-eight men? d. Samuel Champlain (16, 2, 1)

  42. Question 21 Which two European nations dominated Asian trade in the early eighteenth century? a. France and Britain b. Denmark and Portugal c. Britain and Portugal d. Spain and Portugal e. Netherlands and Denmark

  43. Question 21 Which two European nations dominated Asian trade in the early eighteenth century? a. France and Britain (39, 2, 2)

  44. Question 22 Edmund Morel’s 1904 book on the colonization of Africa confirmed a 1903 study by exposing a. abolition and the interruption of the slave trade b. parliamentary graft c. indigenous African rebellions d. depopulation and disease in Africa e. corruption of merchants and traders

  45. Question 22 Edmund Morel’s 1904 book on the colonization of Africa confirmed a 1903 study by exposing d. depopulation and disease in Africa (101, 2, 2)

  46. Question 23 Which Spanish explorer in 1542 traveled up the west coast as far as San Francisco Bay? a. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado b. Bartolomé Ferrelo c. Vasco Núñez de Balboa d. Pedro de Valdivia e. Juan Cabrillo

  47. Question 23 Which Spanish explorer in 1542 traveled up the west coast as far as San Francisco Bay? • Juan Cabrillo • (14, 2, 3)

  48. Question 24 Macgregor Laird’ plan was to establish a trading post along the Niger to buy a. diamonds b. palm oil c. sugar cane d. tribal art e. cork

  49. Question 24 Macgregor Laird’ plan was to establish a trading post along the Niger to buy • palm oil • (57, 2, 2)

  50. Question 25 After capturing Delhi, whom did the Sepoys proclaim emperor in May 1857? a. Bahadur Shah b. Nana Sahib c. Pandurang Mahipat Belsare d. Tatya Tope e. Mangal Pandey

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