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AP World History Name
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1450-1900
MC Questions Due by Monday
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1. The potato originated in
A.
C. Eastern Europe D.
10. The central institution
of the Aztec state was the
A. priesthood. B. army. C. peasantry. D. great landed estates.
13. The Maya were most
advanced in their
A. mathematics. B. literature.
C. agriculture.
D. architecture.
17. The
A. central Mexico.
B. the Panamanian isthmus. C. southern
1. The Renaissance began in
A. the
C. France. D.
Florence.
3.
A major difference between northern and Italian humanism is that northern
humanism stressed
A. economic
gain and materialism. B. social reform based on Christian
ideals.
C. pagan virtues. D. scholastic dogma over reason.
5. In the Thirty Years'
A. Spain.
B. the German Catholics.
C. the
German Protestants. D. the
7. The term Renaissance means
A. a rise in the average
standard of living among the masses.
B. a resurgence of art and
culture in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.
C. an increase in the
population after the ravaging effects of the ""Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse.""
D. the recovery of the
church from economic and moral decline.
9. Erasmus advocated
A. paganism.
B. Christian education for moral and
intellectual improvement.
C. a monastic life of
contemplation and divorce from the material world.
D. obedience to church
doctrine and ritual.
12. The best description of Machiavelli's THE
PRINCE is that it is
A. a description of how
government should be organized and implemented.
B. a satire on
sixteenth-century politics.
C. a call for Italian
nationalism.
D. an accurate description of politics as
practiced in Renaissance Italy.
13.
A. Henry III.
B. Francis I. C. Charles
IX. D. Henry IV of
14. Just before the advent of Ferdinand and
Isabella, the
A. a homogeneous region
sharing a common language and cultural tradition.
B. a heterogeneous region
consisting of several ethnic groups with a diversity of linguistic and cultural
characteristics.
C. tolerant of religious and
ethnic traditions different from Christianity.
D. a region dominated equally by Arabs and
Jews.
16. According to Luther, salvation comes
through
A. good works. B. faith. C. indulgences. D. a saintly life.
17. The cornerstone of Calvin's theology was
his belief in
A. predestination. B.
indulgences.
C. the basic goodness of
man. D.
religious tolerance and freedom.
19. The Reformation in
A. a politically weaker
C. no political changes of importance D. a victory for imperial centralization.
20. The great Christian humanists of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries believed that reform could be achieved
through
A. the use of violent
revolution. B. education and social change.
C. mass support of the
church hierarchy. D. the election of a new pope.
22. Calvinism was appealing to the middle
classes for each of the following reasons except
A. its stress on leisure and
ostentatious living.
B. its heavy moral emphasis.
C. its approval of any job
well done, hard work, and success.
D. its intellectual
emphasis.
23. The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the
Thirty Years' War,
A. refused to recognize the independence of
the United provinces of the
B. completely undermined the
C. further strengthened the
D. maintained that only Catholicism and
Lutheranism were legitimate religions.
1. Mercantilism
A. was a military system.
B. insisted on a favorable balance of trade.
C. was adopted in
D. claimed that state power
was based on land armies.
2. French Protestants tended
to be
A. poor peasants.
B. the
power behind the throne of Louis XIV.
C. a financial burden for
D. clever
business people.
5. Of the following, the country most centered
on middle-class interests was
A. England.
B. Spain. C. France. D. the
6. Which of the following is a characteristic
of an absolute state?
A. Sovereignty embodied in the representative
assembly
B. Bureaucracies solely accountable to the
middle classes
C. A strong voice expressed by the nobility
D. Permanent standing armies
8. Cromwell's government is
best described as a
A. constitutional state. B. democratic state.
C. military
dictatorship. D. monarchy.
11. The Peace of
A. shrunk the size of the
B. represented the balance-of-power principle
in action.
C. enhanced
D. marked the beginning of French expansionist
policy.
12. The downfall of
A. weak and ineffective
monarchs.
B. an
overexpansion of industry and trade.
C. the growth of slave labor
in
D. the rise of a large
middle class.
14. Which of the following men was a proponent
of the idea that the purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and
property?
A. Thomas Hobbes B. William of
C. John Locke D. Edmund Burke
16. The Dutch economy in the
17th century was based on
A. fishing, world trade, and
banking.
B. silver
mining in
C. export of textiles.
D. a moral and religious
disdain of wealth.
17. The unifiers and first rulers of the
Russians were the
A. Mongols. B.
Turks. C. Romanovs. D. Vikings.
20. Peter the Great's reforms included
A. compulsory education away
from home for the higher classes.
B. a lessening of the
burdens of serfdom for Russian peasants.
C. an elimination of the
merit-system bureaucracy.
D. the creation of an
independent parliament.
22. Apparently the most
important reason for the return to serfdom in eastern
Europe from about 1500 to 1650 was
A. political. B. economic. C. military. D. religious.
25. The rise of the Russian
monarchy was largely a response to the external threat of the
A. French monarchy. B. Asiatic Mongols.
C. Prussian monarchy. D.
English monarchy.
2. ""Enlightened""
monarchs believed in all of the following except
A. reform.
B.
democracy.
C. cultural
values of the Enlightenment.
D.
secularism.
7. According to medieval
European thought, the center of the universe was the
A. sun. B. earth.
C. moon. D. heaven.
8. Babur was a
A. Mongol. B. Safavid. C. Turk. D. Mughal.
9. Which of the following statements best
describes Akbar's rule in
A. He developed an efficient bureaucracy.
B. He employed only Muslim
officials.
C. He demanded religious conformity.
D. He instituted the jizya, a tax on non-Muslim adult males.
10. The decline of the Mughal
state began under Aurangzeb, whose unsuccessful
reforms were basically
A. economic in nature.
B.
bureaucratic in nature.
C.
religious in nature.
D.
political in nature.
11.
A. France. B.
Portugal. C. Spain. D.
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20. The Mughal
rulers of
A. brought Islamic law and religion to
B. ended Islamic influence in
C. closed
D. failed to develop an
efficient bureaucracy.
1. During the Ming era in
A. towns. B. small cities. C. large cities. D. both a and b.
2. In Ming times the entire Chinese population
was divided into three categories according to
A. place of residence. B. occupation. C. religion. D. wealth.
3. Ming China regarded foreigners as
A. pirates. B.
curiosities. C. barbarians. D. enemies.
4. The flow of silver into
A. abandonment of the gold
standard.
B.
prospering of the wealthy merchant class.
C. decline in the value of
paper money.
D. sharp drop in the price of
silver.
6. Under the Tokugawa government,
A. emperor. B. shogun.
C. Tokugawa regent. D. council of samurai.
7. Kabuki theater
usually depicted
A. crude love and romance.
B. historical
events.
C. scenes
from court life.
D. folk
tales.
9. It may be generally said that during the
Tokugawa era in
A. the country enjoyed peace and development.
B. the country suffered
continuous civil strife.
C. people lost their faith in the monarchy.
D. the standard of living
declined.
11.
A. were spies for European nations.
B. encouraged Japanese
Christians to participate in feudal revolts.
C. preached the overthrow of the shogun.
D. interfered with
13. The Ming agricultural and commercial
revolutions were closely linked with
A. an expansion of foreign
trade.
B. dramatic
improvements in rice production.
C. deurbanization.
D. new
methods of government spending.
14. ""Fish farming""
refers to
A. big net
fishing off the Chinese coast.
B. fish
hatching in government aquariums.
C. farming for half the year
and fishing the other half.
D. stocking
fish in the rice paddies.
16. Hong Wu's (a Ming
emperor) most enduring reform was his
A. reorganization of the
state ministry.
B.
implementation of a yearly census.
C. reinstatement of civil
service examinations.
D.
hereditary categories.
17. The naval expeditions of Zheng He during the Ming period reached as far as
A. the east coast of
B. the east
coast of
C. the west
coast of
D. southeast
Asia.
20. During the later
Ming Dynasty
A. China avoided all foreign trade.
B. China achieved peace with
its northern invaders.
C. costs of the imperial court decreased.
D.
21. The Qing Dynasty
was established by the
A. Manchus. B. Mongols. C. Japanese. D.
Vietnamese.
22. Early on, the Qing
gained the support of
A. peasants. B. intellectuals. C. eunuchs. D. landowners.
24. The code by which the
samurai lived was called
A. harakiri. B. seppuku. C. Bushido. D. shoen.
26. In Tokugawa Japan the
commercial class
A. was outlawed.
B. was considered lowly.
C. was highly esteemed.
D. rose to great power.
1. Eighteenth-century
(Western) liberals stressed
A. economic
equality. B. equality in property holding.
C. equality
of opportunity D. racial
and sexual equality.
2. Which came first?
A. Formation of the French National Assembly
B. Execution of King Louis
XVI
C. American Bill of Rights
D. Seven Years' War
4. The French National
Assembly was established by
A. the middle class of the
Third Estate.
B. King Louis XVI.
C. the
aristocracy.
D. the
sans-culottes.
6. In the first stage of the Revolution the
French established
A. a constitutional
monarchy.
B. an
absolutist monarchy.
C. a
republic.
D. a
military dictatorship.