Download Chapter 22 Shadow over the Pacific Quiz #9

Chapter 22 Shadow over the Pacific Quiz #9
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1.The Manchu Dynasty did not fall because of
a. discreet Japanese economic pressure.
b. pressures placed upon it by Western imperialism.
c. its growing inability to control Chinese society.
d. constant Chinese population growth.
e. pressures brought about by internal corruption and revolt.
2. Lord Macartney's trip to Beijing in 1793
a. resulted in his being refused permission to go to the capital.
b. created a scandal because Macartney tried to sell opium to local businessmen.
c. was the primary action leading to the fall of the Qing.
d. failed, as the Chinese government did not want additional trade with Britain.
e. succeeded in obtaining Hong Kong for Great Britain.
3. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the Opium War?
a. It was begun, and won, by China.
b. The Chinese began hostilities as the only means available to them to stop the opium trade
of the British.
c. Philippine smugglers used the war to monopolize the Chinese opium trade.
d. The British used Chinese objection to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade
China and forcibly open it to Western trade.
e. The war was a competitive confrontation between the Western colonialist nations to
determine which would be the most successful at flooding China with opium.
4. Which of the following was not a feature of the Treaty of Nanjing?
a. Hong Kong was transferred to British control.
b. The British agreed to stop exporting opium to China.
c. The British obtained the right to begin trading in five Chinese ports.
d. All British citizens in China were granted extraterritorial rights.
e. The British were to be paid an indemnity to cover the cost of the Opium War.
5. The Treaty of Tianjin
a. allowed Japan to take over Korea.
b. made the Chinese opium trade legal.
c. closed all Chinese ports to foreign trade.
d. gave the British the Liaodong Peninsula in 1875.
e. deprived the Russians of any control in northern China.
6. Which of the following was not true about the loss of Qing control over its empire in the late nineteenth
century?
a. Japan defeated China in a war over Korea in the 1890s.
b. The Russians transferred territories north of the Amur River in Siberia to China.
c. The Tibetans revived their local autonomy.
d. The British and the French removed Burma and Vietnam from their traditional
relationship to the Manchu court.
e. The Chinese lost Taiwan to Japan.
Chapter 22 Shadow over the Pacific Quiz #9
7. In a response to the reforms initiated by Emperor Guangxu, all of the following occurred except
a. conservatives turned against him.
b. Cixi successfully took power in Peking.
c. he was made a palace captive by his aunt.
d. the One Hundred Days of Reform failed.
e. democracy took root in China.
8. The Open Door Policy
a. was initiated by the German government.
b. formally terminated the spheres of influence in China.
c. increased Western control over tariffs and quotas within each sphere of influence.
d. served to calm the increasingly frantic pace of Western imperialism in China.
e. was initiated by the United States as an altruistic effort to preserve Chinese independence.
9. The Boxer Rebellion
a. started after a riot initiated by kickboxing fans.
b. was an uprising against foreigners by a secret society opposed to foreign imperialism.
c. was a reaction to the invasion of southwest China by Thai guerrilla troops.
d. successfully occupied Beijing, murdering all of the non-Chinese inhabitants.
e. led to the successful reoccupation of Taiwan by China.
e. ouster of all foreigners from China.
10. Sun Yat-sen
a. was imprisoned for robbery in Burma when the 1911 Revolution broke out.
b. had been the secret leader of the Boxer Rebellion.
c. supported the Qing but demanded more representative government for China.
d. created the Tongmenghui/Revolutionary Alliance.
e. became the first president of the Chinese Republic after the 1911 rebellion.