- In relation to China proper, where is Manchuria located?
Your answer:
To the northeast of China.
To the northwest of China.
To the south of China.
To the west of China.
Far to the east of China.
- What is Confucianism?
Your answer:
A religion similar to Islam in basic beliefs but quite different in practices.
A philosophy which assists in maintaining social order.
A monotheistic religion.
A polytheistic religion.
A religion similar to Christianity in practice but different in doctrines.
- The Han dynasty is associated with all the following EXCEPT which one?
Your answer:
Exporting silks to the West.
The innovation of block printing.
Being contemporaneous with the Roman Empire in the West.
Establishing a national university.
Establishing national competitive civil service exams.
- Why was the ancient Ch'in dynasty was especially important in China's history?
Your answer:
It produce fine porcelains.
It provided China with a Golden Age.
It provided prosperity based on its overseas commercial power.
It united China into an empire.
It established competitive civil service exams.
- All the following were true of the Mongols' rule EXCEPT:
Your answer:
They established their capital at what is now Beijing.
The eliminated Confucianism and Buddhism from China.
They were ruled at one time by the Emperor Genghis Khan.
They established the Yuan dynasty.
They were ruled at one time by the Emperor Kublai Khan.
- The last dynasty to rule over China originated in which one of the following regions?
Your answer:
Mongolia.
Tibet.
Japan.
Manchuria.
Korea.
- The Ming dynasty is associated with all the following EXCEPT
Your answer:
expanding imperial territories into south and southeast Asia.
overthrowing the Yuan dynasty.
permitting the entry of Christianity into China.
being replaced by the Manchu dynasty.
establishing the Forbidden City compound of palaces.
- The Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 is associated with all the following EXCEPT
Your answer:
eliminating what the Chinese called "foreign mud."
requiring China to pay Britain an indemnity.
liberalizing British trade overall with China.
permitting Britain to ship opium into China.
granting Britain control of Hong Kong and surrounding territory.
- The concept of "extraterritoriality" had to do with what?
Your answer:
Russia's building the Trans-Siberian Railroad through China.
China's expansionist foreign policy into Korea.
China's competition with Japan in East Asia during the 1800s.
China's expansion into Manchuria.
European nations controlling parts of Chinese cities as though they were European and not Chinese areas.
- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 resulted in which one of the following outcomes?
Your answer:
The overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
A stalemate and truce.
A Japanese victory and Chinese humiliation.
Japan's losing Manchuria to China.
China's acquisition of Korea.
- The so-called Open Door policy of 1899 required which one of the followng of China?
Your answer:
China would welcome European advisors to modernize her bureacracy, military and taxation system.
Chinese students would be barred from Western universities.
China must give each foreign nation equal trading priviliges, inlcuding the US.
Western students must be admitted to Chinese universities.
China would import opium and tea without imposing import taxes.
- All of the following were associated with the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 EXCEPT
Your answer:
the rebellion replaced the imperial dynasty with the Republic of China.
the rebellion was brutally crushed by a coalition of Western powers.
Empress Cixi (Tzu-tsi) encouraged the Boxers to rebel.
the rebellion sought to drive out Westerners.
the boxers were members of martial arts clubs such as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists" but with a political agenda.
- What was Dr. Sun Yat-sen's role in China's history?
Your answer:
Fathering the Republic of China and serving briefly as its first president.
Negotiating peace between the CCP and Guomindang.
Leading the Red Army to its first victories in the Civil War.
Founding the CCP.
Serving as the personal physcian to the last emperor of China.
- Chiang Kai-shek was associated with all the following EXCEPT
Your answer:
becoming a hero for his role in the Long March.
establishing a Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan in 1949.
agreeing to stop fighting with the Chinese Communists to focus on fighting the Japanese.
fighting in China's Civil War.
heading the Guomindang.
- The Mukden Incident of 1931 and the Marco Polo Bridge incident of 1937 led to which one of the following events?
Your answer:
Japan's aggression against China prior to World War II.
The intervention of the US in China's Civil War.
China's much celebrated Long March.
The establishment of the CCP.
The intervention of the League of Nations in China's Civil War.
- All the following are associated with Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) EXCEPT his
Your answer:
creating the "Great Leap Forward."
rejecting the US policy of detente.
leading the Long March.
launching the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution."
launching the First Five Year Plan.
- Why did the Red Guards become notorious?
Your answer:
They were young radicals who carried out the Cultural Revolution.
They sabotaged the Great Leap Forward.
They opposed Mao Zedong's policies.
They conspired to bring about democratic reforms in China.
They attemptsed to assist the Nationalists in returning to the mainland.
- Strained relations occurred between the PRC and the USSR beginning in the 1950s because all the following EXCEPT
Your answer:
border disputes.
Mao's feeling that his brand of Communism was purer than that of the USSR.
China's opposition to North Korea's aggression against South Korea.
the refusal of the USSR to share nuclear weapon technology with China.
historical Chinese resentment of Russian intrusion into China's territory and affairs.
- Why was the Tiannamen Square Incident of July 1989 significant?
Your answer:
China renounced her Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the USSR.
The Chinese government denounced the reforms just then coming about in the USSR.
Young Chinese demonstrators called for democractic reforms.
USSR President Gorbachev's denounced the rigid policies of the Chinese Communist party.
American "spies" were captured in China's capital city.
- All of the following have been trends in China since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 EXCEPT
Your answer:
rejecting a multi-party democracy in favor of keeping the one CCP.
recognizing Taiwan as an independent, sovereign nation.
peacefully taking control of Hong Kong.
loosening social and economic restrictions so that a market economy has begun developing in China.
exchanging presidential visits between the US and China.