WEEK NINE QUIZ
Due 5-7-2009
Please be sure to check off only one response.
Student's Name
A Cixi
B Taizong
C Sun Yat-Sen
D Xiaquang 2.) The "Boxers" can best be described as
A modernizers
B opponents of Western influence
C Christian converts
D opponents of the Qing 3.) The "Boxers" belief in supernatural force resembled
A supporters of the Maji-Maji revolt in German East Africa
B the Afrikaners revolt against the British
C the Zapatistas in Mexico
D the Swadeshi Movement in India 4.) At the turn of the 20th century what country had the most successful revolution
A Russia
B Mexico
C Brasil [Brazil]
D Germany 5.) Which of the following is not evident of a new form of popular culture at the turn of the century
A Sports
B urban dance halls
C vaudeville
D opera 6.) The law of entropy claimed that
A reason was man's highest attainment
B rationality with passion threatened to become machine-like idiocy
C the universe was fated to die
D progress could not be achieved without a struggle 7.) Anxiety over racial mixing in the United States led to
A government sanctioned segregation of African-Americans from whites in the South
B the exclusion of many Chinese immigrants
C the expulsion of Mexican-Americans from California
D all the above 8.) In Europe at the turn of century, a major manifestation of racial anxiety was
A the spread of the franchise to the working class
B increased anti-Americanism
C greater government involvement in large firms and banks
D the increase in the popularity of anti-Semitism 9. ) Which of the following does not describe Sun Yat-Sen's vision of a modern China at the start of the 20th century
A A democratic government
B strength through a multinational and multiracial population
C "Han" Chinese nationalism
D freedom from Manchu rule 10.) Pan-Slavic, Pan-Germanic and Pan-Islamic idea posed real threats to which of the following empires at the turn of the 20th century
A the Ottoman Empire
B the Russian Empire
C the Austrian Empire
D all the above
11.) Georg von Schonerer is best associated with
A Pan-Germanism
B Pan-Slavism
C Pan-Islamism
D Zionism 12.) By 1914 women could vote in national elections
A the United States
B Great Britain
C Finland
D Poland
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