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In the nineteenth century, women's use of bound feet (China), white face paint
(Japan), and corsets (Western Europe) are examples of which of the following?
a) Practices that inhibit female activities
b) The beauty of middle-class women
c) Fashions that spread worldwide
d) The middle class' setting the fashion for women ✔✔a) Practices that inhibit
female activities
"Extraterritoriality" can be best described as which of the following?
a) Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country in which they live
b) expansion of a country's international borders to natural boundaries
c) extension of dual citizenship to immigrants
d) acquisition of new colonies or territories ✔✔a) Exemption of foreigners
from the laws of the country in which they live
Which of the following best explains why Japan was more successful than
China in resisting imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth century?
a) Japan's manipulation of the rivalries among western governments
,b) the introduction of democracy by the Meiji Restoration
c) willingness of Japan's elite to sponsor reform
d) lack of interest in Japanese markets ✔✔c) willingness of Japan's elite to
sponsor reform
Which of the following facilitated European expansion in Asia in the nineteenth
century?
a) popularity of democratic values among Asians
b) a general easing of tensions and cooperative expeditions among European
powers
c) Europe's development of new military technologies
d) Asians' lack of resistance to European diseases ✔✔c) Europe's development
of new military technologies
Which of the following describes the major impact of the introduction of
coffee growing in places like Kenya and El Salvador after 1880?
a) the weakening of the European colonial military and landowning elite
b) access to cheaper food for Africans and Latin Americans
c) Increased control over the land by Africans and Latin Americans
d) Greater dependence on foreign markets by Africans and Latin Americans
✔✔d) Greater dependence on foreign markets by Africans and Latin Americans
Which of the following is an accurate description of relations between
European states and the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century?
a) The Ottomans were expanding at the expense of Russia, England and France
, b) Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the
Ottomans
c) The Ottomans, in alliance with the Russians, English and French, sought to
impede German unification
d) The Ottomans supported nationalism in the Balkans to destabilize Europe
✔✔b) Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the
Ottomans
Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1900?
a) Both were characterized by a high degree of ethnic homogeneity
b) Both had low rates of literacy
c) Marxism had become a strong influence among urban workers in both
countries
d) State-sponsored industrialization had occurred in both countries ✔✔d)
State-sponsored industrialization had occurred in both countries
During the nineteenth century, Asian and African rulers usually desired transfer
of which of the following western technologies?
a) Medicines
b) Weapons
c) Navigational instruments
d) Textile manufacturing equipment ✔✔b) Weapons
In the ninteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were
two examples of: