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AP World History Multiple Choice Questions
And Answers 100% Pass
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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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
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c) willingness of Japan's elite to sponsor reform
d) lack of interest in Japanese markets - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS b)
Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the Ottomans
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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 - ANS 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 - ANS b) Weapons
In the ninteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were two examples of:
a) Republican empires
b) Colonial empires
c) Multi-national empires
d) Nation-states - ANS c) Multi-national empires
Which of the following was among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in
other parts of the world?
a) The beginning of the transatlantic slave trade
AP World History Multiple Choice Questions
And Answers 100% Pass
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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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
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c) willingness of Japan's elite to sponsor reform
d) lack of interest in Japanese markets - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS b)
Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the Ottomans
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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 - ANS 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 - ANS b) Weapons
In the ninteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were two examples of:
a) Republican empires
b) Colonial empires
c) Multi-national empires
d) Nation-states - ANS c) Multi-national empires
Which of the following was among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in
other parts of the world?
a) The beginning of the transatlantic slave trade
