The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 20: Mass Politics and Imperial Domination

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The Reform Bill of 1867, which doubled the electorate and gave lower-middle-class men the right to vote for the first time, was passed by
A)the Liberal Party.
B)the Conservative Party.
C)the Socialist Party.
D)the Whigs.
2
The Paris Commune formed in 1871
A)as the Parisian lower classes took over positions of authority when the rich fled the city under German attack.
B)when French socialists took over the Parisian government.
C)under Karl Marx's leadership.
D)and had parallel organizations throughout the French countryside.
3
Bismarck supported universal male suffrage in Germany because
A)he was a liberal.
B)he believed the masses would back his conservative policies.
C)he wanted to bring about revolutionary changes in government.
D)William II forced his hand.
4
While chancellor, Bismarck's main domestic crusade was fought against
A)Socialists.
B)Catholics.
C)liberals.
D)conservatives.
5
After Alexander II turned from reform to a more conservative course, in 1881 the People's Will
A)led a movement in the countryside to educate peasants.
B)attempted to assassinate the police chief of St. Petersburg.
C)murdered him with a bomb.
D)sponsored a letter-writing campaign to protest.
6
In the 1890s in Britain, unions and socialists formed the successful
A)Second International.
B)Labour Party.
C)Liberal Party.
D)United Socialist Party.
7
According to Marx, the owners of the means of production are the
A)workers.
B)unions.
C)national governments.
D)capitalists.
8
In France, Alfred Dreyfus's innocence was supported by
A)monarchists.
B)nationalists.
C)conservatives.
D)socialists and republicans.
9
The leader of the Women's Social and Political Union, which had reached the conclusion that being polite would not win women the right to vote, was
A)Frances Power Cobbe.
B)Emmeline Pankhurst.
C)Jane Austin.
D)Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
10
Beginning in which decade did the stream of European immigrants coming to the United States reach mass proportions, with people from north, south, and eastern Europe?
A)1840s
B)1850s
C)1860s
D)1870s
11
Which of the following was NOT one of the driving forces of imperialism?
A)desire for new markets and investment opportunities
B)nationalism
C)a longing to expand European cultural horizons
D)the "white man's burden"
12
At the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898,
A)Europeans were defeated by African troops for the first time.
B)British machine guns cut down 11,000 Muslim tribes' men, while only 28 British soldiers died.
C)British soldiers were overcome by malaria.
D)Italian troops met a devastating defeat.
13
The newly discovered drug that protected Europeans against malaria was
A)quinine.
B)opium.
C)chloroform.
D)penicillin.
14
After 1869, the British were most interested in Egypt because
A)of its wheat industry.
B)they wanted to import inexpensive tea.
C)the Suez Canal was vital for securing their link to India.
D)cheap rice production offered lucrative opportunities.
15
At the Berlin Conference of 1885
A)independence was granted to some nationalities formerly part of the Ottoman Empire.
B)France acquiesced to British control over the Suez Canal.
C)the ground rules for European territorial acquisition in Africa were set.
D)King Leopold II of Belgium made his country's claims on the Congo.
16
Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia
A)got modern arms from the European powers by playing them off of each other.
B)lost control of his government to a British trading company.
C)lost to Italian forces in 1896.
D)allied with the French against the British.
17
Until the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, ________ governed India.
A)the British government
B)the French government
C)the British East India Company
D)Napoleon's brother Constantine II
18
After war with Spain in 1898, the United States managed to join the imperialist frenzy by gaining control over
A)China.
B)Indochina.
C)India.
D)the Philippine Islands.
19
According to the terms of the treaty of Nanking which ended Britain's Opium War with China, the latter
A)was paid an indemnity by Britain.
B)could prosecute British citizens under Chinese law.
C)created a joint venture with a British firm to construct railroads into China's heartland.
D)ceded Hong Kong to Britain.
20
In 1904, Japan became the dominant power in Manchuria by defeating
A)Russia.
B)China.
C)Great Britain.
D)the United States.
21
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Western world, more and more groups who had previously been without political power began to exercise it in the new, more inclusive democratic politics of the period. Which of the following groups, however, was still deprived of a political voice before 1918?
A)labor unions
B)anti-Semites
C)women
D)socialists
22
In 1906, the Labour Party managed to get the Liberal government to agree to establish accident, sickness, old-age and unemployment insurance for the working classes of Britain. How were these new programs paid for?
A)by a graduated income tax, which was heaviest on the rich
B)by sales taxes, which fell most heavily on the poor
C)by taxes on the employers
D)by taxes on the British colonies
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