Honors World History Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Honors World History is an advanced survey course that explores significant global events, cultures, and transformations from ancient civilizations to the modern era. Emphasizing critical thinking, analytical skills, and the use of primary and secondary sources, the course examines political, economic, social, and cultural developments across continents. Students investigate themes such as the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, global interactions, and the impact of key historical figures and movements. Through challenging readings, discussions, and research projects, learners gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and interconnectedness of world history while sharpening their skills for advanced study.
Recommended Textbook
World History 8th Edition by William J. Duiker
Available Study Resources on Quizplus
30 Chapters
3692 Verified Questions
3692 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/study-set/1458 Page 2
Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28965
Sample Questions
Q1) The earliest hominids
A)lived in Asia.
B)lived in Africa.
C)used iron tools.
D)are known as Homo sapiens.
E)evolved 1,000,000 years ago.
Answer: B
Q2) Indo-Europeans
Answer: The Indo-Europeans were a group of people who are believed to have originated from the Pontic-Caspian steppe region, which is located in present-day Ukraine and Russia. They are thought to have lived around 4500-2500 BCE. The Indo-Europeans are important because they are believed to have been the ancestors of many modern-day European and South Asian languages, as well as the cultures and societies that spoke these languages. The Indo-Europeans are also important because their migration and interactions with other cultures had a significant impact on the development of early civilizations in Europe and Asia.
Q3) Sumerian ziggurats performed the same function as Egypt's pyramids.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 3
Chapter 2: Ancient India
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
117 Verified Questions
117 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28966
Sample Questions
Q1) The basic social organization of the jati was formed around one's
A)caste
B)occupation
C)kin group
D)location
E)none of these
Answer: C
Q2) The three "twice-born" castes were the
A)Sikh, Hamar and Maltese.
B)sudras, brahmins and kshatriya.
C)vaisya, kshatriya and brahmins.
D)brahmins, bodhi and mahayana.
E)sudra, ashakan and pariah.
Answer: C
Q3) Aryans
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Rig Veda
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q5) sati
Answer: Answer not provided.
Page 4
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
117 Verified Questions
117 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28967
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following is not a true statement?
A)All evidence indicates that the first agricultural villages in China developed only along the Pearl River.
B)Ancient Chinese villages evolved over thousands of years to form the first unified state under the Qin.
C)Chinese topography caused its civilization to develop apart from advancements in other parts of Asia.
D)Nomadic attacks from the north were an ongoing factor in the development of China.
E)Early Chinese literature was didactic and elitist.
Answer: A
Q2) Inscriptions on ox and chicken bones or turtle shells were used for divination and to communicate with the gods.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) filial piety
Answer: Answer not provided.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 5
Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
122 Verified Questions
122 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28968
Sample Questions
Q1) Delian League
Q2) Which of the following best summarizes Aristotle's fears the deterioration of forms of government?
A)monarchy to anarchy, aristocracy to tyranny, and constitutional government to oligarchy.
B)monarchy to oligarchy, aristocracy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny.
C)monarchy to tyranny, aristocracy to oligarchy, and constitutional government to anarchy.
D)aristocracy to democracy, oligarchy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny.
E)tyranny to oligarchy to monarchy.
Q3) Early Mycenaean civilization was based on which political rule?
A)centralized monarchy
B)regional monarchy
C)warrior oligarchy
D)theocracy
E)democracy
Q4) Solon and Cleisthenes
Q5) Aristotle
Page 6
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
116 Verified Questions
116 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28969
Sample Questions
Q1) Punic Wars and Hannibal
Q2) During the centuries of Roman history, from Republic to Empire, the paterfamilias' authority
A)increased.
B)decreased.
C)fluctuated.
D)remained the same.
E)was eliminated entirely.
Q3) Cao Cao and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Q4) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
Q5) Critically examine the various theories advanced to explain the fall of the Roman Empire. Which do you believe to be most convincing, and why?
Q6) Members of the aristocratic governing class in Rome were known as the A)hoplites.
B)Gracchi.
C)Latins.
D)patricians.
E)plebs.
Q7) Iron casting and paper
Q8) Silk Road
Page 7
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 8
Chapter 6: The Americas
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
117 Verified Questions
117 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28970
Sample Questions
Q1) Hopewell Culture and Cahokia
Q2) "Olmec civilization was the prototype for all later Mesoamerican civilizations." Discuss, pro and con.
Q3) Pachakuti created a highly centralized Aztec state.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Amazonia
Q5) Amazon River
Q6) The Inka capital was A)Lima.
B)Cuzco.
C)Monte Verde.
D)Tenochtitlan, E)Uxmal.
Q7) The largest city in North America until 19th century Philadelphia was located at A)Santa Fe.
B)Cahokia.
C)Los Angeles.
D)Roanoke.
E)Cuyahoga
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 9
Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28971
Sample Questions
Q1) the Mosque of Córdoba and the Alhambra
Q2) Which of the following is not a correct statement about Islamic art?
A)The arabesque patterns found on woven Islamic carpets are quite sparse, and leave many areas without any decoration at all.
B)The likeness of Muhammad is never seen in any Islamic art forms.
C)Non-religious Islamic art did contain many figures of both people and animals.
D)The Islamic prohibition of deity re-incarnation through art is found in the Hadith.
E)Paintings were often used to illustrate Persian texts.
Q3) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q4) What role did Saladin have in turning the events of the Crusades? Why was he able to unify resistance?
Q5) Which of the following was not an achievement of Muslim science?
A)the development of the Upanishads
B)astronomical studies in Baghdad
C)knowledge of the nature of contagion and contamination
D)the development of medicine as a separate field of scientific study
E)new developments in optics and chemistry
Q6) Yathrib/Medina
Q7) "fleets of the desert"
Page 10
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28972
Sample Questions
Q1) Competition to Meroe's economic predominance came from A)Yoruba.
B)Kush. C)Sahara.
D)Axum. E)Saba.
Q2) The preferred crop of many Bantu peoples was the A)yam. B)manioc.
C)banana. D)beans. E)potato.
Q3) Nyame
Q4) The Ethiopian Christian dynasty which experienced a long-lasting conflict with African Muslims was the A)Solomonid. B)Coptic.
C)Zagwe. D)Adal. E)Gamal.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 11
Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
125 Verified Questions
125 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28973
Sample Questions
Q1) What were the major religious differences between Indian religions and the arrival of Islam? How did this affect culture and economy?
Q2) All of the following factors contributed to a significant transformation of Buddhism in India EXCEPT
A)delay in transcribing written sources.
B)abstract concepts of Nirvana were replaced by simpler concepts of heaven.
C)Siddhartha became a figure of divinity.
D)a synthetic fusion with Jainism created its own cult.
E)fading of the Buddhist idea of all four classes were equal.
Q3) Mahmud of Ghazni
Q4) To what degree was religion a major influence in Indian art and literature? Cite representative examples from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam to illustrate and support your viewpoint.
Q5) Because of impenetrable jungles and dangerous seas and oceans, travel between the islands and regions of Southeast Asia was extremely difficult.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Aryabhata
Q7) Srivijaya and Majapahit
Page 12
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
126 Verified Questions
126 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28974
Sample Questions
Q1) The appropriate chronological order of dynastic eras in China is as follows:
A)Han-Qin-Sui-Tang
B)Han-Sui-Tang-Song
C)Qin-Ming-Sui-Tang
D)Sui-Tang-Qin-Ming
E)Qin-Song-Tang-Sui
Q2) Chan
Q3) Kaifeng
Q4) In the 1400s, after the Ming admiral, Zhenghe, had successfully led several large sailing expeditions to the coast of Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, the voyages were discontinued and were never revived.
A)True
B)False
Q5) the Mongols and the Yuan dynasty
Q6) The Southern Song dynasty ruled from which city?
A)Beijing
B)Canton
C)Hangzhou
D)Khotan
E)Kaifeng
Page 13
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
127 Verified Questions
127 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28975
Sample Questions
Q1) The government under the rule of the shogun was known as the bakufu, or "tent government."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Yamato plain and Yamato clan
Q3) Which of the following is an accurate characterization of the relationship between the Chinese and Japanese written languages?
A)The two languages are actually closely related.
B)The Chinese written language was based upon the written language of Japan.
C)Written Chinese was discarded in favor of the Cyrillic alphabet.
D)Using Chinese characters as phonetic symbols, Japan created a workable "hybrid" system.
E)The Chinese borrowed the Japanese script as the basis of its written language.
Q4) Jimmu
Q5) daimyo
Q6) What role did geography play in Japan's early development? How did it influence its social, religious, and political institutions? By comparing and contrasting Great Britain and Japan, can you make any generalizations about the development of insular societies?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 14
Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
127 Verified Questions
127 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28976
Sample Questions
Q1) manors and manorial system
Q2) William of Normandy and the Battle of Hastings
Q3) The increase of food production in the Middle Ages was in part due to switching to a three field agricultural system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Magna Carta
Q5) How does feudalism in Europe compare with the centralized relations in monarchies outside of Europe? Is it unique to Western Europe? How does manorialism affect the outcome?
Q6) Flanders and the wool cloth trade
Q7) What distinction was signified by the Magna Carta?
A)England became a constitutional monarchy.
B)Formal recognition of the mutual rights and obligations between the king and his vassals.
C)Empowerment of a representative parliament.
D)Complete autonomy of the Privy Council.
E)An abiding peace with France and the descendants of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Q8) Dominicans and Franciscans
Q9) Henry 2 and the common law
Page 15
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 16
Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery
in the West
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
121 Verified Questions
121 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28977
Sample Questions
Q1) The two major characteristics of the Italian Renaissance were
A)literacy and class status.
B)financial wealth and piety.
C)secularism and individualism.
D)piety and humanism.
E)scholasticism and spirituality.
Q2) This Renaissance woman defended the right of women to pursue scholarly pursuits.
A)Cassandra Fedele
B)Francesca Civolia
C)Dona Medici
D)Isotta Nogarola
E)Laura Cerata
Q3) Ottoman Turks and 1453
Q4) longbows
Q5) The ideal of early fifteenth-century Humanists was to
A)reject religion and the Church.
B)serve the state.
C)abandon history and the past.
D)work only for the most powerful states.
E)establish political democracies throughout Europe.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 17
Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
121 Verified Questions
121 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28978
Sample Questions
Q1) Cape of Good Hope
Q2) The joint-stock English East India Company was founded in 1600 with the aim of developing trade in the Americas.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?
A)Pizarro and the Aztecs; de Soto and the Inka.
B)Magellan and the Inka; Albuquerque and the Iroquois.
C)Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Inka.
D)de Soto and the Aztecs; Cortés and the Inka.
E)de Soto and the Inka; Cortés and the Aztecs.
Q4) Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the arrival of the Europeans. What are the continuities, if any, and what are the differences?
Q5) How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast Asia?
Q6) Timbuktu
Q7) manioc
Page 18
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
127 Verified Questions
127 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28979
Sample Questions
Q1) "new monarchies"
Q2) Pope Paul 2I and the Council of Trent
Q3) the witchcraft mania
Q4) "bloody Mary"
Q5) Of the two major Protestant reformers, Luther and Calvin, who was the most revolutionary figure, and why?
Q6) Among the complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was
A)the belief that Catholic Christianity was being infiltrated by Eastern Orthodox and even Islamic doctrines.
B)the belief that the clergy were too interested in financial matters and uninterested in religion.
C)dissatisfaction with the orthodox beliefs and practices of the church.
D)the charge that Pope Erasmus wanted to divide the church.
E)fear that Manichaeism was corrupting the clergy.
Q7) Spain's Philip 2
Q8) "predestination"
Q9) the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V
Q10) divine-right theory and absolutism
Q11) Frederick William the Great Elector Page 19
Q12) Henry IV, Huguenots, and the Edict of Nantes
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 20
Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
128 Verified Questions
128 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28980
Sample Questions
Q1) pashas
Q2) All of the following are correct about India's zamindars EXCEPT
A)they were local officials.
B)they were paid by international trade revenues collected by the Mughal emperor.
C)their salaries were from land taxes paid by peasants.
D)some were Hindus but most were Moslems.
E)they had both civilian and military retainers, thus had considerable local power.
Q3) Which of the following statements is not an accurate characterization of the nature of Ottoman governmental processes?
A)Originally, Ottoman rule was dominated by tribal law and augmented by Muslim law.
B)The Ottoman Empire was influenced by Byzantine and Persian rule.
C)The sultan ruled from the Topkapi with the assistance of the Grand Vezirs, who were primarily the products of the devshirme process.
D)The government was located in Istanbul, the former Constantinople.
E)The government refused to allow any religion to be practiced in the empire except for Islam.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 21
Chapter 17: The East Asian World
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
126 Verified Questions
126 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28981
Sample Questions
Q1) In many respects, the Chinese economy in the mid-Qing era was as advanced as its counterparts around the world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Li Zicheng
Q3) How, and why, was the Ming dynasty followed by another non-Chinese dynasty so soon after the Yuan? Was it again a situation in which Chinese disunity proved fatal? Why? Why were the Manchus so successful at establishing a foreign dynasty in China, and what were the main characteristics of Manchu rule? How did economy and society change during the Ming and Qing eras, and to what degree did these changes seem to lead toward an industrial revolution on the European model?
Q4) Family life in Japan was very similar to China with the exception of A)arranged marriages.
B)female infanticide.
C)joint family structure.
D)education in the Confucian classics.
E)women had less opportunity for education in the lower classes.
Q5) joint family
Q6) han
Page 22
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
127 Verified Questions
127 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28982
Sample Questions
Q1) Describe the major innovations in art and music during the Enlightenment. Were they as important as the era's new social and economic ideas? Why or why not?
Q2) the taille
Q3) Discuss the positive and the negative contributions of Napoleon to the French Revolution and to Europe generally in the early nineteenth century. Would France and Europe have been better off if he had never attained political power? Why or why not?
Q4) the Grand Empire
Q5) Isaac Newton was an inspiration for the Enlightenment in his contention that the world and everything in it worked like a giant machine.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Adam Smith and laissez-faire
Q7) nationalism
Q8) France's revolutionary army was an important step in the creation of modern nationalism.
A)True
B)False
Q9) Descartes and Cartesian Dualism
Page 23
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
126 Verified Questions
126 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28983
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following was NOT a true statement about politics in Great Britain by the early twentieth century?
A)The Labour Party was created to further workers' interests.
B)Queen Victoria reluctantly agreed to enter into war with Germany.
C)Women had the right to vote.
D)The Liberal Party sponsored the National Insurance Act of 1911
E)Pensions were initiated for workers over age 70.
Q2) What were the main ideas of Karl Marx, and what role did they play in politics and the union movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Q3) George Stephenson's Rocket
Q4) The emergence of Britain's Labour Party forced the Liberals to offer social welfare programs, a reverse of nineteenth-century liberal laissez-faire.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Britain's Labour Party
Q6) Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War
Q7) What contributed to the idea of a "world economy," and how did Europe come to dominate this?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 24
Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
123 Verified Questions
123 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28984
Sample Questions
Q1) Of the following nations, which was the first to grant women the right to control their own property?
A)Italy.
B)Germany.
C)Britain.
D)France.
E)Belgium.
Q2) the Progressive Era
Q3) What role did liberalism and nationalism play in Latin America between 1800 and 1870? What were the major economic, social, and political trends in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Did change or tradition have more influence on economics and politics in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How and why?
Q4) Professional mass sporting events provided people with A)"bread and circuses," as both Marx and Bismarck, ironically, noted.
B)a direct, participatory role in the events they attended.
C)highly organized activities with extensive rules and officials to enforce them.
D)professional rugby matches staged by the American League.
E)an extension of their normal Sunday religious activities.
Page 25
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
121 Verified Questions
121 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28985
Sample Questions
Q1) Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal
Q2) Which of the following was not linked to the European "missionary factor" as a motivation to conquer the peoples of Africa?
A)The belief in the tenets of social Darwinism.
B)The acceptance of the concept of the "White Man's Burden."
C)The competition among the European powers to create an African industrial revolution.
D)The desire to spread Christianity.
E)The attempt to bring some medical knowledge and assistance.
Q3) Compare and contrast eighteenth-century colonialism with late nineteenth-century imperialism. What are the differences, if any, and why?
Q4) What was NOT a reform imparted by the British colonial system in India?
A)Ending the practice of sati by widows.
B)Implementing a system of education for elites and women.
C)Introducing the British Civil Service examination.
D)Transferring ownership of railways to local government.
E)Imposing a new penal code based on the British model.
Q5) association v. assimilation
Q6) Japan, Thailand, Afghanistan, Persia, and Ethiopia
Page 26
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
121 Verified Questions
121 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28986
Sample Questions
Q1) Ryukyu Islands
Q2) In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese obtained all except A)Taiwan.
B)the Liaodong Peninsula.
C)Port Arthur.
D)greater international prestige.
E)Beijing's Forbidden City.
Q3) The United States president and the admiral he sent to Japan were, respectively,
A)Zachary Taylor and David Farragut.
B)Franklin Pierce and John Paul Jones.
C)Millard Fillmore and David Jones.
D)Millard Fillmore and Matthew Perry.
E)James Buchanan and Abner Doubleday.
Q4) Sino-Japanese War
Q5) The Tokugawa regime in Japan maintained formal diplomatic relations only with A)the Dutch Republic.
B)Korea.
C)Vietnam.
D)China.
E)Cambodia.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 27
War and Revolution
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28987
Sample Questions
Q1) Because of post-war economic growth, the great majority of women retained their jobs after World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After Lenin's death,
A)Trotsky replaced him and gradually scaled down the NEP over a five-year period.
B)the Socialist Revolutionary party seized power and held it until 1931.
C)the Politburo split into a Left group, wishing to pursue of rapid industrialization and world revolution, and a Right group, desiring to construct a socialist state in Russia.
D)Stalin was assassinated by the followers of Trotsky, who believed that "Comrade Card-Index" was planning to murder all of his political rivals.
E)Kalashnikov became party general secretary.
Q3) At the first Battle of the Marne, French troops were driven back and German forces occupied Paris.
A)True
B)False
Q4) V. I. Lenin
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 28
Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28988
Sample Questions
Q1) warlords
Q2) Chiang's "New Life Movement" was an effort to
A)eradicate Confucianism from China.
B)blend Confucianism and Islam with Western capitalism.
C)use Daoism to strengthen his government.
D)promote Confucian social ethics, while simultaneously rejecting Western capitalist values of excessive greed and individualism.
E)develop a Chinese society that would promote materialistic Western capitalist values to make peasant laborers more productive and socially oriented.
Q3) In his reforms to modernize Turkey on the western model, Atatürk established a constitutional monarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Iran's Qajar and Pahlevi dynasties
Q5) Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Q6) Hasan al-Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood
Q7) Wahhabi movement and Ibn Saud
Q8) "Down with Confucius and sons"
Q9) Iran's 1906 Constitution Page 29
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 30
Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
125 Verified Questions
125 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28989
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the two World Wars had the greatest impact on the twentieth century? Be specific.
Q2) In 1920-21, under Mussolini, armed bands of fascists called Brownshirts began to attack newspapers and Social Democrats.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the attempt to avoid a two-front war, in 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin limited to
A)the Baltics
B)Scandanavia
C)Poland
D)Romania
E)Bulgaria
Q4) Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
A)during World War I.
B)before the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
C)while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
D)during the early years of the Great Depression.
E)after becoming Chancellor in 1933.
Q5) decolonization
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
122 Verified Questions
122 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28990
Sample Questions
Q1) What role did the Helsinki Accords play in furthering a kind of diplomatic entente to discuss arms limitation and better coexistence between First and Second world nations? Who were the major participants, and why?
Q2) Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included
A)middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs.
B)peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants.
C)the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies.
D)the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard.
E)Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II.
Q3) Was Churchill's phrase "the Iron Curtain" an accurate reflection of the actual state of relations between East and West in 1946? Why or why not? Did Churchill's words contribute to the polarization of East and West?
Q4) What role did Germany in general, and Berlin in particular, play in the evolution of the Cold War? Include in the discussion historical, ideological, and geographical factors.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
32
Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
123 Verified Questions
123 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28991
Sample Questions
Q1) Pravda
Q2) In the post-war period, women in Soviet Russia did almost 40% of the heavy manual labor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Cornman"
Q4) All of the following are true about events in Poland from 1980 to 1991 except
A)mass public demonstrations caused significant changes in government policy.
B)huge rises in food prices helped to give rise to Solidarity.
C)by the end of 1990, the nation had freely elected a new president.
D)Soviet troops occupied the country in December 1990.
E)Solidarity's support burgeoned and, by late 1981, it was backed by almost one-third of the population.
Q5) Lech Walesa and Solidarity
Q6) "Four Modernizations"
Q7) China's Four Modernizations included industry, technology, national defense, and democracy.
A)True
B)False
Q8) "rural responsibility system"
Page 33
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
120 Verified Questions
120 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28992
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?
A)Lester Pearson advocated political union with the United States.
B)The Liberal Party created Canada's welfare state.
C)Brian Mulroney opposed a free trades agreement with the United States that was very well received by all Canadians.
D)Quebec was granted independence in 2006, as a result of the national referendum.
E)Vast oil reserves were discovered off the coast of British Columbia.
Q2) The women's movement writer of The Second Sex was
A)Simone de Cognac.
B)Simone de Beauvoir.
C)Adrienne Koch.
D)Germaine Greer.
E)Christabel Pankhurst.
Q3) women's liberation movement
Q4) Tony Blair
Q5) Pierre Trudeau
Q6) "the pill"
Q7) "the permissive society"
34
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
123 Verified Questions
123 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28993
Sample Questions
Q1) Economic development in Africa has been difficult for all of the following reasons except
A)AIDS.
B)a declining population.
C)a too-rapid population growth.
D)the vast differences between rural and urban Africans.
E)ethnic rivalries.
Q2) F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
Q3) Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters
Q4) Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
Q5) The political influence of fundamentalist Islamic groups in Algeria enabled them to win the national elections in 1992.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Saddam Hussein and Kuwait
Q7) Abioseh Nicol's "A Truly Married Woman"
Q8) Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and al-Fatah
Q9) Do the factors underlying fundamentalism in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have any common causes or consequences? Why or why not? Page 35
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 36
Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
124 Verified Questions
124 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/28994
Sample Questions
Q1) Nehru differed from Gandhi in believing that India must
A)form a NATO alliance to avoid conflict with Communist China.
B)industrialize to bolster economic and material gains of the population.
C)allow Muslims to participate in the new government.
D)allow Pakistan to retain Kashmir.
E)retain the traditional caste system.
Q2) Which of the following statements is accurate regarding Indian developments after the death of Nehru?
A)The following government produced dramatic policy shifts.
B)Indira Gandhi retreated from the bold economic and social program of her father.
C)Cold War politics led to the tensions that provoked Sikhs to assassinate Indira Gandhi.
D)Rajiv Gandhi weakened the socialist programs of his mother and grandfather.
E)Nehru's successors implemented a true Marxist program.
Q3) Douglas MacArthur
Q4) Benazir Bhutto
Q5) 2004 tsunami
Q6) harijans/dalits
Q7) Green Revolution
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 37