Ch5 From Super-Power to Semi-Colony China from the Exam Prep

Chapter 5

1. During Ming rule, attitudes towards merchants were ________ compared to attitudes under Yuan rule.

a. similar

b. more favorable

c. somewhat different

d. reversed

2. By around 1800, commercial traditions in the East Asian sphere and in the sphere of European and Islamic traders were ________.

a. developing along similar lines

b. in harmony

c. distinctive but compatible

d. in conflict

3. The Qing dynasty was ethnically ________.

a. Han

b. Manchu

c. Japanese

d. Mongol

4. Like the Yuan, Qing culture was ________ earlier Chinese cultural patterns.

a. distinct from

b. almost identical to

c. reshaped to conform to

d. hostile to

5. Khan Galban was the ruler of the ________.

a. Mongols

b. Toba

c. Zunghars

d. Manchus

6. Which of these were given trade monopolies under the tribute system?

a. factories

b. Cohong

c. British merchants

d. Taiwan

7. The White Lotus rebellion developed in resistance to ________.

a. foreign traders

b. Qing rule

c. Buddhism

d. Ming rulers

8. Which of these was a key goal of Lord Macartney in 1793?

a. beginning trade between Britain and China

b. allying with China against Japan

c. annexation of Taiwan

d. direct contact with the Chinese government

9. Which of these was a consistent problem for European merchants through the 1800s?

a. finding Chinese markets for European goods

b. the superiority of Chinese naval power which blocked European access to Chinese ports

c. the lack of interest in Europe for Chinese goods

d. finding a form of payment that the Chinese would accept

10. Conflict between China and Britain came to a head over the ________.

a. interference of Japanese merchants

b. Sino-Japanese conflict

c. opium trade

d. fate of American sailors

11. The Treaty of Nanjing was a key example of which of these historical developments?

a. the self-strengthening movement

b. the Taiping rebellion

c. national humiliation

d. Manchu rule

12. The Taiping rebellion is considered a revolution because it sought ________.

a. social transformation

b. a new administration

c. ethnic cleansing

d. justice for peasants

13. The Taiping Seal could best be used by historians to understand Taiping ________.

a. ideology

b. finances

c. strategies

d. demographics

14. The treaty that resulted from war between China and the British and French was unusual because it was ________.

a. never ratified by any of the parties

b. ratified but not put into effect

c. unequal, favoring one party over another

d. enforced without Chinese ratification

15. Looking at Map 5.6, for China, the significance of Kashgaria for China is best described as ________.

a. critical

b. minor

c. strategic

d. fatal

16. In the context of nineteenth-century relations between Western powers and China, Zuo Zongtang’s campaign against Yakub Beg was ________.

a. typical

b. surprising

c. part of the downward trend

d. a signal that the trend was being reversed

17. Which of these was a bone of contention in the Sino-Japanese War?

a. Vietnam

b. Chang’an

c. Mongolia

d. Korea

18. The demands of John Hay ________ the demands of Lord Macartney decades earlier.

a. went much further than

b. represented a reversal of

c. were nearly identical to

d. were ideological the opposite of

19. The Sacred Edicts represented Qing attempts to ________.

a. reform the Confucian social system

b. restore Ming rule

c. rule as orthodox Chinese emperors

d. accommodate the demands of the Taiping rebels

20. Which of these first appeared in China in the nineteenth century?

a. printing presses

b. higher education

c. newspapers

d. novels