Choose the best answer.
1. Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian
rule?
A. Alexander the Great
B. King
Philip II of Macedon
C. Napoleon
Bonaparte
D. Attila
the Hun
2. Herodotus wrote the history of the ________.
A. Ottoman
empire
B. Mongolian
empire
C. Persian war
D. Trojan
war
3. What Macedonian king loved Greek culture and planned to
conquer Persia?
A. Alexander
the Great
B. Philip II
C. Ptolemy I
D. Philip V
4. What is Homer's epic the Iliad about?
A. Persian
war
B. Trojan war
C. Odysseus
D. Greek
Gods & Goddesses
5. Who was the Greek Goddess of wisdom and crafts?
A. Hera
B. Aphrodite
C. Artemis
D. Athena
6. Who said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I
will move the earth"?
A. Archimedes
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Socrates
7. Who thought that the government should be headed by
philosopher-kings?
A.
Archimedes
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Socrates
8. Who told King Ptolemy that "there is no royal way to
learn Geometry"?
A.
Archimedes
B. Aristotle
C. Euclid
D. Muhammad
ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9. The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and
goddesses by performing what?
A. Magic
tricks
B. Olympic
Games
C. Rituals
D. Feasts
10. Who was the main author of the US Declaration of
Independence?
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. George
Washington
C. John
Hanson
D. Abraham
Lincoln
11. What did
Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refuse to give up during the racial segregation
in the United States?
A. bus
ticket
B. bus seat
C. bus job
D. bus meal
12. Which
enlightened despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their
problems ?
A. Francis I
B. Maria
Theresa
C. Joseph II
D. Frederick
II of Prussia
13. Which
food item was introduced to the Americas by the Colombian Exchange?
A. Apple
B. Orange
C. Grape
D. Banana
14. What was
"man's first epic victory over nature"?
A. Fire
B. Metal
tools
C.
Agriculture
D. Clothing
15. In
Sumerian Law, what was the most frequent form of punishment for an offense?
A.
Banishment
B. Beatings
C. Prison
terms
D. Fines
16. The cities of the early Indus
River Valley civilization exhibited concern for sanitation and cleanliness in
the following ways, EXCEPT ______.
A. Brick-floored bathing rooms
B. Dirty water drained through clay
pipes into gutters
C. Bathing in the river
D. Brick sewer systems ran beneath the
streets
17. For what reason has the Yellow
River been nicknamed "China's Sorrow"?
A. Passageway of Invaders
B. Periodic Devastating Floods
C. Frequent Fish Kill
D. Caused of Typhoons
18. After 1200 B.C., why did merchants
in the Near East no longer required the services of specially trained scribes?
A. Scribes demanded higher fees
B. Government controlled scribes
C. Phoenician alphabet did not take years of study to master
D. Collapse of trading posts
19. The Assyrians treat the place
& people whom they conquered in the following ways, EXCEPT ______.
A. Burned conquered cities
B. Spared lives of conquered people and left conquered cities
intact
C. Deported entire populations from
homelands
D. Tortured and killed thousands of
captives
20. The following factor did NOT contribute
to the breakup of the Kingdom of Israel following the death of Solomon.
A. Forced
manual labor
B. high
taxes
C. Suppression
of tribal independence
D. Migration of the Jews
21. What values are depicted by the
characters in Homer's epics that were considered so important that the
"Illiad" and the "Odyssey" became part of the curriculum in
Greek schools?
I. Strive for excellence
II. Meet fate with dignity
III. Love of nature
IV. Selfish Love
A. I and IV
B. II and III
C. I, II, and III
D. II, III and IV
22. In Ancient Greece, the word
“barbaros” or barbarians simply referred to _______.
A. Non-Greeks
B. Invaders
C. Scavengers
D. Ruthless warriors
23. What were the goals of the legal
code that was devised by Draco in the 7th century B.C.?
A. End blood feuds and private vengeance
B. Strong government and economy
C. Strong leader and military
D. Social equality and moral values
24. Which of the following is NOT a
fundamental characteristic of Greek theater?
A. Theaters were open air and often
built on hillside
B. Lead actors were women
C. Actors were always men
D. Elaborate costumes for actors
25. Who was accused of impiety and
corrupting the youth and was brought to trial in ancient Athens?
A. Socrates
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Alexander the Great
26. He tutored Alexander the Great
until the age of 16.
A. Socrates
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Euclid
27. What methods were used by Philip
II of Macedon to extend his power during his 33-year reign?
I. Marriage
II. Gold
III. Diplomacy
IV. Conquest
A. I and III
B. II and IV
C. I, III, and IV
D. I, II, III, and IV
28. Which Hellenistic philosophy had
an impact on Roman intellectuals and early Christian thinkers?
A. Stoicism
B. Libertinism
C. Epicureanism
D. Humanism
29. What major legal principle was
established through the Twelve Tables?
A. Rule of law
B. Equal protection under the law
C. Mandate of Heaven
D. Presumption of Innocence
30. What was Neanderthal Man's major
technical advance?
A. The use of fire
B. The improvement of their cave dwellings
C. The invention of metal tools
D. The development of agriculture
31. What was the Neolithic Revolution?
A. The rise of tribes
B. The invention & use of simple
machines
C. The development of agriculture
D. The invention & use of metal
tools
32. What was the most important
concept of the Code of Hammurabi?
The state must _________ the law.
A. enforce
B. make
C. safeguard
D. obey
33. Within a traditional Chinese
family, what was the most important virtue?
A. Continuity of family traditions
B. Respect for one's parents (filial piety)
C. Family honor above all
D. Self-respect
34. Within the Aryan caste system,
those who performed jobs considered unclean were called
"untouchables". Why?
A. Their touch was like a touch of
demons.
B. Their hands and bodies were not
allowed to be touched by other castes.
C. Their skins were “unclean”.
D. Their touch endangered the ritual purity of others.
35. What religious beliefs are shared
by Hinduism and Buddhism?
A. Hell & Heaven
B. Gods & Goddesses
C. Reincarnation
D. Nirvana & Karma
36. What activity formed the basis of
the Minoan economy?
A. Agriculture
B. Trade
C. Mining
D. Seafaring
37. What type of natural disasters may
account for the sudden disappearance of the Minoan culture c.14oo B.C.?
A. Earthquake and/or volcanic eruption
B. Meteors
C. Diseases
D. Floods
38. According to Hebrew law and tradition, what was the
most important duty of a woman?
A. To be faithful & obey one’s husband
B. To be religious
C. To raise children
D. To take care her own and husband’s
parents
39. In what manner did Solon's reforms
discriminate against women in Athens?
A. Secluding women as part of an effort to improve Athenian
morality
B. Not allowing women to vote
C. Unequal opportunity to study
D. Not allowing women to take public
office
40. What form of government did Plato
prefer?
A. Spartan Dictatorship
B. Athenian Democracy
C. Macedonian Aristocracy
D. Spartan Oligarchy
41. In which of the countries did the
only completely successful slave revolt in world history occur?
A. Senegal
B. Ghana
C. Haiti
D. America
42. What agricultural breakthrough
sustained the Industrial Revolution?
A. The use of guano excrement as fertilizer
B. The use of nets and cats to catch
rodents
C. The cultivation of hybrid potatoes
D. The invention of farm nachineries
43. In nineteenth-century Britain,
most members of the aristocracy derived their wealth from _______.
A. slaves trading
B. land ownership
C. making friends with the Royal
families
D. textile production
44. Which of the following describes a
feature of Karl Marx's vision of the society he predicted would emerge after
the collapse of capitalism?
A. A society with social classes based
on education and skills.
B. A society with strong leader and
subordinated citizens
C. A society without classes and conflict
D. A society without leader and classes
45. Which
group in the United States in the early twentieth century supported reforms to
improve working conditions and called for greater governmental intervention in
the economy?
A. The
Patriots
B. The
Democrats
C. The
Republicans
D. The Progressives
46. Most of the European capital
invested in Latin America was used to finance which of the following?
A. Railroads
B. Seat of Government
C. Education
D. Archaeology
47. Which was the only country in
Latin America to experience a nationwide revolution in the early twentieth
century?
A. Cuba
B. Mexico
C. Peru
D. Nicaragua
48. In the nineteenth century,
Europeans and Americans viewed imperialism as
a ________.
A. social responsibility
B. form of democracy
C. civilizing mission
D. economic and religious mission
49. What elements of the modernizing
process did colonial rule convey on colonies?
A. Agriculture and Mining
B. Communication and transportation infrastructure
C. Education and Religious Reforms
D. Civics and Governance
50. Which country played a much more
minor role in the second wave of European conquests in the long nineteenth
century that it had played in the first wave during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries?
A. Spain
B. Portugal
C. Netherlands
D. Britain
51. The spread of Christianity in
Africa was facilitated by its association with ______.
A. communication and transportation
infrastructure
B. the Pope
C. modern education
D. African leaders raised in Rome
52. Which country was least affected
by the Great Depression?
A. America
B. Britain
C. France
D. Soviet Union
53. The new states that had been
carved out of which empire were governed as mandates of the League of Nations
after World War I?
A. The Ottoman Empire
B. The Persian Empire
C. The British Empire
D. The Roman Empire
54. What happened to the German
territory in China after World War I ended?
A. It was sold to the highest bidder.
B. It was acquired by Britain.
C. It became a mandate.
D. It was returned to China.
55. What happened to the German sphere
of influence in China after World War I ended? ________ claimed it.
A. China
B. America
C. Britain
D. Japan
56. Where did the Great Depression
began?
A. France
B. America
C. Britain
D. France
57. Which of the following refers to
the military alliance that united the Soviet Union with Eastern European
communist states against Western capitalists countries during the Cold War?
A. NATO
B. Eastern Bloc
C. Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
D. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
58. Which of the following was the
principal factor in causing the Great Depression?
A. Unemployment
B. Speculation on the stock market
C. Bank runs
D. The prospect of war
59. Which of the following reflects
aspects of the Chinese Communists Party's strategy on its revolutionary path to
power?
A. Land reform & guerrilla warfare
B.
Indoctrination & traditional education
C. Religious
tolerance & covert war
D. Classless
society & economic progress
60. Which of
these countries belonged to neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pact?
A. Canada
B. Bulgaria
C. Ireland
D. Iceland
61. Which of the following was a value
emphasized in the Socialists modernity of communists states?
A. Community
B. Equality
C. Respectability
D. Tolerance
62. Which of the following countries
was an arena for a hot war between Soviet-based communist forces and U.S-backed
resistance forces?
A. Cuba
B. Iraq
C. Iran
D. Afghanistan
63. Led by Vladimir Lenin, Bolsheviks
or Bolsheviki, was a member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’
Party which seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and
became the dominant political power. What does Bolshevik mean?
A. One of the Minority
B. One with the Peasants
C. One of the Majority
D. Communist Warrior
64. What drew Japan, Germany, and
Italy into a political alliance by 1936-1937?
A. Hostility toward the Soviet Union
B. Hostility toward the United States
C. Preparation for World War II
D. In response to NATO
65. In contrast to what transpired
during World War l, Germany during World War ll was able to conquer _______
quickly on May 10, 1940.
A. Poland
B. Soviet Union
C. France
D. Norway
66. Which of the following was a
reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized power in the 1930s?
A. Its promise to defeat the Soviet
Union.
B. Adolf Hitler was believed to be
sent by God.
C. Its ability to indoctrinate the
German youth about master race.
D. Its success in bringing Germany out of the Great
Depression.
67. Which of the following appealed to
fascists?
A. Socialism
B. Nationalism
C. Communism
D. Capitalism
68. Japanese politics and society
during the 1920s suggested that Japan favored _______.
A. aristocratic politics and Eastern
culture
B. monarchial politics and Japanese culture
C. democratic politics and Western culture
D. socialist politics and Western
culture
69. What effect did the U.S Marshall
Plan have on European economics?
A. It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in
Western Europe.
B. It contributed to Great Depression
and Economic Revolution.
C. It created strong military and
economy for the prospect of another world war.
D. It was the cause of the French
Revolution and the collapse of Western Europe to Communism.
70. Which of the following committed
the United States to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after World
War II?
A. The Warsaw Pact
B. The Treaty of Paris
C. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
D. The Treaty of Versailles
71. How did the American occupation of
Japan after World War II affect the Japanese economy?
A. It promoted nationalism and
national pride.
B. It promoted rapid economic growth and generated economic
prosperity.
C. It contributed to Japan First
Policy.
D. It promoted inflation and loss of
national pride.
72. A distinguishing characteristic of
the French Revolution when compared to the American Revolution was that
_______.
A. it will create society based on
majority rule
B. it sought to recreate society from scratch
C. it shall create a classless society
D. it sought to recreate society from
the bottom
73. The American Revolution grew out
of _____________.
A. a sudden effort by the British government to tighten its
control over the colonies
B. nationalism and economic problems
C. anger by the Britain’s policy on
confiscating Native Indian’s ancestral lands
D. depression due the British
government policy on mass migration to the New World
74. By 1871, nationalism had inspired
this previously fragmented region to unite successfully into a single sovereign
state.
A. Greece
B. France
C. Italy
D. Soviet Union
75. Advocates of maternal feminism
based their claims for equal rights for women on the distinctive role of women
as ______.
A. wives
B. factory workers
C. mothers
D. teachers
76. Which of the following had not
undergone its own Industrial Revolution by 1900?
A. United States
B. Latin America
C. England
D. Continental Europe
77. Which of the following European
ideas about Asians and Africans is older than the others, emerging before the
nineteenth century? The idea that Asians
and Africans were ____________.
A. savages because they lived on the
jungles
B. illiterates and unclean
C. heathens because they were not Christians
D. jihadists because they were Muslims
78. The opium trade in China was promoted
by the British as a way of covering their persistent ______with China.
A. trade surplus
B. hatred
C. doubts
D. trade deficit
79. Japans imperial expansion resulted
in Japanese colonial rule over all of the following regions EXCEPT
A. China
B. Philippines
C. Vietnam
D. Korea
80. Which of the following social
classes declined in power in the decades following the Meji restoration in
Japan?
A. Shogun
B. Samurai
C. Daimyo
D. Peasants
81. Which country ceased to exist on
October 3, 1990 due to unification?
A. German Democratic Republic
B. North Korea
C. Federal Republic of Germany
D. Taiwan
82. Which of the following was not a
factor behind the outbreak of WWI in 1914?
A. Militarism
B. Religious conflict among the major states of Europe
C. Nationalism
D. Alliances
83. When the U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson arrived in Paris for the peace conference in 1919, he brought with him a
plan for a new kind of international life based on moral principles rather than
secret deals and imperialist machinations; this plan was known as the _________.
A. Marshall Plan
B. Fourteen Points
C. European Recovery Program
D. USAIDS
84. The government of which of the
following nations was least successful in engineering a recovery from the Great
Depression?
A. United Kingdom
B. Germany
C. Japan
D. United States
85. Which was not an international
organization set up after World War II either to maintain the peace in a world
of competing and sovereign states or to stimulate growth in the world economy?
A. League of Nations
B. United Nations
C. World Bank
D. World Trade Organization
86. The emergence of a privileged
bureaucratic and technological elite in communist societies as large as a
consequence of industrial modernization was combated by Mao Zedong through a
program known as the ________.
A. Great Leap Forward
B. Great Purge
C. Cultural Revolution
D. Long March
87. Mikhail Gorbachev instituted which
of the following policies after taking over as general secretary of the Soviet
Union?
A. economic reform which freed state
enterprises from government and allowed small scale farming
B. policy of “openness”
C. policy of democratization
D. All of the above
88. Which was NOT an outcome of the
collapse of the Soviet Union?
A. Creation of the Commonwealth of
Independent States
B. Communism continued to be dominant ideology in some
Eastern European countries
C. Increase United States’ influence
as a global power
D. Create opportunity for corruption
and crime in Russia
89. Which individual was most
responsible for mobilizing a mass anti-colonist movement in British-controlled
India?
A. Mahatma Buddha
B. Mohandas K. Gandhi
C. Mother Teresa
D. Jawaharlal Nehru
90. What did Gandhi choose as the
testing ground for his principles of civil disobedience and symbolized Indian's
subjugation to British rule?
A. Sugar
B. Chili
C. Salt
D. Turban
91. Which of the following saved
Chinese communist from being overwhelmed by Nationalist forces in the Chinese
Civil War?
A. The Japanese invasion diverted Nationalist troops from
pursuing the communist into the Chinese interior.
B. The Koumintang of China lack
soldiers to pursue the fleeing Communists.
C. Most Chinese people were
sympathetic with the Communists and harbored them.
D. There was an internal conflict of
leadership in the Nationalist Party.
92. Which of the following encouraged
the European powers to surrender their African colonies?
A. Discontented Africans were becoming
more nationalists and socialists at the same time.
B. European powers were too deep in debt to invest more on
pacifying the discontented Africans.
C. The collapse of the former Soviet
Union was the signal for the European leaders to abandon their African
colonies.
D. The European powers were too busy
with their social and economic affairs that they opted to let their African
colonists to rule by themselves.
93. Which of the following was the
main reason that the United States became involved in the conflict between
North and South Vietnam?
A. North Vietnam was an ally of China
and the Soviet Union.
B. The United States was worried that
Vietnam might invade the Philippines and Japan.
C. The United States supported South Vietnam because it
feared the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia.
D. The United States wanted to punish
Vietnam at the request of France.
94. Whihc was the last imperial dynasty
of China?
A. Qing
B. Ming
C. Song
D. Tang
95. The idea of "the
primitive" was used by early 20th century European artists to symbolize
which of the following?
A. Forces that reason could not
control
B. The diversity of nature
C. Repression of sexual desire
D. The triumph of the Enlightenment
96. The leader of conservative forces
in the Qing government.
A. Tongzhi Emperor
B. Jiaqing Emperor
C. Dowager Empress Cixi
D. Kangxi Emperor
97. Which of the following questions
challenged Chinese intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century?
A. How to adopt Western capitalism and
maintain communist’s ideals
B. How to balance Western thought and traditional Chinese
culture
C. How to preserve Confucianism amidst
emergence of different religions
D. How to build a strong army to
safeguard treat against the US, Japan, and Taiwan
98. By the end of the nineteenth
century, an individual's identity was increasingly becoming defined by her or
his:
A. Occupation
B. Wealth
C. Biological ancestry
D. Place of Birth
99. Which of the following did NOT
contribute to the Qing dynasty's downfall?
A. Opium Wars
B. Boxer Rebellion
C. White Lotus Rebellion
D. Death of Emperor Puyi
100. Who was the first president of the
Republic of China?
A. Sun Yat-Sen
B. Mao Zedong
C. Chou En-Lai
D. Yuan Shikai
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