Chapter 26 Pre Test

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Chapter 26 Pre-TestDirections: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by five suggestedanswers or completions. Select the one that best answers the question or completes the

statement.

1. Internal pressures in Africa between 1750 and 1870 resulted in:

a. the acceptance of Christianity as the official religionb. the creation of new states

c. Africans returning to hunting and gathering

d. new alliances with Malaysian and Australian states for military protection

2. The Nguni peoples of southeastern Africa traditionally had pursued a life based

on:

a. the Atlantic slave trade

b. mining and mineral wealthc. cattle and agriculture

d. hunting and raiding3. The Zulu kingdom arose primarily from:

a. centralized African defense against the Britishb. internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands

c. individuals brought to power by the Portuguese

d. conflicts over hunting lands and the gold rush

4. The most powerful and most feared fighters in southern Africa were:

a. the Zulu

b. the Egyptians

c. the Ethiopians

d. the Algerians

5. The kingdom of Lesotho was created:

a. as labor camps to benefit the Britishb. to protect their peoples from the Dutch

c. by attracting refugees from Zulu raids

d. originally as paper states that did not exist

6. The Zulu succeeded in creating:a. a new national identity

b. a new system of writingc. a new economic system based on cowrie shells

d. none of the above

7. The consolidation of West African states, such as the Sokoto Caliphate, was

inspire by:


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a. Buddhism

b. the slave trade

c. Christianityd. Islam

8. Muhammad Alis creation of modern Egypt was shaped by the shock of:a. the invading Ottoman armies

b. encountering the Industrial Revolutionc. Napoleons occupation of Egypt

d. Portuguese raids deep into the Red Sea area

9. How did Muhammad Ali modernize Egypt?

a. By using European advisors and expertsb. By creating a modern military and administration

c. By reform landholding to increase agricultural productiond. all of the above

10. Egyptian modernization was paid for by:

a. expanding into weaker neighboring statesb. fighting for the British in return for money

c. encouraging peasants to grow cotton for export

d. mining, primarily of silver

11. Despite the fact that Egypts modernization made it the strongest state in the

Islamic world:

a. Egypt fell into debt to Europe

b. Egypt could not compete with the Sokoto Caliphate

c. the Egyptian military lost many battles in Algeria

d. Egyptian printing was never up to European standards

12. After the consolidation of Ethiopia, the Emperor Tewodros made ________ a top

priority:

a. educational reform

b. economic reformc. the purchase of European weapons and local production of weapons

d. an alliance with Portuguese settlers

13. The French invasion of Algeria was originally a result of:

a. a Frenchman slapping the Algerian ambassador

b. Algerians taking French officials hostage

c. the French wanting to plunder Algerian wealthd. a dispute over the French government not repaying Algerian loans

14. In addition to military intrusion into Africa, European explorers were

peacefully:

a. investigating African geographic mysteries and assessing African trading potentials


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b. trying to build a new foundation for the slave trade

c. doing research fro new encyclopedias on tropical regions

d. looking for ancient ruins and burial sites to fill European museums

15. Why did the slave trade end?

a. Slave revoltsb. Humanitarian reform movements

c. The plantation system became self sufficientd. Both a and b

16. Ironically, the British were the worlds greatest slave traders and later:

a. became the most aggressive suppressers of the slave trade

b. reopened the slave trade with the Asantec. interfered with the French treatment of their slaves in Saint Domingue

d. replaced factory workers with African slaves

17. Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so when the slave trade ended:a. Africans satisfied their demand for goods by developing indigenous manufacturingb. Africans expanded their trade by developing new exports

c. Africans learned to manage without European goods

d. Africans were never able to afford European goods

18. The most successful export from West Africa after abolition was:

a. palm oil

b. gold

c. ivoryd. lumber

19. The spread of Western cultural influences in West Africa was due in large part

to:

a. mission churches and schools in Sierra Leone and Liberia

b. British traders, traveling deep into Africac. mass conversions of Africans to Christianity

d. powerful European military forces

20. Eastern African states are referred to as secondary empires because they

were:

a. created by Arabs and Africans who had close trading relations with European

trading empires

b. much smaller than ordinary empires

c. not run as efficiently as most empires

d. all of the above21. Although the East India Company was founded in 1600, the British gradually

colonized India by:

a. defeating the French


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b. outmaneuvering Dutch traders

c. picking apart the decaying Mughal Empired. all of the above

22. Sepoys were Indian troops:

a. who fought against the nawabsb. who were hired and trained by European East India companies

c. who fought for Hindu India against the Muslims

d. who fought against the British in India

23. The East India Companys rule of India took off after the:

a. first shipment of pepper to England in 1620

b. opening of the Suez Canalc. victory at Bengal in 1765

d. death of the last Mughal emperor

24. The central British reform in India before 1850 aimed to:a. create a powerful and self-sufficient government

b. establish many new Indian regimentsc. begin the process of industrialization

d. remove Muslims, leaving Hindus in control

25. The British attitude toward Indian tradition and ceremony was generally to:

a. ignore their existence

b. end them and further British controlc. encourage and reform them

d. replace them with strictly British customs

26. The EIC transformed the Indian economy by:

a. destroying the Indian mercantile economy

b. expanding agricultural production and decreasing industrial output

c. extending social security benefits to all castesd. taxing merchants on a lower scale than farmers

27. The Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 was sparked by:

a. British attempts to end sepoy religious practices

b. the refusal to promote sepoys as officers

c. the use of only Bengalis as sepoysd. the use of a new rifle cartridge

28. Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?

a. The British were finally rebuffed and withdrew from Indiab. the Sepoys successfully pushed the British out of Bengalc. India came to be ruled directly by the British government

d. It inspired the development of new weapons that did not require gunpowder


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29. The Indian Civil Service comprised mostly:

a. educated British administrators

b. Indians educated in Britainc. the families of Indian princes

d. British military leaders

30. Despite the expansion of Indian trade:

a. the population became addicted to opium and was unproductive as a resultb. British policies caused Indian manufacture to atrophy and poverty to be the norm

c. India still needed to import tea and cottond. None of the above

31. In 1870, the Indian railroad system was:

a. among the worlds largest

b. practically nonexistent

c. still run by Indians

d. for the British only few Indians used it32. The deadliest disease in India was kala mari (black death), also know as:

a. Calcutta fever

b. bubonic plague

c. scarlet feverd. cholera

33. The Indian National Congress initially sought more rights for Indians:

a. by promoting ethnic and religious unity

b. by armed revolt

c. through hunger strikes

d. through sabotage and subversion

34. The Dutch turned their colonies over to Britain after:

a. Britain defeated the Dutch armies at Talaverab. The French armies occupied the Netherlands

c. the British captured Dutch Guiana

d. none of the above

35. Cape Colony was initially important to the British because it:

a. was Britains first foothold in Africab. had great mineral wealth

c. was a supply station for the lengthy India route

d. showed that the French could be defeated overseas

36. The migration of Afrikaners from British ruled Cape Colony for fertile land in

the north is called:

a. the Great Escapeb. the Great Trek


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c. the Long March

d. the Death March

37. The underlying goal of British imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century was to:

a. control foreign territory

b. promote British trade overseasc. beat other nations to new territories

d. protect British citizens overseas

38. Global commercial and colonial expansion was hastened by:

a. the construction of larger and faster ships

b. the desire to push the French out of Africa

c. industrialization that required cheap raw materials and markets for manufactured goodsd. both a and c

39. The former British North American colonies and Australia were similar in that:

a. both were considered part of Britain in 1900b. they utilized existing local systems of controlc. British colonist displaced indigenous peoples in both places

d. they were settled at about the same time

40. The first British settlers in Australia were:

a. soldiers who had been mustered out

b. exiled convicts

c. homesteaders who received grants of land

d. recruited from settlements in India

Identifications

Directions: On a separate sheet of binder paper, please define each term and explain

why it is significant.

Zulu modernization

Muhammad Ali Legitimate trade

Nawabs British Raj

Sepoy Rebellion Indian National Congress


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