2013 Ch 33 Quiz
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1) In their struggles for independence, African and Asian nationalists relied mainly on
A) intervention by the United States.
B) intervention by the Soviet Union.
C) peaceful mass demonstrations, economic boycotts, and constitutional maneuvers.
D) violent rebellions against imperial governments.
E) elections granted by the colonial powers.
2) What made colonial regimes particularly vulnerable to challenges from within?
A)lack of strong political and legal traditions
B) the growing industrialization of colonial societies
C) the fact that colonial governments were
built in collaboration with indigenous elite groups
D) the dependence of plantation economies on the West
E) their dependence on European
military forces
3) The radical wing of the Congress Party under B. G. Tilak proposed what formula as the basis for the party's
political program?
A) emphasis on Muslim teachings, particularly the need to put off British culturai influence
B) complete cooperation
with the British colonial authorities
unity among the Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims of Indj.a
D) an appeai to conservative Hinduism, including boycotts of British goods, full independence, use of Hindu
festivals as opportunities for rallies, opposition to women's education
E) a reform program intended to remove cultural limitations on women
C) an appeal to
4) Prior to World War I, what was the primary difference between Egyptian and the Indian nationalist
movements?
A) In India a single political party dominated the nationalist movement, but in Egypt a variety of rival parties
proliferated.
B) Egyptian nationalists tended to side
with the British in international conflicts, whereas lndian
nationalists did not.
C) Egypt lacked an educated elite capable of assuming leadership of the nationalist movement.
D) The Egyptian nationalist movement was dominated by peasantry, while in India Western-educated
lawyers ran the movement.
E) Whereas
India had been dorninated by the British since the L8th century, Europeans played no role in
Egyptian colonialism.
5) World War I had which of the following effects on India?
A) Faced with the increasing expense of the war, the British withdrew entirely from India.
B)India emerged from the war more firmly in the grip of the British Empire.
C) Because of doubts of Inclian loyalty, thousands of additional British troops were sent to the colony.
D) The massive Indian army was demilitarized in order to permit the British to concentrate on the western
front.
E) Contrary to long-standing colonial policy, the British encouraged expansion of industrial production in
lndia.
5) Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Indian nationalist leaders such
as Gandhi and
Tilak
A) forced the Britisl-r to agree to Indian inclependence.
B) mounted boycotts of
British goods to end Indian support for the war.
C)enlisted in the British army.
D) led a revolt in India against British colonial rule.
E) toured India selling war bonds to finance the war effort.
7) The Rowlatt Act of 1919
A) granted Home Rule within the British Commonwealth of Nations.
B) placed severe restrictions on key
Indian civil rights.
C) decreed Indian independence from Britain.
D) divided India into two countries.
E) created a government in India similar to that of Canada.
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8) What was the cause of the foundation of
tl-re
Muslim League in
1906?
A) It represented the fears among some Muslims of Hindu domination and religious conservatism.
B)
lt encouraged Indians to convert to the Muslim
faitl-r.
C) The British wishecl to divicle the nationalist movement.
D) Because Muslims represented the majority of tl-re Indian population, mullahs believed a separate party
was necessary.
E) Gandhi
continually called for the extermination of the Muslim minority.
9) In the Government of India Act of 1935, the British
A) ended the all-India Congress formed earlier and returned to direct colonial rule.
B) turned the provincial governments over to Indian leaders who were chosen by an expanded electorate.
C)
withdrew from India and granted Indian independence.
D) launched a severe attack on indian civil rights.
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E) made Ghandi President of India.
10) Zionism refers to
A) movements designed to guarantee civil rights for Jews in Europe.
B) European intentions to create new states in the Middle East after World War I.
C) the Turkisl-r desire to restore the dominance of the Ottoman Empire.
D)Jewish aspirations to return to an ancient homeland in Palestine.
E) the Arabic insistence on decolonization in the Middle East.
11) Which of the following statements concerning the nationalist governments of Egypt after the British
withdrawal in 1936 is most accurate?
A) Once the British withdrew, Egypt fell prey immediately to the resurgent Turkish empire centered in
Constantinople.
B) The nationalist parties
quickly established a liberal democracy that proved
a model
for the creation of
progressive administrations in the Middle East.
C) The nationalist party governments
did little to relieve
t1-re
misery of the Egyptian peasantry and used the
opportunity to rule for personal enrichment.
D) Egypt created the first western-style democracy in Africa.
E) Rapid programs of land redistribution resulted in an equitable sharing of national resources, but failed to
alter the essential poverty of the Egyptian masses.
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12) What document during World War II included a clause that recognized the "right of all people to choose the
form of government under which they live?"
A) the Balfour Declaration
B) the Yalta Agreements
C)the Atlantic Charter
D) the Marshall Plan
E) the Truman Doctrine
13) In what nation were white settlers able to retain their position of supremacy?
A)South Africa
B)Nigeria
C) Kenya
D)Southern Rhodesia
E)Algeria
14) Which of the following statements concerning Zionism following World War II is most accurate?
A) The Zionist movement, frustrated by the failure to achieve an independent nation, weakened after World
War II.
B) The Zionist movement was
eliminated after World War II by the combined action of the Palestinian Arabs
and the British.
C)Zionism was but little affected by events which took place during World War II.
D) Tl-re Zionist movement turned to peaceful demonstrations and boycotts on the model of the Indian
nationalist movement and refused to participate in violence.
E) Zionists turned to violent attempts to eject the British from Palestine in response to the British attempts to
limit immigration to the Middle East.