AP Multiple Choice Questions

1750 – 1914
and
1914 - Present
1. Which of the following policies led to
radicalism in both the French Revolution
after 1789 and the Russian Revolution
after 1917?

a) Strikes by factory workers

b) War against foreign enemies
c) Coming to power of the peasantry
d) Creation of a salaried clergy
e) Imposition of socialism
Answer: B
2. The first successful revolution in the
Carribean and South America was
launched in:

a) Haiti
b) Argentina
c) Cuba
d) Columbia
e) Jamaica
Answer: A
3. In the nineteenth century, women’s use of
bound feet (China), white face paint
(Japan), and corsets (Western Europe)
are examples of which of the following?

a) Practices that inhibit female activities

b) The beauty of middle-class women
c) Fashions that spread worldwide
d) The middle class’ setting the fashion for
women
e) Women’s participation in the workforce
Answer: A
4. Anti-colonial movements like the Congress
Party in India and the Young Turks agreed on
which of the following?

a) Their emphasis on purely linguistic nationalism

b) The desire to return their societies to an earlier
pre-industrial age.
c) Their intent to engage in territorial expansion at
the expense of their weaker neighbors.
d) The need for reform in order to resist European
imperialism.
e) The need to persuade all anti-colonial
movements to cooperate with European
socialist parties.
Answer: D
5. “Extraterritoriality” can best be described
as which of the following?

a) Exemption of foreigners from the laws of

the country in which they live.
b) Expansion of a country’s international
borders to natural boundaries.
c) Extension of dual citizenship to
immigrants
d) Acquisition of new colonies or territories
e) Establishment of a government in exile.
Answer: A
6. Which of the following best explains why Japan
was more successful than China in resisting
imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth
century?

a) Japan’s manipulation of the rivalries among

western governments.
b) The introduction of democracy by the Meiji
Restoration
c) The willingness of Japan’s elite to sponsor
reform
d) Lack of interest in Japanese markets
e) Abundant natural resources
Answer: C
7. Which of the following facilitated European
expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?

a) The popularity of democratic values among

Asians
b) A general easing of tensions and cooperative
expeditions among European powers.
c) Europe’s development of new military
technologies
d) Asians’ lack of resistance to European diseases
e) Europe’s ability to send numerically superior
armies to Asia
Answer: C
8. Which of the following is an accurate
comparison of the Chinese and the Mexican
revolutions of the twentieth century?

a) Both promoted imperialism

b) Both were supported by Japan
c) Both promoted religious education
d) Both were supported by an elite group of
landlords.
e) Both generated land-redistribution policies
Answer: E
9. Which of the following statements about Africa
after 1946 is true?

a) Most African colonies gained national

independence
b) The Organization of African Unity resolved the
issues that most African states found divisive
c) Most African countries joined either NATO or
the Warsaw Pact.
d) There was little postcolonial conflict in newly
independent states.
e) Colonial patterns of trade disappeared.
Answer: A
10. Which of the following countries
experienced the most rapid growth
during the Second World War?

a) China
b) Japan
c) Germany
d) The Soviet Union
e) The United States
Answer: E
11. By 1980 most industrialized countries reached a fairly
stable population level, but population growth in non-
industrialized countries continued at a very high rate.
The most like explanation for this difference is that:

a) Climatic shifts resulting from global warming have

caused population decline in the industrialized
countries.
b) The “green revolution” was rejected by industrialized
countries but embraced by non-industrialized
countries.
c) Farmers in industrialized countries concentrated on
growing cash crops for export rather than food crops
for domestic consumption
d) Pollution in industrialized countries caused a decline in
human fertility rates
e) Children are a more important source of labor in
agricultural than in industrial societies
Answer: E
12. What do Israel, India and Canada have
in common?

a) Economies based primarily on the

production of raw materials.
b) Defense systems dependent on aid from
the United States
c) Parliamentary forms of government
d) Two official languages at the national
level
e) One predominant state religion
Answer: C
13. Which of the following describes the major
impact of the introduction of coffee growing in
places like Kenya and El Salvador after 1880?

a) The end of taxes paid to the government

b) The weakening of the European colonial
military and landowning elite
c) Access to cheaper food for Africans and Latin
Americans
d) Increased control over the land by Africans
and Latin Americans
e) Greater dependence on foreign markets by
Africans and Latin Americans
Answer: E
14. Which of the following is an accurate description of
relations between European states and the Ottoman
Empire in the period 1815 to 1914?

a) The Ottomans were expanding at the expense of

Russia, England and France
b) Russian, English and French expansion came at the
expense of the Ottomans.
c) The Ottomans, in alliance with the Russians, English
and French, sought to impede German unification.
d) The Ottomans supported nationalism in the Balkans to
destabilize Europe.
e) The Ottomans and the French cooperated in colonizing
North Africa.
Answer: B
15. Which of the following is true of both Russia
and Japan by 1914?

a) Both were characterized by a high degree of

ethnic homogeneity.
b) Both had effective democratic institutions that
restrained the power of the monarchs.
c) Both had low rates of literacy
d) Marxism had become a strong influence
among urban workers in both countries.
e) Rapid, state-sponsored industrialization had
occurred in both countries.
Answer: E
16. During the nineteenth century, Asian and
African rulers usually desired transfer of
which of the following western
technologies?

a) Medicines
b) Weapons
c) Navigational instruments
d) Textile manufacturing equipment
e) Chemical fertilizers
Answer: B
17. In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman
and Austro-Hungarian empires were two
examples of:

a) Nationalistic empires
b) Republican empires
c) Colonial empires
d) Multinational empires
e) Nation-states
Answer: D
17. Which of the following was among the first
results of the European Industrial Revolution in
other parts of the world?

a) The beginning of the transatlantic slave trade

b) Increased demand for commodities such as
cotton and palm oil
c) The search for oil in Africa, Asia and Latin
America
d) Construction of textile factories in Africa and
Asia
e) The partition of Africa by European imperial
powers.
Answer: B
18. In the nineteenth century, Latin
American urban dwellers were most
similar to western European urban
dwellers in which of the following areas?

a) Literacy and cultural tastes

b) Ethnic and racial composition
c) Export and import patterns
d) Standards of living
e) Levels of literacy
Answer: A
19. Of the following, which represents a
challenge to superpower domination by a
smaller nation during the Cold War?

a) Prague Spring
b) Helsinki Accords
c) Brezhnev Doctrine
d) Marshall Plan
e) Truman Doctrine
Answer: A
20. In what region of the world do the largest
number of Muslims live?

a) Europe
b) North Africa
c) The Middle East
d) South and Southeast Asia
e) Sub-Saharan Africa
Answer: D
21. Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi
both appealed to which of the following
as a base of support?

a) Warlords, wealthy landowners, and

merchants
b) Westernized elites
c) Traditional rulers
d) Peasants
e) Urban factory workers
Answer: D
22. Which of the following led to the most dramatic change
in the status of Chinese peasant women in the 1940s
and 1950s?

a) The policies of Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) that attempted

to give rural women more economic opportunities
b) Maoist principles that banned arranged marriages and
made women an important part of the Communist
women’s movement.
c) The Christian missionaries and their work among
peasant families
d) The success of the Japanese during the occupation in
making men and women equal participants in the
economy
e) United Nations policies that provided women in rural
China with resources and an education
Anwer: B
23. Which of the following countries
practiced indirect rule in governing its
colonizes in Africa?

a) Portugal
b) France
c) Germany
d) Great Britain
e) Belgium
Answer: D
24. “Perestroika is an urgent necessity arising from
the profound processes of development in our
socialist society. This society is ripe for
change.”

Which of the following spoke the words above?

a) Adolph Hitler
b) Lenin
c) Karl Marx
d) Boris Yeltsin
e) Mikhail Gorbachev
Answer: E
25. Western European foreign policy in the
late 1800s was characterized by:

a) Pan-Slavism, colonialism, and an arms

race
b) Détente, colonialism, and an arms race
c) Imperialism, militarism, and deterence
d) An arms race, imperialism, and a series
of alliances
e) Containment, détente, and the domino
theory
Answer: D