Chapter 5 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. The Treaty of Allahabad granted the British East India Company the right to ___________________ across a large area of territory in South Asia.

convert Hindus to Christianity correct incorrect

collect and administer tax revenue correct incorrect

select the caliphs correct incorrect

close textile factories correct incorrect

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To honor Zumbi of Palmares, _________ observes a national holiday known as Black Consciousness Day.

Angola correct incorrect

Brazil correct incorrect

Cuba correct incorrect

Portugal correct incorrect

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. For ___________, any claim of absolute power by a monarch violated the social contract that creates a state in the first place.

Cardinal Richelieu correct incorrect

Peter the Great correct incorrect

Aurangzeb correct incorrect

John Locke correct incorrect

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. In accepting the English Bill of Rights in 1689, King William and Queen Mary confirmed that ___________ must participate in decisions about taxation.

the Anglican Church correct incorrect

the nobility correct incorrect

the Parliament correct incorrect

the heirs to the throne correct incorrect

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. Compared to the territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Empire in China was:

larger. correct incorrect

smaller. correct incorrect

about the same. correct incorrect

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. Through imperial decrees, Peter the Great of Russia sought to govern what kind of facial hair men could grow.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. In 1645, the chief advisor to the first Qing emperor issued a decree that Chinese men had to adopt:

Manchu sons and make them their legal heirs. correct incorrect

the Manchu pronunciation of certain Chinese words. correct incorrect

the Buddhist religion, as described in the emperor’s own writings. correct incorrect

the Manchu hairstyle called the queue. correct incorrect

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. Qing Dynasty rulers would periodically _________ to reinforce a connection between the regime and the population.

dismantle and rebuild public works correct incorrect

hold elections correct incorrect

tour the empire correct incorrect

shave their heads correct incorrect

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. The _______ made especially effective use of horses in building an empire across the southern plains of North America, covering a large swath of today's Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

Pueblo correct incorrect

Comanches correct incorrect

Suzhou correct incorrect

Otomi correct incorrect

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. During King Philip's War, Metacomet led the ______ against English settlers in New England.

Comanche correct incorrect

French correct incorrect

Miqmaq correct incorrect

Algonquians correct incorrect

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. The Middle Passage refers to:

the journey of captive Africans transported across the Atlantic into New World slavery. correct incorrect

contested parts of the Quran, which caused the Sunni-Shi'a schism. correct incorrect

the sea route to Asia sought by European explorers, also known as the Northwest Passage. correct incorrect

the route across the central Asia linking the Ottoman and Mughal Empires. correct incorrect

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. Records of the slave trade reveal that more than _________ enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas between 1514 and 1866.

one million correct incorrect

three million correct incorrect

five million correct incorrect

twelve million correct incorrect

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. African regions with large numbers of Christians appear to have been less subject to the depredations of the slave trade.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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Recent studies have come to the conclusion that Olaudah Equiano's description of the ____________ is consistent with the facts, even if it is not from firsthand experience.

Seven Years' War correct incorrect

Middle Passage of slaves to the New World correct incorrect

slave markets of Savannah, Georgia correct incorrect

sugar production processes of the Caribbean correct incorrect

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. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, housed at Emory University, reveals:

the decline of the slave trade in the seventeenth century. correct incorrect

the extent of conversion to Christianity among enslaved Africans. correct incorrect

the frequency and importance of resistance and shipboard revolts by the enslaved. correct incorrect

the absence French participation in the slave trade. correct incorrect

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. According to the terms of an edict issued in 1685, _______ were expelled from the French Caribbean, and no faith other than Roman Catholicism could be practiced in the region, even among enslaved people.

Jews correct incorrect

Muslims correct incorrect

Jansenists correct incorrect

Jesuits correct incorrect

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. Sunni _________ forced the Safavid ruler Shah Sultan Husayn to abdicate in the 1720s.

Arabs correct incorrect

Ottomans correct incorrect

Afghans correct incorrect

Mughals correct incorrect

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. During the ___________, the British victory against the French at Quebec solidified British claims to rule in North America.

the Thirty Years' War correct incorrect

the War of Spanish Succession correct incorrect

the Seven Years' War correct incorrect

the English Civil War correct incorrect

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. The treaty between Shah Alam II and Lord Clive confirmed the British as the dominant European power in:

China correct incorrect

South Asia correct incorrect

the South Pacific correct incorrect

South Africa correct incorrect

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. The 1765 Stamp Act was part of a broader British imperial strategy to:

assert greater control over affairs in North America. correct incorrect

raise sufficient revenue to compensenate slave owners for abolition. correct incorrect

compensate for the loss of territory in South Asia. correct incorrect

convince the Chinese Emperor to open additional ports to British commerce. correct incorrect