5 Steps to a 5 AP World History, 2014-2015 Edition
Practice Test One h 275
- All of the following are true concerning the
African slave trade EXCEPT
(A) Portuguese slavers carried slaves to Atlantic
islands
(B) in sub-Saharan Africa, wealth was deter-
mined by control of human labor rather
than by private property
(C) most slaves exported from Africa came
from central Africa
(D) some slaves were transported across the
Sahara to the Mediterranean basin
- Which is true concerning Indian Ocean trade
in the period 1450 to 1750?
(A) Portuguese dominance increased after
1600.
(B) Indian Ocean mariners sailing from China
to East Africa relied on the monsoons.
(C) English merchants concentrated on
Indonesian trade.
(D) The emergence of the joint-stock company
increased commercial risks.
- Which of the following is NOT true regarding
the Seven Years’ War?
(A) It was the fi rst global war.
(B) It occurred during the period of Portuguese
dominance in the Indian Ocean.
(C) It laid the basis for British imperial
dominance.
(D) It involved the Indian Ocean and the
Caribbean.
- All of the following are true of political institu-
tions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu-
ries EXCEPT
(A) Europe experienced the rule of absolute
monarchs
(B) Enlightenment theories altered Russian
political thought
(C) Japan’s government became more
centralized
(D) Ottoman power was in decline
- In the early nineteenth century, the most
urbanized nation was
(A) China
(B) Russia
(C) the United States
(D) Great Britain
56. Which is NOT true of Russian expansion in
the period 1500–1800?
(A) It was stopped by the Ottoman Empire.
(B) It included expansion into Siberia.
(C) It added territory by participating in the
partition of Poland.
(D) It forged a cultural alliance with Slavic
peoples in the Balkans.
57. What was the response of China to foreign
infl uence in the period 1450 to 1750?
(A) The Chinese were unimpressed by
European technology.
(B) The Qing closely supervised foreign mer-
chants in China.
(C) Under Qing rule, most Chinese ports were
open to foreigners.
(D) Chinese authorities established trading
companies patterned after those of the
Europeans.
58. The growth of rubber and palm oil production
in Africa produced all of the following effects
EXCEPT
(A) greater technology transfer to Africans
(B) production concentrated around European
needs and desires
(C) disruption of village life
(D) malnutrition
59. In the period between 1750 and 1914, the Chi-
nese empire was weakened by all of the following
EXCEPT
(A) the Boxer Rebellion
(B) defense treaties with Great Britain and
Japan
(C) the opium trade
(D) loss of tribute
60. Which of the following is true of the Russians
and Japanese from 1750 to 1914?
(A) They both built increasingly powerful
empires.
(B) Their governments encouraged rapid
industrialization.
(C) They both had a well-educated populace.
(D) Both had decentralized governments.
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