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- Both the wearing of corsets in Europe in the
nineteenth century and the custom of footbind-
ing in China were designed
(A) for use among lower-class women
(B) to deny women status in their respective
society
(C) to restrict women to work in the fields
(D) to restrict women’s freedom of activity- The most useful tool used to trace patterns of
migration is
(A) agricultural methodology
(B) a deposit of artifacts used in trade
(C) language diffusion
(D) disease transmission- Japan was more accepting of Western advances
than China in the nineteenth century because
(A) Japan feared the power of Great Britain in
East Asia
(B) Japan feared the power of Korea
(C) Japanese leaders wanted a democracy pat-
terned after the United States
(D) Japan recognized the need to open up trade
relations with the West in order to increase
its national power- Which of the following societies did NOT share
a similar knowledge of metallurgy?
(A) Kushites
(B) Incas
(C) Bantu peoples
(D) Aryans- The concept of extraterritoriality involves
(A) unique economic privileges within a foreign
country
(B) the grant of citizenship to foreigners
(C) the annexation of new territories
(D) the privileged leagal treatment for
foreigners- The cartoon above comments on the anti-
AIDS efforts of the World Health Organization.
Which of the following best summarizes the
cartoon?
(A) AIDS patients are opposed to World Health
Organization treatment policies.
(B) The World Health Organization is making
moral judgments against AIDS patients.
(C) The World Health Organization is winning
the war on AIDS one person at a time.
(D) The efforts of the World Health Organiza-
tion to solve the AIDS problem are insuf-
ficient in light of the problem’s severity.- Which of the following was NOT the result of
colonialism in the period 1750 to 1914?
(A) Global trade increased significantly.
(B) National identities among subject peoples
were eliminated.
(C) Global migration increased because of
imperialist recruitment of labor forces.
(D) Sometimes imperialists built a plantation
economy around a traditional crop of the
colony.- The world region most profoundly affected by
AIDS is
(A) North America
(B) Latin America
(C) Africa
(D) Southeast Asia