Multiple-Choice Exercise From the New York State Education Department. Regents High School Examination Internet. Available from http://www.nysedregents.nysed.gov/; accessed January 11, 2012.; All rights reserved. No commercial, for-profit use of this material is allowed. E-mail comments and questions to Tami Maloney.
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Elements of a Civilization
Features of a Nomadic Lifestyle
Basic Components of the Paleolithic Age
Human Life 50,000 Years Ago
Which quotation from the teachings of Confucius is most similar to the Golden Rule from Judeo- Christian teaching?
“If a ruler is upright, all will go well without orders.”
“By nature, men are pretty much alike. It is learning and practice that set them apart.”
“While a father or mother is alive, a son should not travel far.”
“Do not do to others what you do not wish for yourself.”
social class
educational achievement
accumulated wealth
political ability
demonstrate supremacy and strength in China
control the Mongols
stop European imperialism
impose Chinese culture and slavery on neighboring countries
Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo were similar in that both
ruled over vast empires that included diverse peoples
produced written records of their extensive travels
converted thousands of people to Christianity
fought to free their people from Mongol rule
breakdown of social order during the bubonic plague
power of special courts during the Inquisition
treatment of native peoples in Latin American nations
outcome of the famine in Ireland in the 1890s
One way Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII were similar is that they all were
Latin American revolutionary leaders
Reformation leaders
Impressionist painters
divine right monarchs
Ferdinand Magellen and Matthew Perry
Christopher Columbus and Genghis Khan
Vasco de Gama and Zheng He
Francisco Pizarro and Marco Polo
Which list of French leaders is in the correct chronological order?
Louis XVI → Napoleon → Robespierre
Robespierre → Napoleon → Louis XVI
Louis XVI → Robespierre → Napoleon
Napoleon → Louis XVI → Robespierre
industrialism
feudalism
imperialism
fascism
Which social class controlled most of the political, economic, and social power in colonial Latin America?
peninsulares
mestizos
creoles
native people
retain its traditional culture
westernize its society
give women equal rights
establish Islamic fundamentalism
During World War II, which event occurred last?
German invasion of Poland
Russian defense of Stalingrad
United States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
After World War II, the Soviet Union maintained control of many Eastern European nations mainly because these nations were
a source of new technology and skilled labor
near warm-water ports on the Mediterranean Sea
extensions of communist power
members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
One similarity in the actions of Ho Chi Minh and Jomo Kenyatta was that both leaders
introduced Western ideas to their societies
established democratic forms of government
led nationalist movements
supported separation of church and state
policy of appeasement
Cold War
decline of nationalism
Green Revolution
Which statement about the spread of nuclear weapons is a fact rather than an opinion?
Nations possessing nuclear weapons should not have to limit the production of weapons.
The spread of nuclear weapons was a smaller problem in the 1990s than it was in the 1970s.
The United States and Russia signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties during the 1970s.
Only developing nations are concerned about the spread of nuclear weapons.
