2018-2019 Transition Global Examination Practice

A social studies teacher cautions students to be careful when using primary sources in their study of history. The teacher makes this statement because all primary sources

• are fragile and easily damaged

• require analysis and interpretation

• present accurate and balanced views

• serve as a means of propaganda and distortion

• Connections between places and regions

• Patterns of population distribution

• Urban land use patterns

Which social science would most likely focus on the study of these topics from a spatial perspective?

• anthropology

• political science

• human geography

• psychology

Speaker A: The market should be controlled by supply and demand, not the whims of a parliament.

Speaker B: History will administer justice to the greedy bourgeoisie when the proletariat revolt.

Which type of economy is Speaker A reflecting and Speaker B represents the ideas of which of the following?

• A. Laissez Faire

  B. Karl Marx

• A. Self Sufficient

  B. Thomas Malthus

• A. Barter

  B. Robert Owen

• A. Mixed

  B. Cecil Rhodes

Maximilien Robespierre is best known in French history for

• rallying French support for the American Revolution

• trying to eliminate enemies of the French Revolution

• attempting to preserve the monarchy of Louis XVI

• enforcing the principles of the Napoleonic Code

"Crop rotation, a natural form of pest control, was used less as Irish agriculture switched mainly to growing potatoes. Individual farms were located close together, making it easy for the fungus to spread. After the famine, the amount of farmland cultivated decreased by approximately 50%. Before the famine, 8 million people lived in Ireland. In the 1960s, 3 million lived there".

— From Evan D. G. Fraser, Conservation Ecology 6 Based on this information, what was a contributing cause of the Irish famine?

• a 50% reduction in the amount of farmland

• a shortage of farmers due to population loss

• farming methods that promoted the spread of the potato fungus

• increased use of pesticides

A major goal of both the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion was to

• establish a democratic republic

• remove foreign interference

• gain religious freedom

• lower the tax burden for the peasants

. . .In the rest of the world European political assumptions are so taken for granted that nobody thinks about them anymore; but at least one of these assumptions, the modern belief in secular civil government, is an alien creed in a region [the Middle East] most of whose inhabitants, for more than a thousand years, have avowed faith in a Holy Law that governs all of life, including government and politics. . . . — David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace

What is a valid conclusion based on this reading?

• Most European states base their political systems on remaining faithful.

• Political systems in the Middle East often reflect the traditional values of their society.

• Belief in secular government is universal.

• The Middle East has been a leader in the development of democratic states.

The terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the global economic depression of the 1930s both contributed to the

• Scramble for Africa

• Amritsar Massacre

• rise of a fascist dictatorship in Germany

• formation of the Congress of Vienna

Replaced Islamic law with secular law

Encouraged industrial expansion

Increased the rights of women

Inspired nationalism ?

To whom does this refer?

• Kemal Atatürk

• Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

• Theodor Herzl

• Emperor Meiji

A goal of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931) and of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was to

• spread the practice of Shinto

• open trading networks

• prevent German imperialism

• acquire industrial resources