Let's Practice AP World MULTIPLE CHOICE!

The trade described in the passage is an early example of which of the following?

• The economic decline of Asian states resulting from the importation of cheap consumer goods from Europe.

• The growing economic influence of European immigrants in China.

• The declining political power of European joint-stock companies in Asia because of states assuming direct imperial control.

• The use of economic imperialism by European merchants and states.

The arguments made by supporters of the opium trade were most similar to arguments made in the early nineteenth century by supporters of the continued use of which of the following?

• Artisanal and craft production, as opposed to the factory system.

• Mercantilist trade practices, as opposed to free trade.

• African slave labor on sugar plantations in the Americas.

• Women's and children's labor in the production of luxury goods in Chinese households.

The views expressed in the two passages were most directly enabled by which of the following economic trends in the late twentieth century?

• Many of the defeated countries in the Second World War received generous economic assistance from the United States after the war.

• Governments in newly independent postcolonial states sought to limit their countries' economic reliance on the former colonial powers.

• The governments of many developed Western countries adopted policies of economic liberalization and deregulation.

• Governments in Asia cooperated with private businesses in an effort to maximize exports and acquire foreign currencies from Europe and the United States.

The corporate philosophy reflected in the two passages most directly contributed to which of the following?

• The inability of the Soviet-planned economy to compete successfully with the economies of the United States and other Western countries.

• The shift of manufacturing capacity from the postindustrial countries of the West to the new manufacturing centers in Asia and Latin America.

• The passage of stronger measures to safeguard workers' and consumers' rights in many developed countries.

• Increased popular hostility toward economic migrants and migrations in many countries.