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Imperialism in the Far East: China and Japan

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

European Great Power nation that easily defeated the Chinese in the 1839-1842 Opium Wars:

a)

Russia

b)

Italy

c)

Britain

d)

Prussia

2.

In the 1842 Treaty of Nanking concluding the Opium Wars, China had to concede to European merchants in China ________________ rights, allowing them to get away with breaking many of China's laws.

a)

natural

b)

civil

c)

human

d)

extraterritorial

3.

Chinese mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who guided Chinese peasants in a great rebellion against the ruling Qing Dynasty in the 1850s:

a)

Hong Xiuquan

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Sun Yat-sen

d)

Guangxu

4.

One of the following was not a reform movement of the late Qing Emperors to bring modernity to China:

a)

self-strengthening movement, 1860s

b)

constitutional monarchy, 1917-

c)

Guangxu's reforms of 1898

d)

Boxer revolt of 1900

5.

Type of Imperialism practiced by the Great Power nations in China, wherein the Imperialists took increasing control over Chinese trade and investments:

a)

colony

b)

sphere of influence

c)

protectorate

d)

vassal state

6.

The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was a Chinese nationalist uprising directed against European foreigners and

a)

Buddhists

b)

Muslims

c)

Hindus

d)

Christians

7.

Japanese Emperor restored to the throne as ruler in 1867, leading his nation on a path that followed Western industrialization, technological development, and military restructuring:

a)

Tokugawa Ieyasu

b)

Hirohito

c)

Mutsuhito

d)

Hideki Tojo

8.

U.S. president who commissioned Commodore Matthew Perry to sail his squadron of black steamships to Tokyo in 1853 to establish trade relations with Japan:

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Martin Van Buren

c)

Millard Fillmore

d)

Abraham Lincoln

9.

Japan obtained control of this East Asian nation in 1905 following its defeat of Imperial Russia at war:

a)

Philippines

b)

Korea

c)

Indonesia

d)

Vietnam

10.

Popular Japanese printing method developed in the 1700s:

a)

linotype printing

b)

metal type printing

c)

xerox printing

d)

woodblock printing