Top 350+ Solved Modern World History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. During the Boer War the British first insinuated:
a. firing squads
b. concentration camps
c. barbed wire
d. None of the above
Q. In general late nineteenth-century imperialism:
a. involved complete independent entrepreneurial activity by merchant and traders
b. was built entirely on trade in opium
c. gave rise new patterns of settlement and social discipline
d. was very little different from the imperialism of the past
Q. Why did the Europeans control such a small portion in Africa in the 1800s?
a. Africa had no natural resources that the Europeans needed
b. Europeans did not need new markets
c. Europeans were focused on building empires through acquisition of other European territories
d. Africa had powerful armies, rivers were hard to navigate, and Europe
Q. The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was ferociously repressed by the forces of:
a. the United States
b. Britain, France and Italy
c. Japan, Russia and Germany
d. All of the above
Q. The building of the Suez Canal resulted from the economic and political involvementin Egypt of:
a. France and Italy
b. Russia and France
c. Britain and France
d. Britain
Q. After the French made Algeria a department:
a. all French settlers were given full rights to citizenship
b. the suffrage was given to all male residents
c. and settlers began to civilize indigenous peoples
d. none of the above
Q. One of the richest opium-growing areas in the world located in
a. Eastern China
b. Sumatra
c. Japan
d. North East India
Q. In 1900 there were only three independent African nations. Two of these wereAbyssinia and Morocco. Which was the third?
a. Liberia
b. Libya
c. Union of South Africa
d. Egypt
Q. What was NOT a major motivating factor for the European powers in their scramblefor Africa?
a. To gain prestige
b. To gain economic advantage
c. To bring civilization and Christianity to Africa
d. To gain strategic advantage
Q. The “white man’s burden” was notorious concept popularized by:
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Karl Pearson
c. Cecil Rhodes
d. Joseph Chamberlain
Q. Christian missionaries in India wanted to:
a. westernize India
b. defer to local culture
c. replace blind superstition
d. all of the above
Q. Which of the following did not embrace “scientific racism”?
a. Hubertine Auclert
b. Francis Galton
c. John Stuart Mill
d. Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Q. The London Pan-African Congress of 1900:
a. was funded and organized by the British government
b. grew out of an international tradition of anti-slavery movements
c. decided that slavery was not incompatible with European imperialist endeavors
d. never met
Q. By 1902, what percentage of Africa had succumbed to the European “Scramble forAfrica”
a. 11 percent
b. 30 Percent
c. 50 percent
d. 90 percent