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Bentley Ch. 15 Test India And The Indian Ocean Basin

Multiple choice test based on Bentley Traditions and Encounters fifth edition

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 1546 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
Harsha dominated northern India in the 16th century as a conqueror and later an administrator. To what extent did Harsha centralize northern India?

He founded a small kingdom that occupied northwest India

He was successful in unification of the norther third and administered it with help from local rulers

He was unsuccessful at administering his empire beyond central India

He unified southern India under one government

Bentley Ch. 13 Islam

Multiple choice test based on Bentley Ch. 13 The Expansive Realm of Islam

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 1356 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
What in Muhammad's background may have influenced his acceptance of monotheism?

Muhammad's family had always been monotheistic

The Arab peninsula had equal numbers of monotheists and polytheists

Muhammad's wife had been raised as a monotheist

Muhammad was engaged in long-distance trade where he came into contact with monotheists

Bentley Ch. 23 Test

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 394 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
When Martin Luther objected to the Catholic church, what was his original issue?

A vernacular Bible

An end to celibacy

The sale of indulgences

The display of relics

Bentley Ch. 38 Test

Questions: 19 | Attempts: 264 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2023

Sample Question
Popular unrest forced Todor Zhivkov, eastern Europe's longest surviving communist dictator, to resign in 1989 as leader of what country?

Romania

Czech Republic

Bulgaria

Poland

Bentley Ch. 31 Societies At Crossroads: Modernization

The Ottoman state began as one of many small Turkish states that emerged in Asia. During our coverage of Bentley Ch. 31 Societies at Crossroads: Modernization we got to understand how the Ottoman Empire, China, Russia and...

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 713 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which of the following statements is NOT true about capitulations?

They were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans

They allowed for the establishment of tax-exempt banks and commercial enterprises

They were imposed on the Ottomans by the Europeans

They permitted foreign governments to levy duties on goods

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Bentley Ch. 37 Test

Questions: 19 | Attempts: 577 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a

Muslim extremist

Hindu extremist

British nationalist

Disgruntled follower

Bentley Ch. 36 Test World War 2 And The Cold War

Bentley Ch. 36 Test World War 2 and the Cold War

Questions: 25 | Attempts: 953 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
The ﬁrst act of agression which ended the post-Great War peace was the

German Anschluss with Austria

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Japan's invasion of Manchuria

Spanish Civil War

Bentley Ch. 34 Test Age Of Anxiety

Bentley Ch. 34 Test Age of Anxiety

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 993 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
The term "lost generation" was coined by

E. Remarche

John Steinbeck

Karl Barth

Gertrude Stein

Bentley Ch. 33 Test The Great War

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 643 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
By the end of the 19th century, nationalistic movements resulted in independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT

Bulgaria

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Bentley Ch. 30 Americas And Independence

Bentley Ch. 30 Americas and Independence

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 981 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
The term MANIFEST DESTINY was used to describe

The inevitability of American independence from Britain

The superiority of the U.S. Constitution

The inevitability of American dominion over all of North America

The superiority of the North to the South during the Civil War

Bentley Ch. 29 Test Industrial Society

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 1092 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which of the following was NOT an economic advantage enjoyed by Britain in the 18th century?

Abundant and accessible coal deposits

Local sources of raw cotton

Abundant skilled and unskilled labor

Access to water transportation

Bentley Ch. 28 Revolutions

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 771 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2023

Sample Question
Which of the following was NOT one of the causes of the French Revolution of 1789?

A staggering national debt

Accusation of treason against Louis XVI

Resentment at the privileges of the aristocracy

The extravagance of Marie Antoinette and the court at Versailles

Bentley Ch. 22 Global Connections

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 745 | Last updated: Mar 17, 2023

Sample Question
Why is Vasco Da Gama's voyage in 1499 significant in a global context?

It supported Columbus' claim that the world was round

It demonstrated that there was a faster passage to Asia than the traditional overland routes

It showed the south and east Asian empires that Europe was a mighty trading power and foreshadowed Europe's coming dominance

It opened the doors to direct maritime trading and helped to establish permanent links between Europe and Asia

Bentley Ch. 16 Christian Society In Western Europe

Bentley Ch. 16 Christian Society in Western Europe

Multiple-choice test based on Bentley Traditions and Encounters

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 746 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2023

Sample Question
Charlemagne hoped to build a western European empire which might rival his contemporaries

The Abbasids and Byzantines

The Byzantines and the Umayyads

The Qin and the Guptas

The Olmecs and the Incas

Bentley Ch. 1 Before History

Questions: 25 | Attempts: 363 | Last updated: Mar 17, 2023

Sample Question
In regard to genetic makeup and body chemistry, the difference between humans and apes is

None

1 percent

10 percent

50 percent

90 percent