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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first major attempt to right things with China was led by Britain's Lord George ______.
(a) Montbattan.
(b) Jessup.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Macartney.

2. The Chinese managed to pit which two countries against each other in Manchuria?
(a) France and Japan.
(b) Russia and Japan.
(c) Korea and Russia.
(d) China and India.

3. Which is not one of the nomadic groups mentioned?
(a) Uighurs.
(b) Mongols.
(c) Tibetans.
(d) Turks.

4. Count _____ Ignatieff served as the Czar's brilliant and devious young plenipotentiary.
(a) Nikolai.
(b) Petrov.
(c) Igor.
(d) Boris.

5. By 1860, the Russians had been in Beijing for ____ years.
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 150.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forces from which country were in place in which location at this time?

2. China underwent a "century of _____" before giving into national communism.

3. Traditionally, China did not on technology or military power but relied upon two of its most deeply traditional resources: the analytical abilities of its diplomats, and the endurance and ____________ of its people.

4. In what year did Zheng He's expeditions stop abruptly?

5. Before the _____ War, China saw diplomacy and international trade as a way to express its preeminence.

(see the answer key)

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