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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The treaty also permitted travel on which river?
(a) Li.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Yangtze.
(d) Irtysh Irtysh.

2. A tribute system was developed in the _____ Islands.
(a) Korean.
(b) Ryukyu.
(c) Canary.
(d) Kyoto.

3. The Count managed to open Urga, which is located in which region?
(a) Burma.
(b) Hong-Kong.
(c) North Vietnam.
(d) Mongolia.

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

5. China has produced a greater share of total world GDP than any Western civilization in ____ of the last 20 centuries.
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which direction did the nomadic groups tend to stay?

2. Who was president of the United States at that time?

3. Which is not one of the countries mentioned as a location in China's periphery?

4. China saw itself as being in the center of the world and often referred to itself as the _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss China's long experience with naval expeditions and exploits.

2. What was the Nian Rebellion? When did it occur? Who took over the government?

3. What were the The Qiying-Pottinger negotiations? What did the negotiations change between China and the West?

4. What did China do to compete with Japan and Russia? When did the Chinese realize that they were not all powerful?

5. Abbé Régis-Evariste Huc made observations about China. What did Huc write?

6. What does Kissinger say about the beginning of the decline of China?

7. What was the Taiping Rebellion? When did it take place?

8. How does Kissinger address the history of the Chinese-Indian borders?

9. How does the existence and myth of the Yellow Emperor relate to the history of Confucius?

10. The culmination of Chinese warring was two and a half centuries of turmoil. To what does Kissinger compare this era?

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