Chapter 35
Rebirth and Revolution:Nation-Building in East Asiaand the Pacific Rim
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Following World War II, where was the Guomindang government based?
A) Beijing
B) Honshu
C) Taiwan
D) Singapore
Answer: C
Page Ref: 871
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
2) The leader of the Guomindang was ______.
A) Mao Zedong
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Zhou Enlai
D) Chiang Kai-shek
Answer: D
Page Ref: 871
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
3) The Liberal Democratic Party dominated in ______from 1955 to 1990.
A) Vietnam
B) Japan
C) South Korea
D) China
Answer: B
Page Ref: 872
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
4) The capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea is______.
A) Pyongyang
B) Taejon
C) Seoul
D) Hanseong
Answer: A
Page Ref: 871
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
5) The capital of the Republic of Korea is ______.
A) Hanseong
B) Taejon
C) Seoul
D) Pyongyang
Answer: C
Page Ref:871
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
6) The Korean War started under ______
A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) Harry Truman
C) Franklin Roosevelt
D) John F. Kennedy
Answer: B
Page Ref: 873
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
7) Which of these was a British colony until 1997?
A) Singapore
B) Taiwan
C) Korea
D) Hong Kong
Answer: D
Page Ref: 874
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
8) The leader of South Korea after World War II, pushed out of office in 1960, was ______.
A) Park Chung-hee
B) Kim Young-sam
C) Kim Dae-jung
D) Syngman Rhee
Answer: D
Page Ref: 877
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
9) Which of these was founded by Chung Ju-Yung?
A) North Korea
B) the Liberal Democratic Party
C) Hyundai
D) Japan, Incorporated
Answer: C
Page Ref: 878
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
10) Which of these men came to power in Taiwan in 1978?
A) Chiang Ching-kuo
B) Lee Kuan Yew
C) Mao Zedong
D) Deng Xiaoping
Answer: A
Page Ref: 878
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
11) The first ruler of Singapore was ______.
A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Lee Kuan Yew
C) Jiang Qing
D) Zhou Enlai
Answer: B
Page Ref: 879
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
12) The capital of the People’s Republic of China was ______.
A) Nanjing
B) Taipei
C) Beijing
D) Hong Kong
Answer: C
Page Ref: 883
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
13) The People’s Liberation Army was the army of ______.
A) the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea
B) the Republic of China
C) Singapore
D) the People’s Republic of China
Answer: D
Page Ref: 883
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
14) The Mass Line approach was Mao Zedong’s ______.
A) version of Marxism
B) economic policy
C) plan for rapid industrialization
D) cultural revolution
Answer: B
Page Ref: 884
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
15) The goal of the Great Leap Forward was ______.
A) industrialization
B) agricultural collectivization
C) reviving traditional Chinese crafts
D) closer relations with the Soviet Union
Answer: A
Page Ref: 884
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
16) Which of these came to power in the 1960s in China?
A) pragmatists
B) Chiang Kai-shek
C) Mao Zedong
D) the Gang of Four
Answer: A
Page Ref: 886
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
17) Which of these was one of the pragmatists?
A) Jiang Qing
B) Liu Shaoqi
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Mao Zedong
Answer: B
Page Ref: 886
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
18) Jiang Qing was the wife of ______.
A) Liu Shaoqi
B) Deng Xiaoping
C) Chiang Ching-kuo
D) Mao Zedong
Answer: D
Page Ref: 886
Topic:Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
19) Which of these was launched by Mao Zedong in 1965?
A) the Mass Line approach
B) the Great Leap Forward
C) the Cultural Revolution
D) collectivization
Answer: C
Page Ref:888
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
20) The Red Guard was composed of ______.
A) peasants
B) students
C) military officers
D) party cadres
Answer: B
Page Ref: 888
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
21) The leader of the Gang of Four was ______.
A) Zhou Enlai
B) Deng Xiaoping
C) Jiang Qing
D) Liu Shaoqi
Answer: C
Page Ref: 888
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
22) The Tayson Rebellion ended the ______dynasty.
A) Trinh
B) Nguyen
C) Tayson
D) Gia Long
Answer: B
Page Ref: 889
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
23) Minh Mang was the second emperor of the dynasty founded by ______.
A) Gia Long
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Vo Nguyen Giap
D) Ngo Dinh Diem
Answer: A
Page Ref: 890
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
24) Which of these Vietnamese leaders was supported by the United States?
A) Nguyen Anh
B) Minh Mang
C) Ngo Dinh Diem
D) Vo Nguyen Giap
Answer: C
Page Ref:892
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
25) Which of these was the communist guerilla movement in southern Vietnam?
A) Viet Minh
B) Viet Cong
C) Vietnamese Quoc Dan Dong
D) the Communist Party of Vietnam
Answer: B
Page Ref: 892-893
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Remember the Facts
26) Following World War II, Japanese emperors played essentially the same role as in what other period?
A) the Meiji restoration
B) the shogunate
C) Heian Japan
D) World War II
Answer: B
Page Ref: 872
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
27) Which of these was reflected in the division of Korea?
A) Japanese-Chinese hostilities
B) cold war rivalries
C) the Chinese civil war
D) the divisions of World War II
Answer: B
Page Ref: 872
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
28) Which of these was one of the most enduring relics of European imperialism?
A) Hong Kong
B) Singapore
C) North Korea
D) Taiwan
Answer: A
Page Ref: 874
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
29) The trend referred to as “Japan, Incorporated” ______trends in Japan in the interwar period.
A) was a sharp break from
B) abruptly ended
C) continued
D) ran counter to
Answer: C
Page Ref: 874
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
30) Which of these was most similar to Korea in terms of economic development?
A) contemporary China
B) Britain in the early 1800s
C) contemporary Egypt
D) Japan a decade earlier
Answer: D
Page Ref: 877
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
31) In Korea, companies like Daewoo and Hyundai ______.
A) were responsible for large-scale emigration from Korea
B) were essentially state-run
C) began to emerge in the 1980s
D) took care of every aspect of their employees lives
Answer: D
Page Ref: 878
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
32) In terms of Chinese-U.S. relations, the 1970s saw ______.
A) existing relations grow much closer
B) a complete switch
C) the end of all ties
D) continuity
Answer: B
Page Ref: 878
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
33) The table “Indices of Growth and Change in the Pacific Rim” in “Pacific Rim Growth” supports which of these statements?
A) In general, growth accelerated between 1965 and 1996.
B) Growth had stopped in most countries by 1996.
C) Most nations were no longer growing by 1965.
D) The entire region followed the same slowing trend between 1965 and 1996.
Answer: D
Page Ref: 880
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
34) In “Social and Economic Data” in “Pacific Rim Growth,” which of these appears to have had the most agricultural economy in 1996?
A) China
B) Japan
C) South Korea
D) Malaysia
Answer: A
Page Ref: 880
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
35) Which of these brought temporary cooperation between China’s Nationalists and communists?
A) Mao Zedong’s rise to power
B) Japanese invasion
C) the Guomindang
D) the cold war
Answer: B
Page Ref: 882
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
36) At the end of World War II, the Chinese communists controlled ______.
A) most of China
B) the YangziValley
C) much of northern China
D) only coastal areas
Answer: C
Page Ref: 882
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
37) Which of these groups proved critical to the triumph of the communists in China?
A) party cadres
B) intellectuals
C) the Gang of Four
D) peasants
Answer: D
Page Ref: 883
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
38) Mass Line was analogous with ______in Russia.
A) the Stalinist purges
B) the Bolshevik Revolution
C) the Decembrist revolution
D) collectivization
Answer: D
Page Ref: 884
Topic:Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
39) The Great Leap Forward can be characterized as a(n) ______.
A) moderate success
B) total failure
C) stunning success
D) expensive success
Answer: B
Page Ref: 884
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
40) The pragmatists represented ______.
A) the full implementation of Marxism in China
B) a rejection of Russian communism
C) a retreat from Marxist ideals
D) the success of the Great Leap Forward
Answer: C
Page Ref: 886
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
41) In Chinese society, the Nationalists advocated ______.
A) Buddhist values
B) modernizing reforms
C) Confucian traditions
D) dramatic new patterns
Answer: C
Page Ref: 886
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
42) The Cultural Revolution was analogous to ______in the Soviet Union.
A) collectivization
B) de-Stalinization
C) the Stalinist Purges
D) the Bolshevik Revolution
Answer: C
Page Ref: 888
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
43) Opium and alcohol sales in Vietnam under French rule were a result of ______.
A) overflow from the British opium trade in China
B) the French desire to make colonizing Vietnam worthwhile
C) rapid urbanization in Vietnam and increasingly difficult conditions
D) changing medical practices
Answer: B
Page Ref: 890
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
44) In Vietnam, communism was arguably a(n) ______.
A) product of Chinese rule
B) result of Soviet pressure
C) outgrowth of Vietnamese economic traditions
D) tool of independence
Answer: D
Page Ref: 891
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
45) Japaneserule in Vietnam had the effect of ______.
A) providing an opening for renewed liberation efforts
B) crushing communist rule
C) ending Western dominance there
D) bringing independence
Answer: A
Page Ref: 891
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
46) Compared to the Korean War, fighting in Vietnam in the same period was ______.
A) over sooner
B) more
C) less bloody
D) much more complicated
Answer: D
Page Ref: 891-893
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
47) The context for U.S. involvement in Vietnam was ______.
A) the cold war
B) the end of World War II
C) Japanese aggression
D) mercantilism
Answer: A
Page Ref: 892
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Understand the Connections
48) Like Germany at the end of World War II, Japan ______.
A) drastically reduced its military power
B) began a period of economic revival
C) was occupied by Western forces
D) was divided into four zones
Answer: C
Page Ref: 872
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Skill Level:Analyze the Past
49) Both Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin undertook agricultural reforms ______.
A) to reward their peasant supporters
B) as a first step towards rapid industrialization
C) to strike at their political opponents
D) to increase exports
Answer: B
Page Ref: 884
Topic:Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
Skill Level:Analyze the Past
50) Unlike Korea, the cold war left Vietnam ______.
A) divided
B) devastated
C) united
D) under a liberal democracy
Answer: C
Page Ref: 893
Topic:Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Skill Level:Analyze the Past
Essay Questions
51) What was the impact of World War II on Asian nations? Choose two countries and compare their experiences.
Page Ref: 871-872
Topic:East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
52) How did the experience of industrialization in Korea differ from and resemble industrialization in western Europe and the United States?
Page Ref: 877-878
Topic: The Pacific Rim: More Japans?
53) Why did the communists triumph in China?
Page Ref: 882-883
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
54) Compare the development of Chinese communism with Soviet communism. How do you account for differences and similarities?
Page Ref: 883-889
Topic: Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution
55) To what extent was Vietnam’s experience in the twentieth century unique, and to what extent was it part of broader developments?
Page Ref: 889-894
Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
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