CUET History MCQs The Rise of Modern China

Question. Lord Amherst, the ex-governor of India was sent to China:
(a) In 1800
(b) In 1815
(c) In 1816
(d) In 1890

Answer: C

Question. What is the consequence of second opium war?
(a) Economic condition of China improved
(b) The door of China was opened for the western countries
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these

Answer: C

Question. Who signed the Treaty of Tientsin with the British?
(a) Yeh’s yamen and Wei Yuan
(b) Ch’i-ying and Kuei-liang
(c) Kuei-liang and Hua-sha-na
(d) Ho Kuei-ch’ing and Hua-sha-na

Answer: C

Question. Treaty of Tientsin 1858 included:
(a) Opening of twenty new ports
(b) Freedom of movement in all China for missionaries, Catholic and Protestant alike.
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) Neither (a) nor (b)

Answer: B

Question. The British expeditionary force for Opium War was under:
(a) Captain Elliot
(b) Sir Henry Pottinger
(c) Elgin
(d) Real Admiral George Elloit

Answer: D

Question. Opium War was divided into:
(a) Two stages
(b) Three stages
(c) Four stage
(d) Five stages

Answer: B

Question. In which year Macartney Mission was sent to China?
(a) 1792
(b) 1793
(c) 1794
(d) 1795

Answer: A

Question. Who was the emperor’s nephew appointed to against the British force during the second stage of Opium War?
(a) I-shan
(b) Ch’i-ying
(c) I-li-pu
(d) Ch’i-shan

Answer: A

Question. What was Kowtow in China?
(a) Humiliating way of salutation
(b) Humiliating Tax
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Neither of the two

Answer: A

Question. Captain Elliot took the Bogue forts in the late:
(a) February 1841
(b) March 1841
(c) November 1841
(d) December 1841

Answer: A

Question. The third stage of Opium War began since the arrival of _______ in Macao:
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Admiral Elliot
(c) Theodore de Lagrene
(d) Sir Henry Pottinger

Answer: D

Question. World geography was compiled by the governor of Fukien, _____in 1850:
(a) Ch’i-shan
(b) Hsu Chi-yu
(c) Mu-chang-a
(d) Wei-Yuan

Answer: B

Question. The formal Treaty of Nanking consist of:
(a) Five articles
(b) Nine articles
(c) Thirteen articles
(d) Seventeen articles

Answer: C

Question. By the late 18th century, there was a flourishing triangular trade between:
(a) India, USA, Britain
(b) Britain, Canada, Canton
(c) Canton, India and Britain
(d) China, Canton, India

Answer: C

Question. The shift of Business to______naturally reduced the calls of English ships at Canton:
(a) Peking
(b) Sanghai
(c) Yun-t’ai-shan
(d) Ningpo

Answer: D

Question. Who singed the Treaty of Wanghsia for the United State?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Caleb Cushing
(c) Andrew Johnson
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer: B

Question. The Opium War introduced a century of humiliation for the:
(a) Chinese
(b) British
(c) French
(d) India

Answer: A

Question. Who wrote The Break up of China and toured the Unites States to advocate the cause?
(a) Sir Julian Pauncefote
(b) John Hay
(c) A.E. Hippisley
(d) Lord Charles Beresford

Answer: D

Question. The treaty of Bogue was signed in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1855
(c) 1860
(d) 1873

Answer: A

Question. Politically, the cession of Hong Kong gave …… a foothold in China for further advancement:
(a) Britain
(b) Russia
(c) France
(d) Africa

Answer: A

Question. Mencius observed that a period of order was perforce followed by a:
(a) Period of hegemony
(b) Period of harvest
(c) Period of disorder
(d) Period of revival

Answer: C

Question. The large “joint government and merchant undertakings” established in 1891 was the:
(a) Kweichow Ironworks
(b) China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company
(c) Imperial Telegraph Administration
(d) Shanghai Cloth Mills

Answer: A

Question. The arch-conservative who vehemently opposed the Self-Strengthening was:
(a) Prince Kung
(b) Grand Secretary Wo-jen
(c) Empress Dowager Tz’u-hsi
(d) Captain Sherard Osborn of the Royal Navy

Answer: B

Question. The Chinese believed generally that a minor disturbance was to be expected every:
(a) Ten years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Thirty years
(d) Forty years

Answer: C

Question. During the Self-Strengthening period, the Nanking Arsenal was put under the direction of:
(a) Paul d’Aiguebelle
(b) Prosper Giquel
(c) James Gordon
(d) Halliday Macartney

Answer: D

Question. The first Chinese graduate of Yale (1854) was:
(a) Yen Fu
(b) Hu Lin
(c) Liang-Kiang
(d) Yung Ming

Answer: D

Question. The flooding of the Yangtze River in the 1840s did not cover the province of:
(a) Hupeh
(b) Anhwei
(c) Kiangsu
(d) Kwangsi

Answer: D

Question. The Hakka were original residents of Central China who had migrated to:
(a) Hupeh and Chekiang
(b) Kwangtung and Kwangsi
(c) Anhwei and Honan
(d) Jianxi and Kiangsu

Answer: B

Question. The Kiangnan Arsenal was established in 1865 at:
(a) Sanghai
(b) Peking
(c) Wuhan
(d) Tientsin

Answer: A

Question. The railroad between Shanghai to Woosung which was ripped off its bed by mobs was built in 1874 by the:
(a) French
(b) British
(c) Japanese
(d) Russian

Answer: B

Question. An American Southern Baptist missionary stationed at Canton in 1847 was:
(a) Rev. Robert Abraham Dole
(b) Rev. Isaiah J. Moses
(c) Rev. Nicholas Smith
(d) Rev. Issachar J. Roberts

Answer: D

Question. Pai Shang-ti hui means:
(a) Association of God Worshippers
(b) Association of Idol Destroyers
(c) Association of Hakka Community
(d) Association of Native Religions

Answer: A

Question. The largest upheaval during the Ch’ing regime in China was:
(a) Tungan Rebellion
(b) Nien Rebellion
(c) Taiping Rebellion
(d) Moslem Rebellion

Answer: C

Question. In 1898 some forty to fifty reform decrees were issued in rapid succession for:
(a) 101 days
(b) 102 days
(c) 103 days
(d) 100 days

Answer: C

Question. The abolition of the eight-legged essay met with strong opposition from the Board of Rites, which was in charge of the:
(a) civil service examinations
(b) religious rituals
(c) moral codes
(d) ethical coducts

Answer: A

Question. Traditional Chinese subscribed to the theory that domestic and foreign invasion occurred when:
(a) Central power declined
(b) Financial power declined
(c) Military power declined
(d) Moral values declined

Answer: A

Question. The nearest Chinese translation of ‘Heaven and Earth Society’ is:
(a) T’ian-kuo hui
(b) T’ien-ti hui
(c) T’ien-wang hui
(d) T’ai-p’ing hui

Answer: B

Question. Ten Commandments, after Moses’, were composed by:
(a) Li Ching-fang
(b) Hung Jen-kan
(c) Hung Hsiu-ch’uan
(d) Shih Ta-k’ai

Answer: C

Question. The British diplomat in China during the Taiping Days was:
(a) Sir George Bonham
(b) Sir Michael Culkins
(c) Sir Matthew Johnson
(d) Sir Grant Griffins

Answer: A

Question. The French minister who visited China on December 1853 was:
(a) M. Braile Bailot
(b) M. Jean-Ellise
(c) M. de Bourboulon
(d) Louis Alexandre

Answer: C

Question. The Chief of the Hunan Army was:
(a) Tseng Kua-fan
(b) Ch’i Chi-kuang
(c) Hsiang-jung
(d) Li Hsiu-ch’eng

Answer: A

Question. A Protestant missionary handed Hung Hsiu-ch’uan a set of nine tracts called:
(a) “The Grand Union”
(b) “Creator’s Creation”
(c) “Alms for the Poor in Age of Hardship”
(d) “Good Words Exhorting the Age”

Answer: D

Question. In 1837, Hung Hsiu-ch’uan saw visions in which he was cleansed by:
(a) a young girl, the Heavenly Angel
(b) an old woman, the Heavenly Mother
(c) a young child, the Cupid
(d) a female saint, the Heavenly Auspice

Answer: B

Question. Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary army took Wuchang in:
(a) 1911
(b) 1910
(c) 1913
(d) 1912

Answer: A

Question. The most powerful leader of the Nien was:
(a) Li Ning-shia
(b) Chang Lo-hsing
(c) Tso Tsung-t’ang
(d) Ma Hua-lung

Answer: B

Question. In Western literature, the Moslem Rebellion was known as the:
(a) Panthay Rebellion
(b) Nisih Rebellion
(c) Yang Rebellion
(d) Ninghsia Rebellion

Answer: A

Question. The son of the Empress Dowager Tz’u-hsi, who was a minor when he became the:
Emperor, was
(a) Tsai-ch’un
(b) T’ung-chih
(c) Ch’eng-tung
(d) Tz’uan-kung

Answer: B

Question. A superintendent of trade for the three northern ports was established by the Ch’ing government at:
(a) Wuchang
(b) Canton
(c) Sanghai
(d) Tientsin

Answer: D

Question. The basic document of the Taiping State was called:
(a) “The Governance of the Heavenly Mandate”
(b) “The Regulations of the Heavenly Kingdom”
(c) “The Rules of the Heavenly Mandate”
(d) “The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom”

Answer: D

Question. The idea of communal utilization of land can be found in the ancient Chinese work:
(a) The Book of Li
(b) The Rites of Chou
(c) The Evolution of Peng
(d) The Works of Shi

Answer: B

Question. One of the more prominent foreigners who served in the Chinese international customs service, a graduate of Harvard in 1876 was:
(a) W. A. P. Martin
(b) Robert Hart
(c) H. B. Morse
(d) G. H. FitzRoy

Answer: C

Question. The American missionary who translate three paragraphs of international law from Vattel,before the Opium War was:
(a) Peter Parker
(b) John Mason
(c) Robert Campbell
(d) Danny Kimmich

Answer: A

Question. The Taiping formal proclamation to the country denounced the oppression of the Chinese by the:
(a) Ming
(b) Kang
(c) Manchu
(d) Jiang

Answer: C

Question. The base from which the first Ming emperor expelled the Mongol conquerors was:
(a) Canton
(b) Peking
(c) Wuchang
(d) Nanking

Answer: D

Question. The leading spirit of the Self-Strengthening was:
(a) Lian T’ing-nan
(b) Li Hung-chang
(c) Lin Tse-hsu
(d) Wei Yuan

Answer: B

Question. Despite its entire shortcoming, the Self-Strengthening Movement marked the emergence of:
(a) private property
(b) landed aristocrats
(c) feudalism
(d) industrialization

Answer: D

Question. Formosa was invaded in 1874 by:
(a) Japan
(b) Britain
(c) Russia
(d) France

Answer: A

Question. The Treaty of Nanking made no provisions against:
(a) The import of opium
(b) The plantation of poppy
(c) The production of opium
(d) The export of opium

Answer: A

Question. The Green Standard army had lost its vigor by the time of the:
(a) White Lotus Rebellion
(b) Revolt of Three Feudatories
(c) Sichuan Movement
(d) Boxer Uprising

Answer: A

Question. The most scandalous of the Self-Strengthening Movement was the misuse of 30 million taels of naval funds to construct the:
(a) Winter Palace
(b) Royal Resort
(c) Summer Palace
(d) Nanking Resort

Answer: C

Fill in the Blanks:

Question. The population of China rose from 143 million in 1741 to ............ in 1850.

Answer: 430 million

Question. The name for secret gangs in the Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu and Anhwei area was ...........

Answer: Nien

Question. The phenomenon of “dynastic cycle” described by Western scholars should more properly be called the theory of “............”

Answer: natural evolution of history

Question. The Taiping Revolution lasted for ..............years.

Answer: fourteen

Question. The social revolution that the Taipings failed to realize was partly carried on by ........ and his followers.

Answer: Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Question. ............found hope in the Taiping Movement and gained a new perspective on the possibility of peasant revolution.

Answer: Karl Marx

Question. The Moslem made up more than 20 percent or ............percent of the population of Yunnan.

Answer: 30

Question. Commonly known to the foreigners as the ‘foreign office’, established by the Ch’ing government was the ............

Answer: Tsungli Yamen

Question. Many Hakka took up ..............while the natives persisted in their worship of idols and spirits.

Answer: christianity

Question. Prince Kung appointed ........... inspector-general of customs on 7 April, 1861.

Answer: Horatio N. Layas

Question. The .............Dockyard was the second most important achievement of the Self- Strengthening Movement.

Answer: Foochow

Question. Kwangtung was located some ...............miles from Canton.

Answer: thirty

Question. Member of the London Missionary Society who had settled in Canton to translate the Bible was ..............

Answer: Dr. Robert Morrison

Question. The Taiping wore their hair long, hence they were also known as the ....................

Answer: “Long-haired banditti” or “Long Hair”

Question. Hung Hsiu-ch’uan was the ..........son of a farming family in Hua-hsien.

Answer: third

Question. The most drastic of the Taiping innovations was the abolition of the private ownership of land and ...............

Answer: property

Question. In Ch’ing China the landless peasant had to pay ............. of the yield for rent.

Answer: 50 percent

Question. The major occupations of the Hakka were small farming, charcoal-making and ...............

Answer: mining

Question. The Port of ........... the longest history of foreign trade and the widest foreign contact.

Answer: Cantonhad

Question. The Taiping Revolution was termed as the first peasant revolution in the history of Modern China by .............

Answer: Chinese Marxist historians

Question. The regular customs dues were reasonably ........... .

Answer: low

Question. Macartney was officially designated ........... and Plenipotentiary from the King of Great Britain to the emperor of China.

Answer: Ambassador Extraordinary

Question. After the triple intervention ..........asked the Ch’ing court for a naval base as a reward.

Answer: Germany

Question. The cutting of the China melon threatened the partition of the ............

Answer: Ch’ingempire

Question. Macartney Mission was warmly welcome at ..........

Answer: Tientsin

Question. Unlike his father ......., Emperor Chia-ch’ing was reserved and hesitant to received foreign envoys.

Answer: Ch’ien-lung

Question. On China’s part the disrespect displayed by ..............was utterly intolerable.

Answer: Amherst

Question. ...........pleaded for commiseration saying that his acceptance of the term of Treaty of Tientsin would cost him his head at the age of seventy-three.

Answer: Kuei-liang

Question. After the conclusion of the Treaties of Tientsin .......... home as courier of the treaty for the queen’s ratification.

Answer: Frederick Brucereturned

Question. For the ...... the opium war was one of reprisal, a necessary action to defend their right to trade in China.

Answer: British

Question. For the Chinese, Opium War was primarily a ........ opium.

Answer: Crusadeagainst

Question. The chief characteristic of the Canton trade was its s .............

Answer: Monopolistictructure

Question. On October 24, 1844, Theodore de Lagrene signed the Treaty of ............ France.

Answer: Whampoafor

Question. Pottinger occupied Ningpo on ........... .

Answer: October 13, 1841

Question. The ............. touched off explosive matters with far-reaching consequences for the Chinese and the Britain.

Answer: Opium War

Question. An old port, Canton was tradition –bound and 

Answer: corruption-ridden

Question. Politically, the cession of ............gave Britain a foothold in China for further advancement.

Answer: Hong Kong

Question. The ............. climaxed the foreigners’ feeling of insecurity and heightened dissatisfaction with the Canton system of trade.

Answer: Lady Hughesincident 

Question. On the basis of a Hippisley memorandum ............ a note embracing the idea of equal commercial opportunity in China.

Answer: Rockhillprepared

Question. The Open Door was a declaration of principles rather than a formal policy of the ..............., which had neither the will nor the power to enforce it military.

Answer: United States