HIST 1003A Quiz 2 PDF

**HIST 1003A: Empire, War, and Revolution in Europe, 1850-1939** **Quiz \#2** **Student Name:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Student Number:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_...

**HIST 1003A: Empire, War, and Revolution in Europe, 1850-1939** **Quiz \#2** **Student Name:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Student Number:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Please indicate the *most correct* answer according to the lecture and reading content for the week.** 1. Up from only 11% in the late-nineteenth century, by 1902 European powers controlled how much of the African continent? a. 80% b. 85% c. **90%** d. 95% 2. The supposed obligation of western Europeans to bring "civilization" to the African continent was referred to in a poem by Rudyard Kipling as: e. The Colonial Project. f. **The White Man's Burden.** g. The Civilizing Mission. h. The Balance of Power. 3. Imperialism shifted the continental Balance of Power to Africa because: i. European powers could now draw on the resources of their colonies. j. Imperialism laid the groundwork for a naval arms race. k. Some colonies proved to be strategic barriers or threats to established infrastructure (like the Suez Canal) and important overseas colonies (like British India). l. **All of the above.** 4. The ground rules for European colonization of the African continent, including the creation of the Congo Free State headed by Belgian king Leopold II, were established in 1885 at the: m. Prague Conference. n. Helsinki Conference. o. **Berlin Conference.** p. London Conference. 5. King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State was notoriously brutal and in 1908 the Belgian government took over control of the Congo in an effort to curb the violence and inhumane conditions. However, this came only after dozens of authenticated reports including Joseph Conrad's novel: q. **Heart of Darkness.** r. The Jungle Book. s. Apocalypse Now. t. The White Man's Burden. 6. Having absolutely no doubt in the superiority of the British and believing that it was his right to exploit cheap African labour to his profit, the British protectorates of Zambia and Zimbabwe were operated like a private company by one of the most important figures in the British imperial project: u. Lothar von Trotha. v. Cecil B. DeMille. w. Lord Herbert Kitchener. x. **Cecil Rhodes.** 7. In the German war against the Herero people in Namibia, Lothar von Trotha outlawed marriage and miscegenation between the German colonists and the aboriginal peoples. Using language that would later echo that used by the Nazis, Trotha referred to this as a: y. War to end all wars. z. **Racial struggle.** a. Inequality of race. b. Biological difference that determined cultural and individual achievement. 8. Popular at home in the form of songs, postcards, cartoons, and magazine stories, the imperial project throughout western Europe often equated cleanliness and civility with whiteness, particularly in the advertising for: c. **Pears soap.** d. Le Petit Journal. e. The Crystral Palace in London. f. Carl Hagenbeck's Ethnological Exhibitions (human zoo). 9. Kaiser Wilhelm II viewed the German imperial navy as a genuinely national institution linked to the broader goal of maritime empire that would strengthen the "national" parties and isolate those parties opposed to it, unlike the army which was seen to be exclusively: g. Bavarian. h. **Prussian.** i. Pomeranian. j. Saxon. 10. Imperial Germany's quest for its "place in the sun," as foreign secretary Bernhard von Bülow termed it, its naval construction program, Wilhelm II's mishandling of foreign affairs, and German commercial competition in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, not only weakened the prospects for improved relations but also spurred a naval arms race between Germany and: k. France. l. Russia. m. Austria. n. **England.**