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Chinese History 101 Quiz #7

Test your knowledge of Chinese history between 1796 - 1912 AD. All answers can be found in my Chinese History 101 blog.
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1. What was used as the standard currency of trade between China and Europe in the 18th century?
copper ✓
silver ✓
Chinese yuan ✓
gold ✓
2. What triggered the First Opium War?
The Qing owed the British money on opium imports ✓
The Qing killed the British merchants selling opium ✓
The Qing banned opium trade and confiscated opium stocks ✓
The Qing imposed monopoly on opium trade to Chinese merchants ✓
3. What did Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, claim himself to be?
Prophet of Allah ✓
Descendent of the Ming emperor ✓
Younger brother of Jesus Christ ✓
Reincarnation of Buddha ✓
4. Which of these was burnt down by the Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War?
Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) ✓
Temple of Heaven ✓
Forbidden City ✓
Summer Palace (Yi He Yuan) ✓
5. How did the Russians gain control of Vladivostok (Haishenwai) in 1860?
Rewarded by the Qing for helping to fight against the Anglo-French forces in the Second Opium War ✓
The city surrendered after a siege by the Russian forces ✓
Ceded by the Qing in the Convention of Peking ✓
Ceded by the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War ✓
6. How was the Qing's Beiyang Fleet annihilated in the First Sino-Japanese War?
With help from the Russian Pacific Fleet ✓
Outnumbered by the larger Japanese navy fleet ✓
Outmanoeuvred by the smaller, faster and more modern Japanese boats ✓
With help from the British Royal Navy ✓
7. Why did the Japanese return the Liaodong Peninsula to China after the First Sino-Japanese War?
The Japanese suffered from strong local resistance against its rule ✓
The Japanese swapped Liaodong Peninsula for Taiwan ✓
The Qing fought back and drove the Japanese out ✓
Under pressure from diplomatic intervention by Russia, France and Germany ✓
8. Why did the scramble of China, similar to that in Africa, not happen in 1899?
The population of China was too large for the Europeans to colonise China ✓
The United States proposed the Open Door Policy towards China ✓
The Japanese wanted to take over all of China and threatening the European powers ✓
The Qing implemented successful reforms to become on par politically and militarily with the European powers ✓
9. Which country was NOT involved in the Eight-Nation Alliance against the Boxer Rebellions?
Japan ✓
Netherlands ✓
Austria-Hungary ✓
United States ✓
10. Where did the Chinese Revolution break out on October 10th, 1911?
Nanking (now Nanjing) ✓
Wuchang (part of now Wuhan) ✓
Canton (now Guangzhou) ✓
Shanghai ✓
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