US College AP World History Advanced Test 8

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College Entrance — Test 8 (Ap World History Advanced) High School (Grades 11-12, College Entrance, USA) USA College Board (SAT/ACT/AP) — USA

What is this test? for College Entrance prep (SAT/ACT/PSAT/AP), USA — high school to college transition — High School (Grades 11-12, College Entrance, USA) level, USA.
Is this for you? For High School students (grades 11-12) preparing for SAT, ACT, PSAT or AP in the USA
Section: College Entrance — Test 8 (Ap World History Advanced) · Education: High School (College Prep) · Part: College Entrance — Test 8 (Ap World History Advanced) · Country: USA

Knowledge of history is essential for understanding the vast accumulation from past to present and for establishing cause-and-effect relationships among historical events.

This test will help you develop chronological thinking and prepare for history questions on your exams.

By solving this test of 20 questions, you can both test your knowledge and identify the topics you need to improve.

Question 1

Who was assassinated starting WWI?

A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand

B) Czar Nicholas

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Kaiser Wilhelm

Question 2

What was the encomienda system?

A) Trade with natives

B) Spanish forced labor of natives

C) Freedom for natives

D) Protection of natives

Question 3

Who was the first Black president?

A) Bill Clinton

B) Joe Biden

C) Barack Obama

D) George Bush

Question 4

Who sent first telegraph message?

A) Tesla

B) Edison

C) Bell

D) Samuel Morse

Question 5

Which code is the oldest law code (1754 BCE)?

A) Code of Hammurabi

B) Justinian Code

C) Twelve Tables

D) Ten Commandments

Question 6

Who built the steel empire?

A) J.P. Morgan

B) Andrew Carnegie

C) Henry Ford

D) John D. Rockefeller

Question 7

Which treaty ended WWI?

A) Treaty of Berlin

B) Treaty of Paris

C) Treaty of Versailles

D) Treaty of Ghent

Question 8

What was the Sedition Act (1918)?

A) Ended war

B) Created draft

C) Gave vote

D) Limited anti-war speech

Question 9

Who was the "Father of Humanism"?

A) Petrarch

B) Castiglione

C) Erasmus

D) Machiavelli

Question 10

Who was the Soviet leader who started reforms in the 1980s?

A) Stalin

B) Mikhail Gorbachev

C) Khrushchev

D) Brezhnev

Question 11

What was the Bay of Pigs (1961)?

A) Peace talks

B) Trade deal

C) Failed CIA invasion of Cuba

D) Successful invasion

Question 12

Which doctrine was "massive retaliation"?

A) Kennedy

B) Nixon

C) Truman

D) Eisenhower

Question 13

What was laissez-faire?

A) Government hands off business

B) No business

C) Government controls business

D) Workers control business

Question 14

Who was Ignatius of Loyola?

A) Founded Calvinists

B) Founded Jesuits

C) Founded Anglicans

D) Founded Lutherans

Question 15

Who first circled the globe?

A) Drake

B) Columbus

C) Magellan's expedition

D) Cook

Question 16

Who was US president during most of WWII?

A) Dwight Eisenhower

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Harry Truman

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 17

Which family funded Renaissance art in Florence?

A) Medici

B) Sforza

C) Visconti

D) Borgia

Question 18

Which invasion began June 6, 1944?

A) D-Day (Normandy)

B) Market Garden

C) Torch

D) Battle of the Bulge

Question 19

Who was the first Black president (2009-2017)?

A) Jesse Jackson

B) Colin Powell

C) Barack Obama

D) Thurgood Marshall

Question 20

Who was Montezuma II?

A) Maya king

B) Inca emperor

C) Spanish king

D) Aztec emperor

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