Transcript AP World History Period 2 Test Review

AP World History Period 2 Test
Review
C. 600 BCE – 600 CE
Multiple Choice
Your test consists of 70 multiple choice questions. There are standard multiple choice
questions, image questions, quotes, and the dreaded numeral questions (I, II, III, IV).
Question 1
The Ten Commandments’ injunction to “honor thy mother and
father” gives Judaism the greatest degree of commonality with
which of the following belief systems?
A. Confucianism
B. Shamanism
C. Hinduism
D. Zoroastrianism
Correct Answer: A
Question 2
Ashoka and Constantine are MOST alike in that
A. They are remembered as great lawgivers.
B. They each provided critical support for a major religion.
C. They each radically reformed their empire’s administration.
D. They each expanded their empires boundaries considerably.
Correct Answer: B
Question 3
What change to early Christian doctrine did the MOST to make it more
appealing to people throughout the Roman Empire?
A. Eliminating the need to observe Jewish dietary restrictions and
circumcision.
B. Allowing women to serve alongside men as clergy.
C. Including the Holy Spirit as part of the Trinity.
D. Calling attention to its conceptual similarities to Zoroastrianism.
Correct Answer: A
Question 4
Which of the following is MOST true of Roman law?
A. It derived mainly from religious principles.
B. It operated on the retributive principle “an eye for an eye.”
C. It guaranteed equal treatment of all classes before the law.
D. It assumed innocence until guilt was proven.
Correct Answer: B
Question 5
Which of the following would be the most effective administrative
means by which advanced states c. 300 BCE might regulate trade?
A. Taking a thorough census of the population
B. Devising a civil code
C. Standardizing weights and measures
D. Forming a network of police informants
Correct Answer: C
Question 6
The main pattern in Chinese art established by the close of
the Classical Era was
A. A focus on monument building
B. High levels of craftsmanship and attention to detail work
C. Reverence of the female physical form
D. Preference of marble over jade in small sculptures
Correct Answer: B
Question 7
Which is the best estimate for the number of castes that have
developed in India over the millennia?
A. A handful
B. Dozens
C. Hundreds
D. Thousands
Correct Answer: D
Question 8
Which of the following does NOT belong in a list of lands to
which Buddhism spread substantially following the death of
Siddhartha Gautama?
A. Southeast Asia
B. Mesopotamia
C. Hinduism
D. Zoroastrianism
Correct Answer: B
Question 9
Which lasting pattern in the history of the subcontinent can we
trace to the period of the rule of the Mauryan and Gupta empires
in India?
A. Strong state sponsorship of Hindu beliefs
B. Difficulty in maintaining centralized imperial rule
C. Long and generally unbroken eras of centralized imperial rule
D. Coexistence with Islamic rule and culture
Correct Answer: B
Question 10
Which of the following was NOT an important basis for the higher socioeconomic
status of the Chinese gentry?
A.
Control or ownership of extensive farmland
B.
Durable positions as local tax collectors and intermediaries for the imperial
center
C.
Commonplace advancement of women of the gentry class in the imperial
bureaucracy
D.
Ability to call in military resources of the imperial state to put down local
peasant rebellions
Correct Answer: C
Question 11
Which of the following qualifies as an example of Confucius’s
“Five Basic Relationships”?
A. Ruler-subject
B. Father-son
C. Husband-Wife
D. All the above
Correct Answer: D
Question 12
Pre-Islamic Arab society is best characterized as
A. Pastoral nomadic
B. Sedentary agricultural
C. Maritime trade-based
D. Hunter-gatherer
Correct Answer: A
Question 13
Which two Muslim cities retain the greatest symbolic or religious
significance to Islam today?
A. Baghdad and Istanbul
B. Istanbul and Mecca
C. Mecca and Medina
D. Baghdad and Mecca
Correct Answer: C
Question 14
Upon whom did Muhammad depend most directly for economic
support?
A. Local chieftains
B. The urban poor
C. Roman imperial administrators
D. His wife, Khadija
Correct Answer: D
Question 15
Which choice BEST describes the eastern and western geographic
limits of Islamic rule at its greatest extent during the period of the
Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates?
A. Northwest India to Spain and Morocco
B. East Asia to Spain and Morocco
C. Persia to Spain and Morocco
D. Eastern Mediterranean to Spain and Morocco
Correct Answer: A