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1. 
Why did industrialized countries begin to practice imperialism?
A.
They wanted to help weaker nations become successful.
B.
They needed raw materials for factories and markets for their products.
C.
They needed to protect foreign diplomats.
D.
They wanted to buy manufactured goods from other countries.
2. 
What did people mean when they said, “The sun never sets on the British Empire”?
A.
England was the only industrialized nation that had electric lights to light up the night.
B.
The British Empire would never end.
C.
Britain’s empire covered so much of the globe that the sun was always shining on one of its colonies.
D.
Britain was full of many “bright” or smart people.
3. 
What led many European countries to explore and colonize Africa?
A.
Africans asked Europeans to colonize Africa.
B.
The discovery of large oil deposits in South Africa.
C.
Europeans wanted to control violence in Africa.
D.
The success of rubber tree plantations in the Congo.
4. 
What was the result of the Berlin Conference?
A.
Conflict was created in African countries because of the borders Europeans created.
B.
Africa’s borders united people according to culture and language.
C.
Europeans realized that colonizing Africa was a bad idea.
D.
African nations met with Europeans to decide where to draw the borders in Africa.
5. 
What was the Open Door Policy?
A.
It outlawed British goods in China.
B.
The US forced China to open trade.
C.
It slowed Chinese immigration to the United States.
D.
It made China a French colony.
6. 
The demand for natural resources in many industrialized countries led to a policy of:
A.
appeasement.
B.
protectionism.
C.
isolationism.
D.
imperialism.
7. 
The British Empire at its height controlled 24% of the Earth's total land area. This explains the phrase:
A.
Not all those who wander are lost.
B.
The sun never sets on the British Empire.
C.
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
D.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.
8. 
Belgium's colony in the Congo inspired the:
A.
European "scramble for Africa."
B.
abandonment of African exploration.
C.
development of a transnational railroad.
D.
protectionist policies of Britain and France.
9. 
Many of today's borders in Africa were determined by:
A.
a joint committee of African and European leaders.
B.
African nationals with the Treaty of Berlin.
C.
Europeans at the Berlin Conference.
D.
a UN delegation appointed to the task.
10. 
The US forced China to open trade equally to all countries in the:
A.
Berlin Conference.
B.
Meiji Restoration.
C.
Open Door Policy.
D.
Kyoto Protocol.