Multiple
Choice
Identify the choice
that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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A major reason for the
communists' victory in China was:
A. | their role in the struggle against
Japan. | B. | Soviet assistance for the Kuomintang. | C. | American refusal to help Chiang Kai-shek.
| D. | their use of Taiwan as a base of
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During the Chinese Cultural
Revolution of the 1960s,
A. | economic production dropped
dramatically. | B. | Deng Xiaoping gained control of the country. | C. | closer relations were established with the
U.S.S.R. | D. | foreign companies were allowed to invest in
China. |
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What policy change occurred in
relations between China and the U.S.A. after President Nixon's visit to Peking in
1972?
A. | The two countries signed a treaty of
friendship. | B. | Both countries agreed to a nuclear test ban
treaty. | C. | The U.S.A. supported the Chinese position on
Tibet. | D. | The U.S.A. denounced the Chinese invasion of
Vietnam. |
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During the 1980s the acceptance
of limited capitalism within China led to
A. | the collapse of communist rule in
China. | B. | the Cultural Revolution. | C. | improved trade relations with the U.S.A. and the
West. | D. | democratic reforms. |
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In the 1960s, China accused the
U.S.S.R. of:
A. | escalating the Cold
War. | B. | abandoning Marxist ideology. | C. | continuing Stalinist
repression. | D. | supporting the Kuomintang government in
Taiwan. |
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In China, special economic
zones are areas where
A. | western consumer goods are
excluded. | B. | foreign investors receive preferential trading
rights. | C. | strict government control is imposed on foreign
industry. | D. | workers are allowed to organize independent trade
unions. |
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The leader responsible for the
economic reforms in China during the 1980's was
A. | Chou
Enlai. | B. | Mao Zedong. | C. | Deng Xiaoping. | D. | Chiang Kai-shek. |
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The "Great Leap
Forward" refers to
A. | the Communist win over the
Nationalists in 1949. | B. | the encouragement of criticism from China's leading
intellectuals. | C. | an attempt to increase industrial output by decentralizing
production. | D. | Mao's actions to purge his political opponents by using the Red Guard as
"moral crusaders". |
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Deng Xiaoping was in favour
of
A. | multi-party
democracy. | B. | allowing mass protests. | C. | ending the one-child
policy. | D. | more private ownership of
businesses. |
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