Before Class Begins: History Background Assessment: Answer all multiple choice questions by the Friday before the beginning of the semester:
(1) Modern Economic Growth: The explosion of wealth that has made the modern world so rich began with...
- the late Industrial Revolution, around 1850
- the Commercial Revolution of 1500
- the early Industrial Revolution of 1730...
- the coming of electricity to factories in the 1920s
- after World War II
- none of the other answers
(2) International Inequality: The process that has sharply divided nations into rich nations and poor nations began with...
- the inventions and diffusion of the technologies of the middle Industrial Revolution, about 1820
- the Commercial Revolution of 1500
- the fall of the Roman Empire, around 500
- the coming of World War I in 1914
- the coming of globalization around 1900
- none of the other answers
(3) China Stands Up: China's recovery from its long relative economic and political decline that began early in the Qing Dynasty began to gather strength with...
- the overthrow of the Qing by Yuan Shikai in 1911 Correct Answer
- the return to power of Deng Xiaoping in 1977
- the northern expedition of Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kaishek) in 1928
- the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War in 1948
- the self-strengthening movement led by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang beginning in the 1860s
- none of the other answers
(4) Neoliberalism: The neoliberal movement to place more emphasis on using market- and market-friendly institutions and to moderate the pursuit of socialist and social democratic ends gathered force in...
- the 1980s, with the elections of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. and Margaret Thatcher in * the 1990s, with the election of Bill Clinton in the United States and Tony Blair in Britain, and the passage of NAFTA
- the 1960s, with the election of Lyndon Johnson in the United States
- the 1950s, with the election of Dwight Eisenhower in the United States
- the 2000s, with the election of George W. Bush in the United States and China's joining the WTO
- none of the other answers
(5) Long-Run Growth: Before 1500, nearly all economies in the world were...
- much poorer than most and indeed all but the poorest economies today
- leisure societies close to nature with limited hours of work necessary
- about as rich as societies today, but with more unequal income distributions
- about as rich as societies today, and with less unequal income distributions
- richer than today because deforestation and resource depletion had not yet taken hold
- none of the other answers
Housekeeping:
