APWH PACING PRACTICE - Unit 3 & 4 (1450-1750)
Completing this assignment will count as extra credit.
Practice your MCQ strategies and pacing. Remember, multiple-choice questions are typically grouped in sets of 3-5 questions that share the same stimulus (passage, image, chart, etc). You will have 55 minutes to answer 55 multiple-choice questions.
Your #1 priority for this section is to choose an answer for every single question, even if you have to make a random guess. Your #2 priority is answering the questions accurately. Remember to use the multiple-choice strategy to improve your pacing:
- Skip the stimulus and read all of the questions first so you know what they're asking.
- Read the answers and eliminate at least one. If you can eliminate 3 answers, then you can answer without reading the passage.
- Look at the stimulus, keeping the questions and answers in mind. Now that you know exactly what you need to look for, it will be a lot easier to skim the passage and speed up your reading time.
- Remember to consider your background knowledge—both about history and common sense.
For this practice, you will answer 25 questions. I have set the timer to 28 minutes to make sure you have time to read the instructions first.
Group 1
Questions 1a-1e refer to the passage below.
Source 1.1
Hispaniola, or St. Domingo, was the first settlement founded by Columbus: after he was gone, number of adventurers flocked thither, whose hearts were hardened by avarice and fanaticism. The safety of the Indians never entered the thoughts of these men... The Spaniards who landed on that coast pretended to be civilized, theh standard of Christ was borne before them, and they proclaimed themselves the propagators of his benevolent doctrines. How they practised his precepts may be judged of by the consequences of their arrival. It is computed that Hispaniola then contained a million of Indians; in reducing them to christianity and slavery, immense numbers were massacred by fire arms and blood hounds: when resistance cased, the wretched Indians having excessive tasks imposed upon them, and being forced to work in the mines, were consumed with labor and famine: and the remainder of this hapless race were totally extinguished by the Measles and Small Pox.
An excerpt from the 1815 book The History of the Small Pox by James Carrick Moore. Digital Public Library of America.
Question 1a
The source indicates that the labor imposed on the Indians by the Spaniards was:
Question 1b
What does the source suggest about the Spaniards' proclaimed mission in Hispaniola?
Question 1c
The source describes the Spaniards' treatment of the Indians in Hispaniola as being driven by:
Question 1d
According to the source, what was the initial attitude of the Spanish towards the indigenous people of Hispaniola?
Group 2
Questions 2a-2e refer to the passage below.
Source 2.1
The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless, by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women, who make it their business to perform the operation . . . the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her, with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch) and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle . . . There is no example of any one that has died in it, and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Letter to Friend, 1717
Question 2a
Based on Lady Montagu's description, what medical practice is being referred to in the source?
Question 2b
What can be inferred about Lady Montagu's attitude towards the medical practice she describes?
Question 2c
The practice of 'engrafting' as described by Lady Montagu is most similar to which of the following?
Question 2d
The source suggests that the practice of 'engrafting' was carried out by which group of people in the Ottoman Empire?
Question 2e
What does Lady Montagu's willingness to try the procedure on her son indicate about the cultural exchange between the Ottoman Empire and Britain at the time?
Group 3
Questions 3a-3e refer to the passage below.
Source 3.2
Upon which assurance of your royal love I have given my general command to all the kingdoms and ports of my dominions to receive all the merchants of the English nation as the subjects of my friend; that in what place soever they choose to live, they may have free liberty without any restraint; and at what port soever they shall arrive, that neither Portugal nor any other shall dare to molest their quiet; and in what city soever they shall have residence, I have commanded all my governors and captains to give them freedom answerable to their own desires; to sell, buy, and to transport into their country at their pleasure.
A letter from Indian Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir to English King James I.
Question 3a
The content of the letter from Jahangir to King James I best supports which of the following statements about the early modern period?
Question 3b
Which of the following European powers would have been most directly affected by Jahangir's policy as outlined in the letter?
Question 3c
The assurance of safety and freedom for English merchants in the Mughal Empire most directly reflects which of the following?
Question 3d
The letter from Emperor Jahangir to King James I is an example of which of the following types of historical sources?
Question 3e
What does Emperor Jahangir's letter suggest about the Mughal Empire's policy towards foreign trade in the early 17th century?
Group 4
Questions 4a-4e refer to the passage below.
Source 4.1
We send to the aljamas of the said Jews and Moors: that each of them be put in said separation [by] such procedure and such order that within the said term of the said two years they [shall] have the said houses of their separation, and live and die in them, and henceforth not have their dwellings among the Christians or elsewhere outside the designated areas and places that have been assigned to the said Jewish and Moorish quarters.
Decree of the Spanish Cortes de Toledo, 1480
Question 4a
The implementation of the decree would have had which of the following effects on Jewish and Moorish communities in Spain?
Question 4b
The decree's requirement for Jews and Moors to 'live and die' in separate quarters most directly reflects which of the following?
Question 4c
Which of the following best describes the context in which the Decree of the Spanish Cortes de Toledo was issued?
Question 4d
The decree to segregate Jews and Moors into separate quarters is an example of which broader historical trend in late medieval Spain?
Question 4e
What policy is being described in the Decree of the Spanish Cortes de Toledo, 1480?
Group 5
Questions 5a-5e refer to the passage below.
Source 5.1
- Japanese ships are strictly forbidden to leave for foreign countries.
- No Japanese is permitted to go abroad. If there is anyone who attempts to do so secretly, he must be executed. The ship involved must be impounded and its owner arrested, and the matter must be reported to the higher authority.
- If any Japanese returns from overseas after residing there, he must be put to death.
- If there are any Southern Barbarians (Westerners) who propagate the teaching of padres (Christianity), or otherwise commit crimes, they may be incarcerated in the prison maintained by the Ōmura domain, as was done previously.
The Edicts of the Tokugawa Shogunate, 1635
Question 5a
The incarceration of Westerners who propagate Christianity in Japan as mentioned in the edicts is an example of:
Question 5b
The punishment for Japanese attempting to leave the country or those who have returned after residing abroad reflects the Shogunate's concern about:
Question 5c
The reference to 'Southern Barbarians' in the edicts is indicative of the Tokugawa Shogunate's view towards:
Question 5d
The policy of executing Japanese who traveled abroad and then returned as stated in the edicts is an example of:
Question 5e
Which of the following best describes the primary intent of the Tokugawa Shogunate's edicts as presented in the source?
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