Complete the following quiz to review your knowledge from this learning pathway. This quiz will help students undertaking this course for credit to prepare for their test.

• The ‘long nineteenth century’ typically refers to:
  • the period between the Treaty of Vienna and the outbreak of World War One
    • Incorrect. Review the overview of this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the period between the French Revolution and the outbreak of World War One
    • Correct. Well done!
  • the period between the French Revolution and 1900.
    • Incorrect. Review the overview of this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the period between 1800 and the outbreak of World War One.
    • Incorrect. Review the overview of this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Essential to the colonial ‘Scramble for Africa’ was:
  • industrialization
    • Incorrect. This is one essential component, but there is a better answer. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • quinine
    • Incorrect. This is one essential component, but there is a better answer. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • military superiority
    • Incorrect. This is one essential component, but there is a better answer. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above.
    • Correct. Well done!
• The ‘Great Game’ was:
  • The imperial rivalry between the British and Russian Empires during the nineteenth century.
    • Correct. Well done!
  • The imperial rivalry between the British and Austro-Hungarian Empires during the nineteenth century.
    • Incorrect. Review the lecture on Imperial Rivalry in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the ‘Scramble for Africa’ in the nineteenth century.
    • Incorrect. Review the lecture on Imperial Rivalry in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the attempt by missionaries to convert indigenous peoples to various denominations of Christianity in the nineteenth century.
    • Incorrect. Review the lecture on Imperial Rivalry in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• New imperialism:
  • was a period of colonial expansion by European powers, Japan and the United States.
    • Incorrect. This is part of the correct answer, but there is a better response. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • was the most rapid and expansive period of colonization, occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
    • Incorrect. This is part of the correct answer, but there is a better response. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • was sometimes justified by Social Darwinism.
    • Incorrect. This is part of the correct answer, but there is a better response. Review the lecture on New Imperialism in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct.
    • Correct. Well done!

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• Imperial powers in the ‘Scramble for Africa’ included Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and Russia.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Colonial Expansion in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• In the second half of the nineteenth century, Britain’s dominance as an industrial and colonial power was increasingly challenged by Germany, France, Belgium and the United States.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Colonial Expansion in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• By 1914, there was little of the world left for colonial powers to conquer.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Industrial Rivalries in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The ‘Great Game’ led to confrontations primarily in Africa.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Imperial Rivalry in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• ‘Gospel, glory and gold’ summarizes Spanish motivations in colonizing Latin America.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Colonial Expansion in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Of all the empires during this period, the British was the largest geographically.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on Colonial Expansion in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.