Diagnostic Test 9th grade

1. Which civilizations were known as the "river civilizations"?

a. Persia, India, China and Rome

b. Mesopotamia, India, China and Egypt

c. Mesopotamia, China, India and Greece d. China, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Assyria.
2. What justification feudal kings used to legitimate their power?
a. It was won in battle

b. it came from the rest of the nobles

c. it came from God

d. it came from himself

3. The Renaissance is an important period in the history of humanity in cultural, artistic and economic aspects
during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries in Europe.
In which country the Renaissance emerged?
a. Spain

b. France

c. England

d. Italy

4. Who is credited the idea of the division of government into three branches as a product of the
Enlightenment?
a. Rosseau

b. Montesquieu

c. Voltaire

d. Adam Smith

5. The Communist League commissioned German intellectuals writing a theoretical and practical program
which was published in 1848 as the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Who are the authors of this manifesto?
a. Augusto and Francois Bebenf

b. Robert Owen and Hegel

c. Carl Marx and Engels

d. Saint Simon and Charles Fournier

6. A continent it called the largest land mass of the Earth that rise from the ocean floor.
What percent of the total area of the earths crust occupy the continents?
a.35%

b.29%

c.25%

d.39%

7. Around which rivers Chinese civilization was developed?

a. . huang-I, yellow

b. huang-I, yangg tse kiang

c. I huang-yang tse Kiang, Amarillo

d. yang tse-Kiang yellow

8. Europe was formed until the nineteenth century by:

a. A mosaic of kingdoms and states

b. A mosaic of Christian peoples

c. A mosaic of Vikings and Bulgarians

d. A mosaic of Arab kingdoms

9. The Renaissance began in the peninsula and was centered cities of central and northern Italy, such as:
a.. Florence and Moravia

b. Barcelona and Milan

c. Venice and Castilla

d. Florence and Venice

10. What empire fell in 1453?

a. The Ottoman Empire

b. The Roman Empire

c. The Byzantine Empire

d. The Persian Empire

11. What writer was the face of the renaissance in Spain?

a. Cervantes

b. Machiavelli

c. Shakespeare

d. Homer

12. Between the V and XV centuries under the regime of feudalism became common the term vassal.
What is its meaning?
a. Slave

b. Employee

c. Villain

d. Servant

13. The Reformation and the religious wars, besides its religious causes provoked a crisis that would impact
beyond the church. Taking the above as true. Note from the following, which was an economic consequence.
a. It developed a new individualism and nationalism in cultural and political matters.
b. Religion was not so much a prime plot of the high clergy. Yet it refused to give way to tolerance and
religious persecutions were frequent.
c. various regions of Europe gained political, religious and cultural independence.
d. The power and lost by some nobles and the Catholic hierarchy wealth passed to the middle class and
monarchs.

14. As the state and politics were taking shape and expression from the XV to XVII the economy did
well. Mercantilism was the economic way that would prevail until the eighteenth century, with the state having
a strong command of industry and trade, ensuring that exports never exceeded the value of imports. But with
the passage of time breakthroughs and advances influenced by industrialization again encourage not only the
structures of the European kingdoms but colonial territories dominated since the fifteenth century.
Under this process of change an idea promoted by the illustration entrenches and would be present in human
thought. This thought or aspiration was:
a. slavery

b. the Inquisition

c. political structure

d. human rights

15. While in prison Hitler wrote against minority races who were not German and mentioned the idea of an
Aryan race. What is the name of his work?
a. My truth

b. My reason

c. My Kampf

d. my welfare

16. From the fifteenth century, the century of discovery begins the work of exploitation in the colonies,
trying to maintain uninterrupted economic and military power of the metropolis.
That way or through which you could see this economic transformation process.
a. feudalism

b. mercantilism

c. slavery

d. industrialization

17. Which of the following expressions of power served as a basis for encouraging the economic development
of States and the division of the occupied territories?
a. socialism

b. imperialism

c. communism

d. anarchism

18. "The territorial expansion is a way to extend the economy of developed nations, allowing output to capital
and surplus production of powers to the Third World".
What political philosophy that answers the above passage?
a. socialism

b. imperialism

c. communism

d. anarchism

19. What does the term Third World means?

a. . Highly developed

b. Developed

c. Developing

d. No development

20. What was the cost of World War I ?

a.100,000 million

b. 186,000 million

c. 200,000 million

d.205,000 million

21. What was the total loss of life in World War II?
a. 25 million combatants

b. 30 million combatants

c. 37 million combatants

d. 40 million combatants

22. How is called the new form of government that is given with the French Revolution?
a. Illustration

b. communism

c. Marxism

d. liberalism

23. During which years happens the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union?
a.. 1945-1991

b. 1940-1946

c. 1914-1918

d. 1935-1940

24. The German government under Chancellor Adolf Hitler started a war of hatred for the mere fact that aspired
to promote purebreds. Which people between others suffered the wrath of the Germans?
a. African

b. Russians

c. American

d. gypsies

25. From 1929 to 1933 the United States live the most disastrous economic period in recent centuries among
other things, falling stock markets.
How it is called this period?
a. Apartheid

b. The great Depression

c. The sad night

d. Cry of pain

26. Before the economic crisis facing the United States between the years 1929-1923 President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt establishes a policy with a number of relief measures for all sectors.

How do you know this policy?

a. New Deal

b. Black Friday

c. Pool Day

d. The Treaty of alcabala

27. What event on December 7, 1941 occurs as part of the Second World War that marks one of the saddest
moments in the history of the United States, the World and that definitely requires the entry of this nation to
war?
a. Korean War

b. Pearl Harbor

c. The German invasion of Russia

d. Normandy landing

28. At the end of World War II an organization that oversees avoid military conflicts worldwide, promote peace
and serve as a legal entity to prosecute war criminals is established.
Does this body is?
a.. UN

b. NATO

c. UNESCO

d. WHO

29. The twentieth century, in addition to economic and political conflicts that resulted in confrontations
worldwide and the expectation that kept participants and spectators, let clearly see the degree of neocolonialism
(underdevelopment) that exists in various parts of the planet. Genocides, human displacement and other ills
reflect this situation.
This type of problem is compounded by one of the evils that caused a considerable number of deaths.
a. malaria

b. Tuberculosis

c. Alzheimer

d. HIV AIDS

30. What activity initiated during the period covering the Old Age is celebrated today and brings people from
all over the world?
a. World Cup Football

b. Winter Olympics

c. Olympics

d. Wimbeldon Tournament.

31. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is:

a. The Canyon

b. The Colossus of Rhodes

c. Christ the Redeemer

d. Amazon Jungle

32. An advanced technological tool that was developed in the first decade of 1800 is:
a. The car

b. The piano

c. The phone

d. Computer

33. The world's largest radio telescope is in:

a. Manila - Philippine
c. Quebec- Canada

b. Sydney-Australia
d. Arecibo-Puerto Rico

34. A natural phenomenon that technology has failed to predict is:

a. Hurricane

b. The fall of a meteorite

c. Earthquake

d. Wind direction

35. When it comes to technological advances we mean:

a. Technical

b. equipment

c. work

d. services