Q.1. Indo-China comprises
(a) India and China (b) North and South Vietnam and China
(c) India, China and Vietnam (d) The modern countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Q.2. When did the French arrive in Vietnam?
(a) 1857 (b) 1856 (c) 1858 (d) 1859
Q.3. When and how French Indo-China was formed?
(a) French Indo-China was formed in 1880, after the French defeated China
(b) Conquest of Tonkin and Anaam in 1887, led to the formation of French Indochina
(c) Conquest of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam led to the formation of French Indochina
(d) All the above
Q.4. The French increased cultivation of rice in and its export from Vietnam by
(a) Building a vast system of irrigation works, canals and earth works
(b) Increasing the area under rice cultivation
(c) Using forced labour for construction (d) All the above
Q.5. Construction of trans-Indo-China network linked Vietnam to
(a) China and Siam
(b) Northern and Southern parts of Vietnam finally linked to Yunan in China by 1910
(c) To Siam (Thailand now) via the Cambodian capital of Pnom Penh
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.6. The barriers to economic progress in Vietnam, according to Paul Bernard, the French writer, were :
(a) Lack of industrialisation
(b) High population, low agricultural productivity and extensive indebtedness among peasants
(c) Lack of reforms in the agricultural field
(d) Landlordism in the rural areas
Q.7. When did the war between Vietnam and the US officially end?
(a) In 1972 after the signing of a peace treaty
(b) In January 1974, in Paris, a peace settlement was signed
(c) In Saigon on 30 April, 1975 (d) In 1970 at Saigon
Q.8. The French tried to stem the invasion of rats in Hanoi by :
(a) Offering a price for every rat caught by the Vietnamese
(b) By plugging the sewers
(c) By starting a rat hunt in 1902, hiring Vietnamese workers and paying them for each rat caught
(d) By poisoning the rats
Q.9. Vietnam's religious beliefs were a mixture of :
(a) Local practices, worship of the supernatural (b) Buddhism and Confucianism
(c) Buddhism, Confucianism, and local practices with reverence shown to the supernatural
(d) All the above
Q.10. Who founded the Hoa Hao movement, when and where?
(a) It was founded by Hoa Hao in 1940 in Saigon
(b) Founded by Huynh Phu So in 1939 in Hanoi
(c) Founded by Huynh Phu So, in 1939, in the fertile Mekong delta area
(d) Founded by Mad Monze, 1939, in Hanoi
Q.11. What did the Vietnamese learn from the 'Rat Hunt'?
(a) How to make profit from a difficult situation in many ways
(b) How collective bargaining can be a success against a colonial power
(c) How even the weak could defeat a colonial power by their resistance
(d) All the above
Q.12. French idea of "civilising mission" in Vietnam meant :
(a) Civilising the natives through economic progress
(b) Civilising the natives by destroying local cultures, religions and traditions
(c) Civilising the natives through education and introducing modern ideas even if it destroyed their culture, religions and traditions (d) All the above
Q.13. The school textbooks introduced by the French :
(a) Represented the Vietnamese as primitive, backward people, capable of manual labour only
(b) Painted them as people unable to rule themselves, only skilled copyists, not creative
(c) Glorified the French and justified the colonial rule (d) All the above
Q.14. The rebellion and the expulsion of the girl from Saigon Native Girls School led to :
(a) Principal's expulsion from school
(b) More open protest from angry students
(c) Government had to force the school to take back the expelled students
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.15. Under whose influence did Phan Boi Chau write "The History of the Loss of Vietnam"?
(a) Phan Chu Trinh - a Vietnamese nationalist
(b) Sun Yat Sen - a Chinese revolutionary
(c) Ho Chi Minh - a Vietnamese Communist
(d) Liang Qichao, a Chinese reformer
Q.16. Name the nationalist who differed from the views of Phan Boi Chau. Why ?
(a) Sun Yat Sen - he wanted a republic in Vietnam
(b) Ho Chi Minh - He wanted a Communist Government
(c) Phan Chu Trinh - He was hostile to monarchy, wanted a democratic republic in Vietnam
(d) Liang Qichao - He wanted to abolish monarchy
Q.17. Who started the 'Go East Movement' and when?
(a) 300 Vietnamese students in 1907-08 in Japan (b) The Nguyen dynasty in 1907
(c) Phan Chu Trinh in 1908 (d) All the above
Q.18. The primary objective of the 'Go East Movement' was :
(a) To acquire modern education in Japan
(b) To drive out the French from Vietnam, overthrow the puppet emperor and re-establish the dynasty
(c) To establish a republic in Vietnam
(d) All the above
Q.19. The Vietnamese nationalists looked to Japan for help because :
(a) Japan had modernised itself and resisted colonisation by the West
(b) They had defeated mighty Russia in 1907
(c) They wanted arms from them (d) All the above
Q.20. Which event in China in 1911 inspired the nationalists in Vietnam?
(a) China overthrew the established monarchy
(b) Sun Yat Sen set up a Republic in China
(c) Chinese monarchy defeated the western countries
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Q.21. After the fall of Chinese monarchy in 1911, the nature of anti-French Independence Movement in Vietnam changed to :
(a) Total Independence in Vietnam with no French presence
(b) Setting up a Republic like China in Vietnam
(c) Establishing a democratic republic and not a constitutional monarchy in Vietnam
(d) Establishing a constitutional monarchy in Vietnam
Q.22. The Great Depression of 1929-33 had a great impact on Vietnam because :
(a) The prices of rubber and rice fell
(b) It led to rising rural debts, unemployment and rural uprising in provinces of Ng He An and Ha Tinh
(c) The French crushed three uprisings ruthlessly
(d) All the above
Q.23. The leader who bought together all the competing Vietnamese nationalist groups in 1930 was :-
(a) The Nguyen king (b) Bao Dai (c) Ngo Dinh Diem (d) Ho Chi Minh
Q.24. Who overthrew the Bao Dai government in the South Vietnam?
(a) The National Liberation Front (b) The French themselves
(c) Ho Chi Minh's forces
(d) A coup led by Ngo Dinh Diem of the united opposition parties called the National Liberation Front
Q.25. The League for the Independence of Vietnam was formed :
(a) To overthrow the French (b) To overthrow the Japanese who had occupied Vietnam in 1940
(c) To overthrow both the French and the Japanese (d) All the above
Q.26. How and under whom was the Democratic Republic of Vietnam formed?
(a) The Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh defeated the French
(b) The Japanese were defeated by forces under Ho Chi Minh
(c) The Japanese were defeated at Hanoi in September 1945 and Ho Chi Minh became the Chairman of the Republic
(d) The Vietminh fought the Japanese occupation, recaptured Hanoi in 1945, and a Democratic Republic was formed under Ho Chi Minh
Q.27. The two difficulties faced by the new Republic of Vietnam were :
(a) The French set up a puppet, Bao Dai, as emperor to regain their control of Vietnam
(b) The Vietminh were forced to retreat to the hills
(c) The republic had to fight the French for 8 years (d) Both (b) and (c)
Ans. (d)
Q.28. When and where were the French defeated?
(a) In May 1952, the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu
(b) In January 1954, the French were defeated at Hanoi
(c) On 7 May 1954, the Vietminh annihilated the French at Bien Dien Phu
(d) In 1953 at North Eastern valley
Ans. (c)
Q.29. The peace negotiations at Geneva after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu led to :
(a) Partition of Vietnam into North and South Vietnam
(b) Ho Chi Minh and the Communists took power in the North
(c) The Bao Dai's puppet regime was set up in the South (d) All the above
Q.30. The US joined the war in Vietnam because they were afraid of :
(a) The alliance of the Ho Chi Minh government of the North with the NLF of the South for the unification of Vietnam
(b) Growing communist power in the Vietnam
(c) The defeat of France and overthrow of Bao Dai
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.31. Dien Bien Phu became a very important symbol of struggle for the Vietnamese, because :
(a) It strengthened the Vietminh's conviction in their capacity to fight the powerful imperial forces
(b) They learnt the importance of determination and proper strategy
(c) The stories of the battle were retold and inspired the people in villages and cities
(d) All the above
Q.32. A napalm is :
(a) A chemical bomb which destroys millions
(b) An organic compound, used to thicken gasoline, burns slowly and sticks to human body and continues to burn
(c) A phosphorous bomb
(d) An atomic bomb but with greater power to kill
Q.33. The reaction within the USA was critical of the Vietnam war, because
(a) They had the elite escaping compulsory service and minorities and children of working class forced to do so
(b) They thought the US involvement was indefensible and were against compulsory service in the armed forces.
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) They were against the use of chemical weapons against the Vietnamese
Q.34. What do the letters of Colonel Do Sam of the North Vietnamese artillery tell you?
(a) How nationalism mingles personal love with love for the country and the desire for freedom
(b) How to fight a mighty nation and defeat it
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) How sacrifice is necessary for happiness
Q.35. As peace talks began in the 1970s, the women were now represented as
(a) Warriors and workers
(b) Only as workers
(c) As workers in agricultural cooperatives, factories and production units and not as warriors
(d) All the above
Q.36. How were women shown in magazines and journals in the 1960s?
(a) As housewives who looked after the home while the men fought
(b) As brave dedicated, fighters, shooting down planes
(c) As selfless workers with rifle in one hand and a hammer in the other
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.37. The Trung sisters were idealised and glorified because :
(a) They represented the indomitable will and intense patriotism of the Vietnamese
(b) They preferred to commit suicide, instead of surrendering to the Chinese when defeated
(c) Phan Boi Chau wrote about them in his play
(d) They gathered over 30,000 soldiers and fought the Chinese for two years
Q.38. How did the image of a New Woman emerge?
(a) The growth of the nationalist movement led to the change in the status of women
(b) Writers and political thinkers began idealising women who rebelled against social norms
(c) Nhat Linh's famous novel (1930) showed a woman leaving her forced marriage, marrying a nationalist, someone of her choice
(d) All the above
Q.39. The scholar, Noam Chomsky, called the Vietnam war : -
(a) 'A disastrous war for the US'
(b) The greatest threat to peace, to national self-determination, and to international cooperation
(c) 'A war worse than the Second World War'
(d) 'A failure of US to curb communism in Vietnam'
Q.40. Vietnamese women helped the resistance movement in Vietnam by
(a) Nursing the wounded, constructing underground rooms and tunnels and fighting the enemy
(b) They built six airstrips, neutralised tens of thousands of bombs, transported thousands of kilograms of cargo, weapons, food, and shot down 15 planes
(c) Kept open 2,195 km of strategic roads and guarded 2,500 key points
(d) All the above
Q.41. The USA underestimated the Vietnamese because they failed to understand
(a) The power of nationalism to move people to action, to sacrifice their home and family,
to live under horrific conditions
(b) The power of a small country to fight the most technologically advanced
country in the world
(c) The desire to fight for independence
(d) All the above
1.(d), 2.(c), 3.(b), 4.(d), 5.(d), 6.(b), 7.(c), 8.(c), 9.(c), 10.(c), 11.(d), 12.(c), 13.(d), 14.(d), 15.(d), 16.(b), 17.(a), 18.(b), 19.(d), 20.(d), 21.(c), 22. (d), 23.(d), 24.(d), 25.(b), 26.(d), 27.(d), 28.(c), 29.(d)
30.(d), 31.(d), 32.(b), 33.(c), 34.(c), 35.(c), 36.(d), 37.(a), 38.(d), 39.(b), 40.(d), 41.(b)
(a) India and China (b) North and South Vietnam and China
(c) India, China and Vietnam (d) The modern countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Q.2. When did the French arrive in Vietnam?
(a) 1857 (b) 1856 (c) 1858 (d) 1859
Q.3. When and how French Indo-China was formed?
(a) French Indo-China was formed in 1880, after the French defeated China
(b) Conquest of Tonkin and Anaam in 1887, led to the formation of French Indochina
(c) Conquest of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam led to the formation of French Indochina
(d) All the above
Q.4. The French increased cultivation of rice in and its export from Vietnam by
(a) Building a vast system of irrigation works, canals and earth works
(b) Increasing the area under rice cultivation
(c) Using forced labour for construction (d) All the above
Q.5. Construction of trans-Indo-China network linked Vietnam to
(a) China and Siam
(b) Northern and Southern parts of Vietnam finally linked to Yunan in China by 1910
(c) To Siam (Thailand now) via the Cambodian capital of Pnom Penh
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.6. The barriers to economic progress in Vietnam, according to Paul Bernard, the French writer, were :
(a) Lack of industrialisation
(b) High population, low agricultural productivity and extensive indebtedness among peasants
(c) Lack of reforms in the agricultural field
(d) Landlordism in the rural areas
Q.7. When did the war between Vietnam and the US officially end?
(a) In 1972 after the signing of a peace treaty
(b) In January 1974, in Paris, a peace settlement was signed
(c) In Saigon on 30 April, 1975 (d) In 1970 at Saigon
Q.8. The French tried to stem the invasion of rats in Hanoi by :
(a) Offering a price for every rat caught by the Vietnamese
(b) By plugging the sewers
(c) By starting a rat hunt in 1902, hiring Vietnamese workers and paying them for each rat caught
(d) By poisoning the rats
Q.9. Vietnam's religious beliefs were a mixture of :
(a) Local practices, worship of the supernatural (b) Buddhism and Confucianism
(c) Buddhism, Confucianism, and local practices with reverence shown to the supernatural
(d) All the above
Q.10. Who founded the Hoa Hao movement, when and where?
(a) It was founded by Hoa Hao in 1940 in Saigon
(b) Founded by Huynh Phu So in 1939 in Hanoi
(c) Founded by Huynh Phu So, in 1939, in the fertile Mekong delta area
(d) Founded by Mad Monze, 1939, in Hanoi
Q.11. What did the Vietnamese learn from the 'Rat Hunt'?
(a) How to make profit from a difficult situation in many ways
(b) How collective bargaining can be a success against a colonial power
(c) How even the weak could defeat a colonial power by their resistance
(d) All the above
Q.12. French idea of "civilising mission" in Vietnam meant :
(a) Civilising the natives through economic progress
(b) Civilising the natives by destroying local cultures, religions and traditions
(c) Civilising the natives through education and introducing modern ideas even if it destroyed their culture, religions and traditions (d) All the above
Q.13. The school textbooks introduced by the French :
(a) Represented the Vietnamese as primitive, backward people, capable of manual labour only
(b) Painted them as people unable to rule themselves, only skilled copyists, not creative
(c) Glorified the French and justified the colonial rule (d) All the above
Q.14. The rebellion and the expulsion of the girl from Saigon Native Girls School led to :
(a) Principal's expulsion from school
(b) More open protest from angry students
(c) Government had to force the school to take back the expelled students
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.15. Under whose influence did Phan Boi Chau write "The History of the Loss of Vietnam"?
(a) Phan Chu Trinh - a Vietnamese nationalist
(b) Sun Yat Sen - a Chinese revolutionary
(c) Ho Chi Minh - a Vietnamese Communist
(d) Liang Qichao, a Chinese reformer
Q.16. Name the nationalist who differed from the views of Phan Boi Chau. Why ?
(a) Sun Yat Sen - he wanted a republic in Vietnam
(b) Ho Chi Minh - He wanted a Communist Government
(c) Phan Chu Trinh - He was hostile to monarchy, wanted a democratic republic in Vietnam
(d) Liang Qichao - He wanted to abolish monarchy
Q.17. Who started the 'Go East Movement' and when?
(a) 300 Vietnamese students in 1907-08 in Japan (b) The Nguyen dynasty in 1907
(c) Phan Chu Trinh in 1908 (d) All the above
Q.18. The primary objective of the 'Go East Movement' was :
(a) To acquire modern education in Japan
(b) To drive out the French from Vietnam, overthrow the puppet emperor and re-establish the dynasty
(c) To establish a republic in Vietnam
(d) All the above
Q.19. The Vietnamese nationalists looked to Japan for help because :
(a) Japan had modernised itself and resisted colonisation by the West
(b) They had defeated mighty Russia in 1907
(c) They wanted arms from them (d) All the above
Q.20. Which event in China in 1911 inspired the nationalists in Vietnam?
(a) China overthrew the established monarchy
(b) Sun Yat Sen set up a Republic in China
(c) Chinese monarchy defeated the western countries
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Q.21. After the fall of Chinese monarchy in 1911, the nature of anti-French Independence Movement in Vietnam changed to :
(a) Total Independence in Vietnam with no French presence
(b) Setting up a Republic like China in Vietnam
(c) Establishing a democratic republic and not a constitutional monarchy in Vietnam
(d) Establishing a constitutional monarchy in Vietnam
Q.22. The Great Depression of 1929-33 had a great impact on Vietnam because :
(a) The prices of rubber and rice fell
(b) It led to rising rural debts, unemployment and rural uprising in provinces of Ng He An and Ha Tinh
(c) The French crushed three uprisings ruthlessly
(d) All the above
Q.23. The leader who bought together all the competing Vietnamese nationalist groups in 1930 was :-
(a) The Nguyen king (b) Bao Dai (c) Ngo Dinh Diem (d) Ho Chi Minh
Q.24. Who overthrew the Bao Dai government in the South Vietnam?
(a) The National Liberation Front (b) The French themselves
(c) Ho Chi Minh's forces
(d) A coup led by Ngo Dinh Diem of the united opposition parties called the National Liberation Front
Q.25. The League for the Independence of Vietnam was formed :
(a) To overthrow the French (b) To overthrow the Japanese who had occupied Vietnam in 1940
(c) To overthrow both the French and the Japanese (d) All the above
Q.26. How and under whom was the Democratic Republic of Vietnam formed?
(a) The Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh defeated the French
(b) The Japanese were defeated by forces under Ho Chi Minh
(c) The Japanese were defeated at Hanoi in September 1945 and Ho Chi Minh became the Chairman of the Republic
(d) The Vietminh fought the Japanese occupation, recaptured Hanoi in 1945, and a Democratic Republic was formed under Ho Chi Minh
Q.27. The two difficulties faced by the new Republic of Vietnam were :
(a) The French set up a puppet, Bao Dai, as emperor to regain their control of Vietnam
(b) The Vietminh were forced to retreat to the hills
(c) The republic had to fight the French for 8 years (d) Both (b) and (c)
Ans. (d)
Q.28. When and where were the French defeated?
(a) In May 1952, the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu
(b) In January 1954, the French were defeated at Hanoi
(c) On 7 May 1954, the Vietminh annihilated the French at Bien Dien Phu
(d) In 1953 at North Eastern valley
Ans. (c)
Q.29. The peace negotiations at Geneva after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu led to :
(a) Partition of Vietnam into North and South Vietnam
(b) Ho Chi Minh and the Communists took power in the North
(c) The Bao Dai's puppet regime was set up in the South (d) All the above
Q.30. The US joined the war in Vietnam because they were afraid of :
(a) The alliance of the Ho Chi Minh government of the North with the NLF of the South for the unification of Vietnam
(b) Growing communist power in the Vietnam
(c) The defeat of France and overthrow of Bao Dai
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.31. Dien Bien Phu became a very important symbol of struggle for the Vietnamese, because :
(a) It strengthened the Vietminh's conviction in their capacity to fight the powerful imperial forces
(b) They learnt the importance of determination and proper strategy
(c) The stories of the battle were retold and inspired the people in villages and cities
(d) All the above
Q.32. A napalm is :
(a) A chemical bomb which destroys millions
(b) An organic compound, used to thicken gasoline, burns slowly and sticks to human body and continues to burn
(c) A phosphorous bomb
(d) An atomic bomb but with greater power to kill
Q.33. The reaction within the USA was critical of the Vietnam war, because
(a) They had the elite escaping compulsory service and minorities and children of working class forced to do so
(b) They thought the US involvement was indefensible and were against compulsory service in the armed forces.
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) They were against the use of chemical weapons against the Vietnamese
Q.34. What do the letters of Colonel Do Sam of the North Vietnamese artillery tell you?
(a) How nationalism mingles personal love with love for the country and the desire for freedom
(b) How to fight a mighty nation and defeat it
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) How sacrifice is necessary for happiness
Q.35. As peace talks began in the 1970s, the women were now represented as
(a) Warriors and workers
(b) Only as workers
(c) As workers in agricultural cooperatives, factories and production units and not as warriors
(d) All the above
Q.36. How were women shown in magazines and journals in the 1960s?
(a) As housewives who looked after the home while the men fought
(b) As brave dedicated, fighters, shooting down planes
(c) As selfless workers with rifle in one hand and a hammer in the other
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.37. The Trung sisters were idealised and glorified because :
(a) They represented the indomitable will and intense patriotism of the Vietnamese
(b) They preferred to commit suicide, instead of surrendering to the Chinese when defeated
(c) Phan Boi Chau wrote about them in his play
(d) They gathered over 30,000 soldiers and fought the Chinese for two years
Q.38. How did the image of a New Woman emerge?
(a) The growth of the nationalist movement led to the change in the status of women
(b) Writers and political thinkers began idealising women who rebelled against social norms
(c) Nhat Linh's famous novel (1930) showed a woman leaving her forced marriage, marrying a nationalist, someone of her choice
(d) All the above
Q.39. The scholar, Noam Chomsky, called the Vietnam war : -
(a) 'A disastrous war for the US'
(b) The greatest threat to peace, to national self-determination, and to international cooperation
(c) 'A war worse than the Second World War'
(d) 'A failure of US to curb communism in Vietnam'
Q.40. Vietnamese women helped the resistance movement in Vietnam by
(a) Nursing the wounded, constructing underground rooms and tunnels and fighting the enemy
(b) They built six airstrips, neutralised tens of thousands of bombs, transported thousands of kilograms of cargo, weapons, food, and shot down 15 planes
(c) Kept open 2,195 km of strategic roads and guarded 2,500 key points
(d) All the above
Q.41. The USA underestimated the Vietnamese because they failed to understand
(a) The power of nationalism to move people to action, to sacrifice their home and family,
to live under horrific conditions
(b) The power of a small country to fight the most technologically advanced
country in the world
(c) The desire to fight for independence
(d) All the above
1.(d), 2.(c), 3.(b), 4.(d), 5.(d), 6.(b), 7.(c), 8.(c), 9.(c), 10.(c), 11.(d), 12.(c), 13.(d), 14.(d), 15.(d), 16.(b), 17.(a), 18.(b), 19.(d), 20.(d), 21.(c), 22. (d), 23.(d), 24.(d), 25.(b), 26.(d), 27.(d), 28.(c), 29.(d)
30.(d), 31.(d), 32.(b), 33.(c), 34.(c), 35.(c), 36.(d), 37.(a), 38.(d), 39.(b), 40.(d), 41.(b)
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