Quiz for America Compared:
China’s Growing Empire

Question

1. Which of the following characteristics of their non-Chinese subjects seemed particularly important to these authors?

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Correct. The answer is c. Each of these excerpts emphasizes the subjects’ allegedly violent natures and their propensity for killing their enemies.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Each of these excerpts emphasizes the subjects’ allegedly violent natures and their propensity for killing their enemies.

Question

2. The excerpts in this feature, which describe different groups of non-Chinese people from a Chinese perspective, share which of the following characteristics with Anglo-Americans’ descriptions of Native Americans in the eighteenth century?

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Correct. The answer is c. Like the Anglo-Americans’ descriptions of Native Americans in the eighteenth century, these Chinese descriptions of non-Chinese people put a major emphasis on the groups’ natural brutality.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Like the Anglo-Americans’ descriptions of Native Americans in the eighteenth century, these Chinese descriptions of non-Chinese people put a major emphasis on the groups’ natural brutality.