Topic 3 AP Exam Practice
Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1 to 3 refer to the passage below.
“I have warned you again and again not to dally in those villages, where there is nothing to do—but you continue to saunter, ignoring the fact that soldiers are running short of food. They are receiving their pay, but the money will not last forever. Then they will all depart, leaving us to pay with our lives, because you must have learned by this time that they came only for reasons of self-interest, and to get all they can out of us. They are already beginning to desert. . . .Thus we will lose all the people that I have gotten together for the descent on Cuzco. . . . I gave you plenty of warnings to march immediately on Cuzco, but you took them all lightly, giving the Spaniards time to prepare as they have done, placing cannon on Picchu Mountain, and devising other measures so dangerous that you are no longer in a position to attack them. . . . God must want me to suffer my sins. Your wife.
P. S After I had finished this letter, a messenger arrived with the definite news that the enemy from Paruro is in Acos; I am going forward to attack them, even if it costs me my life.”
Micaela Bastidas, letter to Túpac Amaru II, 1780
1. What does the above letter indicate about the author’s point of view?
- (A) She believed the Spanish were fighting only to earn money.
- (B) She did not understand the importance of planning for rebellion.
- (C) She supported the rebellion of indigenous people in Peru against the Spanish.
- (D) She was too anxious to be a valuable contributor to the rebellion.
2. Which statement provides the most useful context in evaluating the author’s argument about the Spanish?
- (A) She and her husband were able to escape the Spaniards and flee into the Andean wilderness.
- (B) She and her husband were brutally executed by the Spaniards.
- (C) She and her husband’s forces defeated the Spanish conquerors.
- (D) She and her husband made peace with the Spaniards and were given a role in the colonial government.
3. How was the rebellion of Túpac Amaru II different from other Latin American rebellions?
- (A) Its leader identified as a person of European ancestry.
- (B) It was effective in changing governmental policy.
- (C) Its leader identified as an Incan.
- (D) It received support from Spain’s rivals for influence.
Short-Answer Questions
1. Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
“It is well known to all that in this age the people of Hindustan [northern India], both Hindus and Muslims, are being ruined under the tyranny and oppression of the infidel [unbeliever] and the treacherous English. It is therefore the bounden duty of all the wealthy people of India, especially of those who have any sort of connection with any of the Muslim royal families and are considered the pastors and masters of their people, to stake their lives and property for the well-being of the public. . . . I, who am the grandson of Bahadur Shah, have . . . come here to extirpate [destroy] the infidels residing in the eastern part of the country, and to liberate and protect the poor helpless people now groaning under their iron rule. . . .
Several of the Hindu and Muslim chiefs who . . . have been trying their best to root out the English in India, have presented themselves to me and taken part in the reigning Indian crusade. . . . [B]e it known to all, that the ancient works both of the Hindus and the Muslims, the writings of the miracle-workers, and the calculations of the astrologers, pundits [learned persons] and rammals [fortune-tellers], all agree, asserting that the English will no longer have any footing in India or elsewhere. Therefore, it is incumbent on all to give up the hope of the continuation of the British sway, [and to] side with me. . . .”
Firoz Shah, Proclamation in the Delhi Gazette, 1857
2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.