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AP World History Unit 5 Drill 13

Drill 13 · Multiple Choice · Unit 5: Revolutions

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About This Drill

AP World History Unit 5 Drill 13 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 5: Revolutions. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This drill focuses on the intellectual context and causes of the Atlantic Revolutions from c. 1750 to c. 1900, with attention to how Enlightenment ideas shaped independence movements in Latin America. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.

Passage

Adapted from SimĂłn BolĂ­var, "Letter from Jamaica," written in exile in Kingston, Jamaica, 1815 CE, with substantial paraphrase.

"We were never viceroys or governors except by extraordinary grace; we were never archbishops or bishops; rarely judges; never military commanders — and all of this merely because of our birth in America, not because of our lack of virtue or talent. We were absentees in terms of power, though present as subjects. We Americans were always below even the Europeans born in Spain, who without merit or service obtained in this country what we could never gain despite our abilities. We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are a mixed species. I desire to see America fashioned into the greatest nation in the world, great not so much by virtue of her area and wealth as by her freedom and glory."

Questions in This Drill

  1. Which of the following best describes BolĂ­var's central argument in this passage?
  2. BolĂ­var wrote this letter while in exile in Jamaica in 1815, after early independence campaigns had been defeated. This context most likely shaped his argument by
  3. BolĂ­var's argument that Americans were excluded from power "merely because of our birth in America" is best understood in the context of which broader development?
  4. BolĂ­var's argument in this passage most closely resembles the arguments made in which of the following documents from the same era?
  5. Which of the following best describes a significant limitation of the independence movements BolĂ­var led, in terms of continuity with the colonial past?