- 1. When was the Dutch East India Company founded?
A) 1660
B) 1700
C) 1602
D) 1750
- 2. Where was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company located?
A) Berlin
B) Amsterdam
C) London
D) Paris
- 3. Which country did the Dutch East India Company compete with in the spice trade?
A) Spain
B) England
C) Portugal
D) France
- 4. What was the administrative body of the Dutch East India Company called?
A) The East India Assembly
B) The East Indies Guild
C) The Board of Governors
D) The Council of the Indies
- 5. What was the Dutch East India Company's main trading port in Indonesia?
A) Surabaya
B) Semarang
C) Jakarta
D) Batavia
- 6. What was the significance of the Dutch East India Company's trade monopoly in the East Indies?
A) It encouraged collaboration with local traders
B) It promoted fair competition with other European companies
C) It limited the company's expansion possibilities
D) It allowed the company to control prices and maximize profits
- 7. Which Dutch explorer is credited with mapping much of the Australian coastline for the first time?
A) Willem Janszoon
B) Jan van Riebeeck
C) Jacob Roggeveen
D) Wouter Schouten
- 8. Which treaty signed in 1667 marked the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War and reinforced the Dutch trading monopoly in the East Indies?
A) Treaty of Breda
B) Treaty of Tordesillas
C) Treaty of Utrecht
D) Treaty of Versailles
- 9. In what year did the Dutch government nationalize the Dutch East India Company's assets?
A) 1798
B) 1700
C) 1750
D) 1800
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