- 1. When was the Dutch East India Company founded?
A) 1750
B) 1700
C) 1660
D) 1602
- 2. Where was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company located?
A) Paris
B) London
C) Berlin
D) Amsterdam
- 3. Which country did the Dutch East India Company compete with in the spice trade?
A) England
B) Spain
C) Portugal
D) France
- 4. What was the administrative body of the Dutch East India Company called?
A) The East Indies Guild
B) The Council of the Indies
C) The East India Assembly
D) The Board of Governors
- 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 limited the company's expansion possibilities
B) It encouraged collaboration with local traders
C) It promoted fair competition with other European companies
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) Jan van Riebeeck
B) Jacob Roggeveen
C) Willem Janszoon
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 Versailles
B) Treaty of Tordesillas
C) Treaty of Utrecht
D) Treaty of Breda
- 9. In what year did the Dutch government nationalize the Dutch East India Company's assets?
A) 1800
B) 1750
C) 1700
D) 1798
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