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Practice Quiz, Chapter 16

1. “He showed a disinclination toward Paris. The troubles that had taken place there during his minority made him regard the place as dangerous; he wished, too, to render himself venerable by hiding from the eyes of the multitude.”

The author of the passage above is referring to:

  1. Henry IV
  2. Charles V
  3. Philip II
  4. Cardinal Richelieu
  5. Louis XIV

2. The Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 in England is called “Glorious” because it

  1. was bloodless and successful
  2. established democratic government
  3. restored the Stuart dynasty
  4. restrained aristocratic power
  5. overthrew Oliver Cromwell

3. The French aristocracy was attracted to the Court of Versailles for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

  1. the lavish entertainment
  2. the chance earn the king’s favor
  3. easy access to political power
  4. social rivalry with their peers
  5. good hunting and shooting

4. Who confessed on his deathbed that he “loved war too much?”

  1. Charles II
  2. Oliver Cromwell
  3. Louis XIV
  4. James II
  5. Cardinal Richelieu

5. “Restoration” is a term most commonly used by historians to describe

  1. the shift to a more radical phase in a revolution
  2. the return of a deposed dynasty
  3. achievement of a balance of power between political factions
  4. a shift in diplomatic alliances
  5. the return of economic stability after a depression

6. Louis XIV used all of the following methods to assert his absolute power EXCEPT

  1. appointed intendants as provincial officials directly answerable to him
  2. made great nobles hold his nightshirt as he went to bed
  3. built the great palace of Versailles
  4. spent long hours examining official papers
  5. granted Huguenots independence within France

7. Which of the following pairs is matched incorrectly?

  1. The Duke of Sully : The paulette (tax on office holding)
  2. Cardinal Richelieu : intendants and generalities
  3. Jean-Baptiste Colbert : mercantilism
  4. Louis XIV : Issuing the Edict of Nantes
  5. Cardinal Mazarin : The Fronde

8. England and France differed in the late 17th century because England

  1. had a strong monarch and France a weak one
  2. was Catholic and France was Protestant
  3. established democracy in contrast to French Absolutism
  4. had a strong aristocracy and France a weak one
  5. had no empire while France had a substantial one

9. The overthrow of James II of England was caused by all of the following EXCEPT

  1. his Roman Catholic faith
  2. the birth of a male heir
  3. his political ineptitude (clumsiness)
  4. his preference for Scotland
  5. his appointment of Irish Catholics to army officerships

10. The most serious challenges to Louis XIV in wartime came from William of Orange and______

  1. James II
  2. Sir John Churchill
  3. Charles II
  4. Jean-Baptiste Colbert
  5. Oliver Cromwell
  1. Place these events in the correct sequence:

I. Restoration II. Scots rebellion III. Petition of Right IV. Commonwealth V. Glorious Revolution

  1. II, I , III, IV, V
  2. III, II , V, IV, I
  3. III, II, IV, I, V
  4. II, III, IV, I, V
  5. IV, II, III, I, V

Yes, they really have a question like this on every AP Exam!

  1. A “Cavalier” is likely to be all of the following except:
  1. A wealthy landowner
  2. A “HighChurch” Anglican
  3. A government officeholder
  4. A Scots Presbyterian
  5. A staunch Royalist
  1. It’s most accurate to describe Cromwell’s Commonwealth as
  1. Constitutional monarchy
  2. A republic
  3. An oligarchy
  4. A military dictatorship
  5. A confederation

X. They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained…

  1. The passage above is excerpted from which document?
  1. The English Bill of Rights, 1689
  2. The Petition of Right, 1628
  3. The Instrument of Government, 1649
  4. Magna Carta, 1215
  5. The Triennial Act, 1641
  1. Which name below belongs to a statesman who was the first to begin to lay the groundwork for French absolutism?
  1. Mazarin
  2. Colbert
  3. Richelieu
  4. Sully
  5. Moliere
  1. One was a rising economic world power, the other—ironically, due to its wealth, especially in precious metals—was beginning its long decline. This statement refers to
  1. Holland and England
  2. England and France
  3. France and the Hapsburg Empire
  4. Holland and Spain
  5. Spain and France
  1. Charles II differed the most from his predecessor, Oliver Cromwell in that the king
  1. openly practiced his Roman Catholic faith in defiance of his advisors
  2. was more willing to give up substantial political power to Parliament
  3. loved the pursuit of pleasure and was scientifically curious
  4. agreed to rule with a constitution that created a genuine representative democracy
  5. was a weak ruler, while Cromwell was a strong one
  1. It was ______that ended the Dutch “Golden Age”
  1. trade wars with commercial rivals
  2. rampant inflation
  3. renewed conflict with Spain
  4. the expense of New World colonies
  5. defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession
  1. Which of these doesn’t belong to the economic theory of mercantilism, the one embraced by Colbert in France and by Great Britain, as well?
  1. The acquisition of colonies
  2. Government inspection of manufactures
  3. Free trade among all nations
  4. Maintaining a surplus of gold in the nation’s treasury
  5. Exporting more than importing
  1. St. Paul’s Cathedral is a powerful reminder of England’s recovery from
  1. The Civil War
  2. The religious controversy ended by Elizabeth I
  3. The years of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth
  4. The unrest that led to the Glorious Revolution
  5. The catastrophic London fire of 1666

Part Two. Blasts from the Past. Match the term with the appropriate clue.

  1. Act of Supremacy
  2. Act of Uniformity
  3. Babington Plot
  4. Council of Trent
  5. Anabaptist
  6. Consistory
  7. Peace of Augsburg
  8. Presbyterian
  9. Predestination
  10. Jesuits

Part Three. A little Central and Eastern European review. “A” for Austria, or the Hapsburg Empire; “P” for Prussia, “R” for Russia

____31. Frederick William I, the "Soldiers' King," began to create an essentially militaristic society in this state.

____32. One of its great handicaps was its location—vast and wild, and, a one time, without a single port that wasn’t frozen over at least part of the year.

____33. So resource-poor that snooty Europeans referred to it as “The Sandbox of Europe.”

____34. Cut down a few notches by France in the Thirty Years’ War, this nation made a “comeback” by pushing the Ottoman Turks out of central Europe.

____35. Its major weakness, as always, was that it was divided—among many different ethnic and language groups.

____36. Its nobles, called junkers, became army officers and eventually got to wear the pickelhaube, the cool spiky helmet.

____37. Its nobles, boyars, had their beards whacked off by an emperor determined to make his people more “Western.”

____38. Wasn’t even one contiguous nation—it was divided into two parts, separated by a strip of Poland.

____39. They defeated the Hungarians who wanted independence, but they never crushed them.

____40. Fought a long war with Sweden that culminated with the decisive Battle of Poltava, winning them a “Window on the West.”

Answer key:

  1. E --it’s a reference to the Fronde
  2. A –from the movie excerpt we watched
  3. C –they were under Louis’ thumb: The “Gilded Cage”
  4. C –his wars would bankrupt France
  5. B –in this chapter, the Restoration refers to Charles II, who became king in 1660
  6. E –he revoked the Edict of Nantes
  7. D-Henry IV issued the Edict
  8. D –Louis’ nobles were the ducklings; he was the Mama Duck
  9. D –the Stuarts hadn’t lived in Scotland since James I (became king 1603)
  10. B –In a couple of chapters, we’ll look at the palace Churchill built to celebrate his victories
  11. C –the trick to this kind of question: Pick the event you know came first or last and go from there
  12. D –A Scots Presbyterian would’ve liked the Roundheads
  13. D –Mr. Lord Protector
  14. B --it’s reminding Charles he doesn’t have the right to tax arbitrarily
  15. D –Sully was Henry IV’s chief minister
  16. D—other than the great novel Don Quixote, this is not a great century for Spain
  17. C –his nickname was “The Merry Monarch”
  18. A –the Anglo-Dutch Naval War, which I’d never heard of until they made me write a DBQ about it. I didn’t even know they were upset.
  19. C- Mercantilists didn’t like free trade: they demanded, for example, that colonies trade ONLY with the “Mother Country”
  20. E-from the film notes

  1. G
  2. A
  3. C
  4. H
  5. B
  6. E
  7. I
  8. F
  9. J
  10. D
  11. P
  12. R
  13. P
  14. A
  15. A
  16. P
  17. R
  18. P
  19. A
  20. R

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