Ch 13 Sherman

1.-During the 17th Century

A) Several monarchies became absolute

B) The English monarchy remained tranquil, not having to face any revolutionary movement

C) The Russian monarchy collapsed utterly

D) No constitutional monarch survived the crises of the century

E. The Industrial Revolution sped up the destruction of the family

2.-The traditional society of 17th century Europe

A) Overthrown in a revolution

B) Destroyed by the pressure put upon it by absolute monarchs

C) Based on a hierarchy of ranks and subranks that covered everyone from the highest to the lowest D) Believed that all men (but not all women) were created equal

E. Had the patricians rule and the plebeians as unequals

3.-17th Century rural life was characterized by

A) Low taxes paid to the government

B) Poverty, disease, and famine

C) Early marriages and numerous and healthy children

D. Increase in movement because of the development of trains

E) none of the above

4.-The roots of French royal absolutism were laid in the days of

A) James I B) Suleiman the Magnificent C) Peter the Great D) Henry IV E. Louis XVI

5.-The Cardinal de Richelieu

A) Became king of France, deposing Louis XIII

B) Strengthened royal authority by curbing the powers of the nobility and the Huguenots C) Used his influence with Louis XIII to have himself elected pope

D) Won the gratitude of French peasants by his peaceful, low tax policies

E. Used his power to appoint 4 popes

6.-Cardinal Jules Mazarin

A) Successfully reasserted royal authority that had been badly shaken by the mid-17th century rebellion known as the Fronde

B) Was executed by orders of Louis XIV when the latter became old enough to rule by himself C) Virtually ruled France in the reign of Louis XIII

D) By his religious intolerance, started the Thirty Years' War

E. Started the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask

7.-It can be said of the reign of Louis XIV

A) That it became the model of absolute monarchy, but was disfigured by high taxes and growing misery caused by expensive wars

B) That it ended in a major revolution that made France a constitutional monarchy

C) That it was an era of peace and low taxation

D) That French culture nearly collapsed, due to the negligence of the virtually illiterate monarch

E.) End with the rise of Imperialism

8.-Jean-Baptiste Colbert was known for

A) Freeing French industry from minute government regulations

B) Giving France a European reputation for the quality of its products

C) Virtually bankrupting France by his increase of royal expenses

D) Dominating the government by means of his high noble birth

E.) Spreading the word of Christ through Baptism

9.-The "Age of Louis XIV" saw all of the following except

A) A major flowering of French literature and theater

B) A development in the visual arts, moving from Baroque to Classical style

C) Attempts to promote industry and increase exports through government subsidy and regulation

D) An attempt to increase social equality by curbing the privileges of the nobility

E. Develop a strong standing army

10.-The wars of Louis XIV

A) Were fought primarily against the Huguenots

B) Led to the French conquest of Britain

C) Were so expensive that they left France with a legacy of high taxes and increased poverty

D) Were fought to secure the independence of the Dutch from Spain

E) Expand colonial claims in South Asia

11.-Eastern Europe differed sharply from Western Europe in the 17th Century in many ways, including

A) There were fewer nobles and greater social equality

B) The towns were far wealthier

C) Except for Russia, all the monarchies were absolute

D) The peasants of Eastern Europe tended to be serfs rather than free

E) Greater movement towards democratic govts in Eastern Europe

12.-Frederick William, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg-Prussia, succeeded because

A) He freed the serfs, thus undermining an overly powerful nobility

B) He prevailed over the Estates, raised a strong army, and gave nobles greater control over the serfs

C) He promoted town growth to serve as a balance against noble power

D) His ability to unite the upper and lower Diets

E) None of the above

13.-The most important accomplishment of Austria in the 17th C under Leopold I was

A) The defeat of the Ottoman Turks and the conquest of Hungary

B) The conquest of Poland

C) The construction of the great palace of Versailles

D) The imposition of Protestantism in his domains

E) Establish Vienna as the capital

14.-Before the reign of Peter the Great, Russia

A) Had a very weak monarchy

B) Abolished serfdom

C) Established a tradition of strongly autocratic monarchy

D) Conquered Poland

E) Was Western oriented

15.-Peter the Great made Russia a European power by his defeat of

A)Sweden B) Austria C) Italy D) Spain E) Japan

16.-In his policies, Peter the Great of Russia did all of the following except

A) Introduce Western customs into Russia, bringing women out of seclusion

B) Travel to Western Europe to learn about politics and technology

C) Wage a series of wars that made Russia a European power

D) Introduce constitutional monarchy into Russia

E) Westernized the military

17.-Seventeenth Century Poland

A) Became a monarchy as absolute as that of Russia

B) Had a flourishing commerce

C) Was so dominated by its nobility that no strong centralized monarchy arose there

D) Greatly expanded its territories at the expense of Russia and Austria

E) Built Warsaw into a cultural Mecca

18.-The English Puritans

A) Wanted to overthrow Church of England

B) Wished to purify not only Church of England, but also daily life by outlawing theaters, cock-fighting,

and other "frivolous" activities

C) Reunited Protestant and Catholic churches

D) Strongly advocated submission to the will of the monarch

E) Expanded the belief in Catholicism

19.-During the 17th century the English monarchy

A) Imitated closely the absolute monarchy of France

B) Imposed Catholicism on England

C) Lost control of Scotland

D) Saw its power weakened because of two revolutions

E) Expanded the use of Indulgences to support the wars in Ireland

20.-During the reign of James I

A) Monarch renounced idea of Divine Right of kings

B) King successfully resolved the Puritan problem

C) Colonies of Virginia and Plymouth established

D) He created the Petition of Rights

E) None of the above

21.-Charles I of England did all of the following except

A) Marry a Catholic princess, sister of the king of France

B) Engage in expensive and fruitless wars

C) Disband Parliaments when the members demanded concessions

D) Persecute the Puritans

E). Get beheaded

22.-The Civil War in England

A) Resulted in the destruction of Parliament by Charles I

B) Saw complete social equality established in England by the Levelers

C) Saw no women serve as soldiers

D) Resulted in a Parliamentary victory over Charles I, who was captured

E) Brought the Declaration of the Rights of Man

23.-The Levelers in England during the English CW

A) Managed to seize control of Parliament

B) Believed in the total equality of men and women

C) Advocated that Parliament be elected by all male heads of households and that the members be paid

D) Were not perceived as threats to right of property ownership

E) Argued for equality of the different English Religions

24.-The trial of Charles I by the English Parliament was of grand significance because

A) The heart of the matter was whether the king was subject to the laws of Parliament and had broken

them, or whether a king who ruled by divine right could ever be charged by a subordinate body.

B) It raised the issue of freedom of the press when newspapers, which had started to spring up during

the English Civil War, were not permitted to cover the trial

C) The real issue was whether the Stuarts, as Scots, had the right to succeed to the English throne

D) The Reformation itself was at stake--the maintenance of Protestantism or the restoration of Catholicism

E. Executed a Bourbon King for the first time

25.-In English history, the Commonwealth refers to

A) The period after the execution of Charles I, when Oliver Cromwell ruled

B) The period when the monarchy was restored under Charles II

C) The period of the Reformation

D) The period of the Hundred Years' War

E) The lack of power by the Absolute Monarch

26.-Cromwell's political power in England was based on

A) His control of the army, with the resulting military dictatorship

B) His ability to play king and Parliament against each other

C) His blatant, amoral, irreligious opportunism

D) His charismatic appeal to the Catholics

E) None of the above

27.-In his political treatise, The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued

A) That human beings once lived in a benevolent state of nature and that this state can be reconstituted

B) That it is possible to reconcile the idea of sovereignty in which the people have the right to rule, with that of absolute monarchy

C) That because of defects in human nature, only monarchy unrestricted by popular opinion could exist

D) That the idea of popular sovereignty precludes hereditary absolute monarchy

E) The anglixcan church was equal to the Church of Rome

28.-The English king restored in 1660 was A) Charles II B) James II C) William II D) George II

29.-Samuel Pepys

A) Was a noted English political philosopher of the 17th century who wrote extensively on popular

sovereignty

B) Was a 17th century English Puritan who, after the collapse of the Commonwealth, wrote the Pilgrim's

Progress

C) Was a lesser government official in Restoration England who kept a diary that reveals much about the

politics and the society of that time \

D) Was a close friend of Isaac Newton and himself prominent in the English scientific world

E) Was a friend to Tetzel and collected indulgences in England

30.-John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government

A) Agreed with Hobbes that people for their own security must turn over their sovereignty to the monarch B) Argued that the people had made a contract with the king and could depose the monarch if he broke the contract

C) Argued that the Glorious Revolution was illegal and that James II was the rightful king of England D) Argued that landless men and women were included in the "people" who had sovereignty

E. Stated that property was an evil on society and should be done away with

31.-The Dutch Republic in the 17th Century was noted

A) For its political instability

B) For its fierce persecution of religious minorities

C) For its prosperity and religious toleration

D) For its strong support of Spanish policies

E) For its building of Dykes to block of Belgium

32.-The Dutch were able to maintain their tradition of local sovereignty when most successful states of the

17th century were developing strong central government because

A) The nobility was extremely wealthy and proud, and did not want a king-or any central govt over them

B) They were able to exclude religious dissenters from their small state so that there was no organized minority that had to be controlled by centralized force

C) The great prosperity of the Dutch in the 17thC moderated any pressure to impose a strong authority from above

D) Because the African slave trade was an important source for Dutch prosperity there was fear that a strong central government might abolish this lucrative business

E) Of its isolated location

33.-The society of Europe in the 17th century is properly described as hierarchical, with people ordered in

ranks and sub-ranks. A) True B) False

34.-The major expenses for kings were on their vast palaces and increasingly elaborate court entertainments.

A) True B) False

35.-Absolute monarchs of 17th century achieved dictatorial control over their countries. A) True B) False

36.-Richelieu appointed a reliable set of royal agents called the intendants.. A) True B) False

37.-Cardinal Mazarin was dismissed from office in France because of his inability to suppress the revolt

known as the Fronde. A) True B) False

38.-Louis XIV used his grand palace at Versailles in part to attract important members of the nobility away

from important local centers of power. A) True B) False

39.-Louis XIV's wars left France with major problems of debt that were never resolved during the Old

Regime. A) True B) False

40.-Unlike Charles I of England, who was dethroned by his Estates [Parliament], Frederick William of

Brandenburg-Prussia prevailed in his struggle with his Estates, gaining enhanced tax powers. A) T B) F

41.-Leopold I of Austria's success based on strong cooperation with the Hungarian nobility.A)True B)False

42.-Peter the Great made Russia an important European power through his overwhelming defeat of the

Ottoman Turks. A) True B) False

43.-The kings of Poland crushed the resistance of Polish nobles, townsmen, and peasants, making them the

strongest rulers in Eastern Europe except for Russia. A) True B) False

44.-The English Puritans were noted for their strong insistence on strict moral practices while showing

indifference to the doctrines and practices of the Anglican Church. A) True B) False

____________45.-Life expectancy for a person in the 17th century was probably less than years.

___________46. In many 17thC countries, half of government expenses went not to royal palaces, but too the.

____________47. .-The elevated royal authority of the 17th century was often referred to as.

____________48. The roots of French absolutism can be traced to the reign of King.

____________49. .-The chief minister of France in the reign of Louis XIII was

__________________50.-The great palace of Louis XIV was built at _.

_______________________51.-Undertaking mercantilist economic policies in the reign of Louis XIV was.

__________________52.-The last of the great wars of Louis XIV was.

__________________53.-The Elector of Brandenburg who greatly increased that area's power was _

_________________54.-Leopold I of Austria was only partially successful in his attempt to control the nobility of

__________________55.-A major 17th century peasant revolt, led by Stenka Razin, took place in

__________________56.-Peter the Great made Russia a major power by his defeat of

___________57.-A monarchy large in territory but suffering decline because of a lack of a strong central govt was

__________________58.-The 17th century alternative to absolute monarchy is called

________59.- 17thC English Protestants who worked to alter the rituals of the Anglican church and ban frivolous

activities were the

________________________60.-James I believed strongly in a political theory called

________________________61.-A group of radical Protestants during the English Civil War who demanded that

Parliament be elected by all the male householders, were called the

____________________62.-The dominant figure in the English Commonwealth, virtually a military dictator, was.

________63.-Great political treatise on sovereignty, written during the Eng Civil war by Thomas Hobbes, was the

________________________64.-After the death of Cromwell, was restored as king of England.

_______65.-Religious issues to come to the fore once again under James II (Eng) because of his ? sympathies.

________________________66.-The English revolution of 1688 that overthrew James II is often called the _

________________________67.-The Second Treatise on Civil Government, which argued that the people had the right to change the sovereign if he violated his contract with the people, was

_________68.-Perhaps the area in which the Dutch differed the most from other European countries was policy of

69.-Put the following into chronological order.

________________________ Cossack Revolt in Russia,

________________________ English Civil War,

________________________ Execution of Charles I

________________________ Hobbes publishes the Leviathan

________________________ John Locke publishes the Second Treatise of Govt

________________________ Reign of Louis XIV

________________________ Reign of Peter the Great

________________________ Restoration of Charles II

________________________ The accession of Charles I

________________________ The accession of James I

________________________ The Fronde in France

________________________ The Glorious Revolution

________________________ Treaty of Nystad

________________________ Treaty of Utrecht