The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 13: The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The increasing taxes levied on peasants during the seventeenth century resulted in
A)an expansion of sown area.
B)tax revolts.
C)an unprecedented wave of entrepreneurship.
D)better social services.
2
Seventeenth-century European monarchs justified their rule by reference to
A)divine right.
B)a constitution.
C)the law of heredity.
D)strong armies.
3
Henry IV ended the religious wars between Protestants and Catholics in France by issuing
A)the Treaty of Augsburg.
B)the intendant.
C)the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
D)the Edict of Nantes.
4
Cardinal Richelieu strengthened the position of the French monarchy by
A)continuing Henry IV's reforms.
B)expanding the nobility of the robe to create more popular support.
C)destroying nobles who opposed the king and creating the intendant system.
D)granting further rights to the French Huguenots.
5
During the reign of Louis XIV, France fought all of the following wars EXCEPT
A)the War of Devolution.
B)the War of the League of Augsburg.
C)the War of Spanish Succession.
D)the Seven Years' War.
6
Most of the land in eastern Europe was worked by
A)free peasants.
B)serfs.
C)day laborers.
D)Junkers.
7
Frederick William solidified his position and enhanced the status of the state of Brandenburg-Prussia by
A)strengthening his standing army.
B)reforming the bureaucracy.
C)freeing the serfs.
D)avoiding costly wars.
8
The Russian ruler who attempted to westernize and modernize Russia was
A)Ivan the Terrible.
B)Tsar Fyodor.
C)Michael Romanov.
D)Peter I.
9
The Russian Law Code of 1649
A)exempted nobles from paying taxes.
B)merged peasants and slaves into a class of serfs.
C)lowered the term of service for military conscripts.
D)created a uniform system of local government.
10
Peter the Great allowed people to move up through the ranks of the nobility only because of
A)merit.
B)service in the military.
C)education.
D)family origin.
11
Under Peter the Great, Russia, through military victory, gained a port on
A)the Black Sea.
B)the Danube.
C)the Arctic Ocean.
D)the Baltic Sea.
12
In Poland, a strong central government failed to form because
A)no Polish monarch wanted such responsibility.
B)a constitution limited the power of the king.
C)the nobles in the Polish Diet were able to safeguard their power.
D)putting down peasant uprisings sapped state finances.
13
The official church of England was the
A)Presbyterian church.
B)Anglican church.
C)Puritan church.
D)Catholic church.
14
After its members forced Charles I to agree that he could not disband them without their consent, the English Parliament became known as the
A)Rump Parliament.
B)Long Parliament.
C)Diet.
D)Duma.
15
The parliamentary forces that fought against Charles I and were led by Oliver Cromwell were called the
A)Quakers.
B)Cavaliers.
C)Roundheads.
D)Knights.
16
Because of the turbulence and severe economic problems suffered by England in the 1640s, a group calling for social justice emerged and were known as the
A)Puritans.
B)Quakers.
C)Parliamentarians.
D)Levellers.
17
During his trial, Charles I continually maintained that
A)he ruled by divine right.
B)Parliament had no right to bring charges against him.
C)sovereignty resided in Parliament.
D)he should be tried as a private citizen.
18
In his political treatise The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued that
A)humans created a "social contract" with their rulers by which they willingly surrendered their sovereignty.
B)kings ruled by divine right.
C)citizens had the right to depose a king who broke his side of the contract.
D)people were capable of maintaining their sovereignty and ruling themselves.
19
In the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Parliament asked which Protestant leader to take over the English throne?
A)Charles II
B)James II
C)William of Orange
D)Louis XIV
20
In the United Provinces, or the Dutch Republic, sovereignty remained the prerogative of the people and political power remained localized for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that
A)Dutch economic prosperity facilitated political independence.
B)the Dutch aristocracy was not historically wealthy and had more in common with merchants.
C)Protestant religion cultivated an ideology of moderation and religious toleration there.
D)this region had never been ruled by an absolute monarch.
21
The lives of peasants in seventeenth-century Europe were usually patterned after a set of social norms. For example, peasants typically owed increasingly burdensome services to their political and spiritual superiors. What is another such characteristic of seventeenth-century peasant life?
A)Peasants tended to marry young.
B)Men did heavier work than women.
C)Children were the focus of family life.
D)Most marriages ended in divorce.
22
After 1600, monarchs typically centralized power by
A)granting aristocrats invitations to the royal court.
B)suppressing the bourgeoisie.
C)granting local autonomy to the aristocracy.
D)suppressing the lower nobility.
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