A) Curtailing the Power of the Nobility

Chapter 13 Test

1. The accomplishments of Frederick William the Great Elector include all of the following except A) curtailing the power of the nobility. B) establishment of a standing army. C) introduction of permanent taxation without consent. D) reduction of the power and independence of towns and cities. E) the abolition of serfdom.

2. Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate is best described as a A) popular democracy. B) cabinet-style parliamentary government. C) constitutional monarchy. D) military dictatorship. E) proletarian socialist state.

3. Mercantilist theory suggested that A) government should not interfere in the economy. B) imports and exports should be equally balanced. C) government intervention to secure a favorable balance of trade and the growth of national reserves of gold and silver. D) overseas colonies were an unwanted drain of valuable gold bullion. E) free trade would maximize the wealth of all nations.

4. Absolute kings claimed to rule by divine right, meaning they were responsible to A) only God B) only the people C) only the royal family D) their divine power E) the divine leadership of the bishops

5. The principles of the English Bill of Rights were formulated in direct response to A) the excess of Versailles B) the abuse of Peter the Great C) the leadership of Sir Robert Walpole D) Oliver Cromwell E) Stuart absolutism 6. The architecture of Versailles A) was surpassed by the palace of Peterhof B) under the management of Jean-Baptiste Colbert C) led to the Grand Alliance D) was used by Louis XIV to impress visitors E) rejected Gobelin tapestries that were woven in Paris.

7. The spark that caused the English Glorious Revolution was the A) conflict over taxation between Charles II and Parliament. B) fear of a Catholic dynasty being established by James II. C) economic dislocation from the civil war. D) defeat suffered in the War of the Spanish Succession. E) 1640 uprising in Ireland.

8. The guiding force behind Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies was A) reform of the church. B) a belief in decentralization. C) the subordination of all groups and institutions to the monarchy. D) the sovereignty of the people. E) hostility to the Huguenots.

9. James I made several poor choices as the ruler of England A) he relied on the honesty of the House of Commons for guidance B) he lacked the common touch with the people and was devoted to the theory of the divine right of kings C) he lacked political experience D) he supported the due process of law E) modeled his reign after the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

10. Charles I had ruled A) before James I B) a series of taxes placed upon the people of Scotland, Ireland and Wales C) without Parliament D) with the blessing of the Anglican Church E) with the support of the Huguenots.

11. Prussia's landowning classes were known as the A) Electors. B) Junkers. C) Kaisers. D) Burghers. E) Tartars. 12. The English Civil War tested whether sovereignty in England was to reside in the King or in the A) Queen B) House of Commons C) commonwealth D) Parliament E) army

13. The reign of Peter the Great was characterized by A) noble rebellion. B) relative peace. C) incessant civil war. D) economic and social transformation. E) a decrease in taxes.

14. The Restoration of 1660 reestablished the English monarchy and the rule of A) Charles II B) Charles I C) Louis XV D) Parliament E) William of Orange.

15) Under Peter the Great, Russia's boyars: A) gained power. B) became the primary agents of modernization. C) lost much of their power. D) were exiled to Siberia. E) launched two devastating insurrections.

16) St. Petersburg: A) was built on the Gulf of Sweden. B) exemplified Russia's new orientation to the West. C) was completed in 1709, but not inhabited until Russia defeated Sweden. D) was given that name by Lenin after the 1917 Russian Revolution. E) had been an important city for centuries when Peter the Great made it his capital. 17. Oliver Cromwell led an English invasion of Ireland primarily in order to A) gain manpower and resources for a war B) support the Roman Catholic nobility C) establish a base for harassing Spain’s Atlantic trade D) create a safe haven for Protestants outside England E) defeat a royalist uprising against the Parliamentary government

18. The, emblem above was used as a symbol for which of the following? (A) Napoleon I (B) Voltaire (C) Louis XIV (D) Colbert (E) Cardinal Mazarin

19. The French Fronde is best described as the (A) First government formed after the French Revolution (B) Civil war fought between Roman Catholics and Protestants (C) Revolt over increasing centralization of royal power (D) Wars between France and the Holy Roman Empire (E) Style of architecture developed under Louis XIV

20. Which of the following represents the final defeat of efforts by the Ottoman Empire to acquire large areas of central Europe? (A) The battle of Poltava (1709) (B) The battle of Lepanto (1571) (C) The battle of Nordhngen (1634) (D) The siege of Vienna (1683) (E) The fall of Constantinople (1453)

21. In seventeenth-century Poland, the most significant political influence was exercised by the (A) Nobility (B) Town councils (C) Polish monarch (D) Russian monarch (E) Hapsburg Empire

22. One of the main aims of the reforms in Russia under Peter the Great (1689-1725) was to make high social status more dependent on (A) Aristocratic lineage (B) service-to the state (C) Wealth (D) Ethnic origin (E) Membership in the Orthodox Church

23. In 1713 Emperor Charles VI sought approval of the Pragmatic Sanction in order to guarantee the (A) indivisibility of the Hapsburgs' lands (B) borders between Holland and the Austrian Netherlands (C) dynastic union of the Hapsburgs and the Romanovs (D) The right of the pragmatic faction to guarantee equal sanctions (E) succession of the Hanover family to the English throne

24. The principal reason why Louis XIV (1643-1715) built his palace at Versailles was to (A) tighten his control over the nobility (B) strengthen ties with the Huguenots (C) move the king's residence nearer to the center of the country (D) provide thousands of jobs (E) absorb the excess revenue produced by mercantilist tax policies

25. After the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil War and his execution in 1649, England was governed for a decade by (A) a democratic republic with universal suffrage (B) a commonwealth led by Oliver Cromwell and his son (C) a constitutional monarchy under King James II (D) the king of Scotland (E) a parliamentary council dominated by egalitarians KEY 12.D 1.E 13.D 2.D 14.A 3.C 15.C 4.A 16.B 5.E 17.E 6.D 18.C 7.B 19.C 8.C 20. D 9.B 21.A 10.C 22.B `11.B 23. A 24. A 25. B