World History Pretest
  • 1. What type of government did Napoleon establish in France
A) Convention
B) Assembly
C) Consulate
D) Revolutionaries
  • 2. What system has workers repeat the same task repeatedly.
A) Indentured Servitude
B) Bessemer Process
C) Cottage Industry
D) Assembly Line
  • 3. Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?
A) Napoleon
B) Toussaint L'Ouverture
C) Simon Bolivar
D) George Washington
  • 4. Who wrote the Declaration of Indepence
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) George Washington
C) Samuel Adams
D) Alexander Hamilton
  • 5. How was Russia able to defeat Napoleon?
A) One decisive battle
B) Blockades
C) Scorched Earth
D) Continental System
  • 6. Who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution?
A) Farmers
B) Middle Class
C) Nobility
D) Working Class
  • 7. Who was the founder of Buddhism?
A) Jesus
B) Muhammad
C) Siddhartha
D) Abraham
  • 8. Who was the founder of Christianity?
A) Jesus
B) Siddhartha
C) Abraham
D) Muhammad
  • 9. Who was the founder of Judaism?
A) Muhammad
B) Jesus
C) Abraham
D) Siddhartha
  • 10. Who was the founder of Islam?
A) Abraham
B) Sidhartha
C) Jesus
D) Muhammad
  • 11. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs?
A) Juan Ponce De Leon
B) Hidalgo
C) Francisco Pizarro
D) Hernan Cortes
  • 12. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Inca's?
A) Hernan Cortes
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Magellan
D) Prince Henry
  • 13. What sailor was first to circumnavigate the world?
A) Magellan
B) Pizarro
C) Columbus
D) Cortes
  • 14. Who started the Protestant Reformation?
A) Gregory X
B) Leo V
C) Martin Luther
D) John Locke
  • 15. Who started the Church of England?
A) Gregory X
B) Leo III
C) Charlemagne
D) Henry VIII
  • 16. This city was the main trade hub between East and West
A) Ankara
B) Venice
C) Rome
D) Constantinople
  • 17. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Da Vinci
D) Donatello
  • 18. This term means rebirth.
A) Heresy
B) Purgatory
C) Renaissance
D) Indulgence
  • 19. A government that is run by a religion is called...
A) Democracy
B) Dictatorship
C) Theocracy
D) Monarchy
  • 20. This powerful family was the richest in the world during the Renaissance.
A) Bourbon
B) Medici
C) Caesar
D) Machiavelli
  • 21. This city was at the center of the Italian Renaissance.
A) Venice
B) Florence
C) Milan
D) Rome
  • 22. Famous scientist who argued the sun was the center of the universe, not earth.
A) Galileo
B) Pope Gregory X
C) Prince Henry
D) Leonidas
  • 23. This scientist invented Calculus to prove his theories
A) Herodotus
B) Galileo
C) Isaac Newton
D) Albert Einstein
  • 24. City in Germany where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses
A) Munich
B) Berlin
C) Wittenberg
D) Frankfurt
  • 25. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by who?
A) Da Vinci
B) Raphael
C) Michelangelo
D) Donatello
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