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