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