World History Pretest
  • 1. What type of government did Napoleon establish in France
A) Convention
B) Consulate
C) Assembly
D) Revolutionaries
  • 2. What system has workers repeat the same task repeatedly.
A) Assembly Line
B) Indentured Servitude
C) Cottage Industry
D) Bessemer Process
  • 3. Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?
A) Simon Bolivar
B) George Washington
C) Toussaint L'Ouverture
D) Napoleon
  • 4. Who wrote the Declaration of Indepence
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Samuel Adams
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) George Washington
  • 5. How was Russia able to defeat Napoleon?
A) Blockades
B) One decisive battle
C) Continental System
D) Scorched Earth
  • 6. Who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution?
A) Middle Class
B) Working Class
C) Farmers
D) Nobility
  • 7. Who was the founder of Buddhism?
A) Siddhartha
B) Jesus
C) Abraham
D) Muhammad
  • 8. Who was the founder of Christianity?
A) Muhammad
B) Jesus
C) Abraham
D) Siddhartha
  • 9. Who was the founder of Judaism?
A) Siddhartha
B) Jesus
C) Muhammad
D) Abraham
  • 10. Who was the founder of Islam?
A) Jesus
B) Sidhartha
C) Muhammad
D) Abraham
  • 11. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs?
A) Hernan Cortes
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Hidalgo
D) Juan Ponce De Leon
  • 12. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Inca's?
A) Magellan
B) Hernan Cortes
C) Prince Henry
D) Francisco Pizarro
  • 13. What sailor was first to circumnavigate the world?
A) Magellan
B) Cortes
C) Pizarro
D) Columbus
  • 14. Who started the Protestant Reformation?
A) Gregory X
B) John Locke
C) Leo V
D) Martin Luther
  • 15. Who started the Church of England?
A) Charlemagne
B) Leo III
C) Henry VIII
D) Gregory X
  • 16. This city was the main trade hub between East and West
A) Venice
B) Constantinople
C) Ankara
D) Rome
  • 17. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A) Michelangelo
B) Da Vinci
C) Raphael
D) Donatello
  • 18. This term means rebirth.
A) Renaissance
B) Indulgence
C) Heresy
D) Purgatory
  • 19. A government that is run by a religion is called...
A) Democracy
B) Theocracy
C) Dictatorship
D) Monarchy
  • 20. This powerful family was the richest in the world during the Renaissance.
A) Bourbon
B) Medici
C) Machiavelli
D) Caesar
  • 21. This city was at the center of the Italian Renaissance.
A) Rome
B) Milan
C) Florence
D) Venice
  • 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) Galileo
B) Isaac Newton
C) Herodotus
D) Albert Einstein
  • 24. City in Germany where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses
A) Frankfurt
B) Wittenberg
C) Berlin
D) Munich
  • 25. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by who?
A) Donatello
B) Raphael
C) Michelangelo
D) Da Vinci
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