- 1. Most scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.
A) FALSE
B) TRUE
- 2. This earth-centered view of the universe was called _____________.
A) GEOCENTRIC THEORY
B) ARISTOTLE'S THEORY
C) HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
D) PTOLEMAIC THEORY
- 3. When scholars replaced old assumptions with new theories, and they launched a change in European thought it is considered __________.
A) FRENCH REVOLUTION
B) NAPOLEONIC ERA
C) ELIGHTENMENT
D) SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
- 4. New way of thinking about the natural world that was based upon careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs.
A) SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
B) NAPOLEONIC ERA
C) ELIGHTENMENT
D) FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 5. The invention of________ during this period helped spread challenging ideas—both old and new— more widely among Europe’s thinkers.
A) THE PRINTING PRESS
B) TYPEWRITERS
C) BOOKS
D) COMPUTERS
E) THE WRITTEN WORD
- 6. Theory that the sun, rather than the earth was at the center of the universe.
A) GEOCENTRIC THEORY
B) HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
C) COPERNICUS'S THEORY
D) PTOLEMAIC THEORY
- 7. He invented the telescope, early thermometers, was the first person to observe the moons of Jupiter, and the first to understand that the Milky Way was a collection of stars.
A) GALILEO GALILEI
B) ARISTOTLE
C) PTOLEMY
D) NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
- 8. __________ is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. It begins with a problem or question arising from an observation. Scientists next form a hypothesis. The hypothesis is then tested in an experiment. In the final step, scientists analyze and interpret their data to reach a new conclusion.
A) THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
B) LAW OF GRAVITY
C) SCIENCE
D) EXPERIMENTING
- 9. According to this law, every object in the universe attracts every other object.
A) LAW OF ATTRACTION
B) LAW OF THE UNIVERSE
C) GALILEO'S LAW
D) LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION
- 10. ________ was an English physicist and mathematician famous for his laws of physics. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.
A) ISAAC NEWTON
B) RENE DESCARTES
C) NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
D) GALILEO GALILEI
- 11. ________ started from some key ideas put forth by two English political thinkers of the 1600s, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
A) THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
B) THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
C) THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
D) THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- 12. To escape a bleak life, people had to hand over their rights to a strong ruler, in exchange, they gained law and order, this agreement by which people created a government is called _________.
A) SOCIAL CONTRACT
B) ENLIGHTENMENT
C) THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
D) NATURAL RIGHTS
- 13. In Hobbes’s view, the best government was _______, which could impose order and demand obedience.
A) AN ABSOLUTE DEMOCRACY
B) A REVOLUTION
C) AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY
D) A DICTATORSHIP
- 14. He believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves. As reasonable beings, they had the natural ability to govern their own affairs and to look after the welfare of society.
A) THOMAS HOBBES
B) VOLTAIRE
C) NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
D) JOHN LOCKE
- 15. According to Locke, all people are born free and equal, with three natural rights— _______.
A) science, math, and astronomy
B) life, liberty, and property
C) wealth, power, and courage
D) love, money, and power
- 16. Young people from around Europe and also from the Americas, came to study, philosophize, and enjoy the culture of this bustling city. The brightest minds of the age gathered there.
A) LONDON
B) ROME
C) MADRID
D) PARIS
- 17. She helped finance the project of a leading philosophe named Denis Diderot. Diderot created a large set of books to which many leading scholars of Europe contributed articles and essays.
A) Marie Antoinette
B) Mary Wollstonecraft
C) Marie Louise
D) Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin
- 18. Diderot created a large set of books to which many leading scholars of Europe contributed articles and essays called _______.
A) Encyclopedia
B) Bible
- 19. The Enlightenment views expressed in the articles were liked by both the French government and the Catholic Church.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
- 20. This and subsequent trade laws prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain.
A) THE NAVIGATION ACT
B) THE STAMP ACT
C) THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
D) THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
- 21. According to this law, colonists had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed material.
A) THE NAVIGATION ACT
B) THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
C) THE STAMP ACT
D) THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
- 22. The colonists, had representation in Parliament. Thus, they agreed to be taxed.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
- 23. In 1775, British governor _______ issued a proclamation that granted freedom to any slave who deserted his master and fought for the British.
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Lord Dunmore
C) Eli Whitney
D) Horatio Nelson
- 24. This idea held that for the republic to survive, it was necessary to have a well-educated citizenry.
A) Republican Motherhood
B) The American Revolution
C) Republican Government
D) Declaration of Independece
- 25. All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are ideas from ________.
A) The Napoleonic Code
B) The Natural Rights
C) The Declaration of Independence
D) The Bill of Rights
- 26. In the 1770s, the social and political system of France, the Old Regime, remained in place. Under this system, the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
A) FALSE
B) TRUE
- 27. __________, formed the First Estate, owned 10 percent of the land in France.
A) BOURGEOISIE
B) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
C) RICH NOBLES
D) ROYALS
- 28. _____ Estate was made up of rich nobles. Although they accounted for just 2 percent of the population, the nobles owned 20 percent of the land and paid almost no taxes.
A) First
B) Second
C) Third
- 29. They were well educated and believed strongly in the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality. Although some were as rich as nobles, they paid high taxes and, lacked privileges.
A) Bourgeoisie
B) Rich Nobles
C) Clergy
D) Monarchs
- 30. ________ formed the largest group within the Third Estate, more than 80 percent of France’s 26 million people.
A) Bourgeoisie
B) Nobles
C) Peasants
D) Urban lower class citizens
- 31. ______ helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.
A) Marie Louise
B) Marie Antoinette
C) Duke of Wellington
D) Louis XVII
E) Joan of Arc
- 32. Marie Antoinette was known for _______.
A) Honesty, humbleness, and fashion trends.
B) Intelligence, respect and nobility.
C) Gambling, partying and extravagant fashions
- 33. Third Estate delegates called, _______, pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
A) French Senate
B) Swiss Guards
C) Bourgeoisie
D) National Assembly
- 34. On July 14, a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the ______, a Paris prison. The mob overwhelmed the guard and seized control of the building.
A) Versailles
B) Notre Dame
C) Bastille
- 35. A wave of senseless panic called _______ rolled through France
A) the Great Fear
B) the French Revolution
C) the Great Depression
D) the Bastille Storm
- 36. This document stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” These rights included “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”
A) The Peace Treaty of Versailles
B) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
C) Declaration of Independence
D) The Napoleonic Code
- 37. Louis XVI and his family safely made it to the Austrian Netherlands, when they neared the border they were allowed to leave peacefully.
A) FALSE
B) TRUE
- 38. Parisians really enjoyed France's use of the guillotine.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
- 39. The use of the guillote became ________ and this made it easier for the contraption to be calibrated.
A) PRIVATE
B) PUBLIC
- 40. During the French Revolution the guillotine was so refined, it could take care of _____ people every thirteen minutes.
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 12
- 41. French commander, who had huge military success and became Emperor of France.
A) Louis XVI
B) Francais Henri
C) Napoleon Bonaparte
D) Duke of Wellington
- 42. The term _______ means blow to the state.
A) invasion
B) coup d’état
C) take over
D) blockade
- 43. Some of the things Napoleon was best known for were the set up of an efficient method of ______ and established a ______.
A) money - political system
B) tax collection - the use of Franks
C) tax collection - national banking system
D) tax collection - the use of the Euro
- 44. Napoleon established _______, which were available for all men regardless of their background and could grant them prosperous job opportunities.
A) centres
B) musées
C) églises
D) lycées
- 45. This gave the country a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices.
A) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
B) The Bill of Rights
C) Napoleonic Code
D) The Declaration of Independence
- 46. _________, was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
A) The French Purchase
B) Oklahoma Territory
C) Louisiana Purchase
D) The French West Indies
- 47. Series of wars between Napoleonic France and shifting alliances of other European powers that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe.
A) The Peninsula War
B) The French Revolution
C) Napoleonic Wars
D) The Battle of Trafalgar
- 48. _______ ensured the supremacy of the British navy for the next 100 years and forced Napoleon to give up his plans of invading Britain.
A) Horatio Nelson
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Duke of Wellington
D) Lord Dunmore
E) Louis XVI
- 49. Policy to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations.
A) THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
B) THE STAMP ACT
C) THE NAVIGATION ACT
D) THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
- 50. bands of Spanish peasant fighters that struck at French armies in Spain.
A) GUERRILLAS
B) SPANIARDS
C) ROYALS
D) BOURGEOISIE
- 51. A series of meetings, known as ________, were called to set up policies to achieve security and stability.
A) The Napoleonic Era
B) The French Revolution
C) The Holy Alliance
D) Congress of Vienna
- 52. Which of the following is NOT one of Metternich's goals?
A) he wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding France with strong countries.
B) he wanted to restore Europe’s royal families to the thrones they had held before Napoleon’s conquests.
C) he wanted to restore a balance of power, so that every country would be a threat to others.
- 53. The participants in the Congress of Vienna believed that the return of the former monarchs wouldn't stabilize political relations among the nations.
A) FALSE
B) TRUE
- 54. Prussia and Austria pledged to base their relations with other nations on Christian principles in order to combat the forces of revolution in _______.
A) the Congress of Vienna
B) the Holy Alliance
C) the Social Contracy
D) the Continental System
- 55. Who spread the rumor that Napoleon Bonaparte was short when he was 1.69m tall?
A) French
B) Russians
C) Prussians
D) Americans
E) British
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