COMPLETION
1. The highest executive office of the Dutch republic. ______________________
2. Louis XIV's able minister of finance. ____________________________________
3. During the age of economic growth in Spain, a vast number of Spaniards
entered/left religious orders.
4. For Louis XIV of France the War of the Spanish Succession was a
success/disaster.
5. The Englishman who inflicted defeat on Louis XIV at Blenheim. ____________
6. The archbishop whose goal was to enforce Anglican unity in England
and
Scotland. _________________
7. He made the statement "From where do the merchant's profits come
except
from his own diligence and industry." ____________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Mercantilism
a. was a military system.
b. insisted on a favorable balance of trade.
c. was adopted in England but not in France.
d. claimed that state power was based on land armies.
2. French Protestants tended to be
a. poor peasants.
b. the power behind the throne of Louis XIV.
c. a financial burden for France.
d. clever business people.
3. The War of the Spanish Succession began when Charles II of Spain
left his
territories to
a. the French heir.
b. the Spanish heir.
c. Eugene of Savoy.
d. the archduke of Austria.
4. Which of the following cities was the commercial and financial capital
of
Europe in the seventeenth century?
a. London b. Hamburg c. Paris d. Amsterdam
5. Of the following, the country most centered on middle-class interests was
a. England. b. Spain. c. France. d. the Netherlands.
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6. Which of the following Englishmen was a Catholic?
a. James II
c. Archbishop Laud
b. Oliver Cromwell
d. William III
7. Which of the following is a characteristic of an absolute state?
a. Sovereignty embodied in the representative assembly
b. Bureaucracies solely accountable to the middle
classes
c. A strong voice expressed by the nobility
d. Permanent standing armies
8. Cardinal Richelieu's most notable accomplishment was
a. the creation of a strong financial system for
France.
b. the creation of a highly effective administrative
system.
c. winning the total support of the Huguenots.
d. allying the Catholic church with the government.
9. The statement "There are no privileges and immunities which can stand
against a divinely appointed king" forms the basis
of the
a. Stuart notion of absolutism.
b. Stuart notion of constitutionalism.
c. English Parliament's notion of democracy.
d. English Parliament's notion of constitutionalism.
10. The English Long Parliament
a. enacted legislation supporting absolutism.
b. supported the Catholic tendencies of Charles
I.
c. supported Charles I as a military leader.
d. enacted legislation against absolutism.
11. Cromwell's government is best described as a
a. constitutional state.
c. military dictatorship.
b. democratic state.
d. monarchy.
12. Absolute monarchs secured mastery over the nobility by all of the
following except
a. the creation of a standing army.
b. the creation of a state bureaucracy.
c. coercive actions.
d. regulating religious groups.
13. Cardinal Richelieu consolidated the power of the French monarchy
by doing
all of the following except
a. destroying the castles of the nobility.
b. ruthlessly treating conspirators who threatened
the monarchy.
c. keeping nobles from gaining high government offices.
d. eliminating the intendant system of local government.
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14. One way in which Louis XIV controlled the French nobility was by
a. maintaining standing armies in the countryside
to crush noble
uprisings.
b. requiring the presence of the major noble families
at Versailles for
at least part of the year.
c. periodically visiting the nobility in order to
check on their
activities.
d. forcing them to participate in a parliamentary
assembly.
15. The French army under Louis XIV
a. had no standardized uniforms and weapons.
b. lived off the countryside.
c. had an ambulance corps to care for the troops.
d. had no system for recruitment, training, or promotion.
16. The Peace of Utrecht in 1713
a. shrunk the size of the British Empire significantly.
b. represented the balance-of-power principle in
action.
c. enhanced Spain's position as a major power in
Europe.
d. marked the beginning of French expansionist policy.
17. The downfall of Spain in the seventeenth century can be blamed on
a. weak and ineffective monarchs.
b. an overexpansion of industry and trade.
c. the growth of slave labor in America.
d. the rise of a large middle class.
18. When Archbishop Laud tried to make the Presbyterian Scots accept
the
Anglican Book of Common Prayer, the Scots
a. revolted.
b. reluctantly accepted the archbishop's directive.
c. ignored the directive.
d. heartily adopted the new prayerbook.
19. Who among the following was a proponent of the idea that the purpose
of
government is to protect life, liberty, and
property?
a. Thomas Hobbes b. William of Orange c. John Locke d. Edmund Burke
20. After the United Provinces of the Netherlands won independence from
Spain, their government could best be described
as
a. a strong monarchy.
b. a centralized parliamentary system.
c. a weak union of strong provinces.
d. a democracy.
21. The Dutch economy was based on
a. fishing, world trade, and banking.
b. silver mining in Peru.
c. export of textiles.
d. a moral and religious disdain of wealth.
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22. Dutch economic decline began with
a. the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
b. the formation of the Dutch East India Company.
c. its practice of religious toleration.
d. the adoption of the ideas of John Calvin.
23. During the administration of Robert Walpole in Britain, the idea
developed that
a. the monarch was absolute.
b. the cabinet should be replaced by a legislative
parliament.
c. the king's chief minister be known as the stadholder.
d. the cabinet be responsible to the House of Commons.
24. The Amstel River was the major link between which of the following
cities
and its world trading system?
a. London b. Amsterdam c. Paris d. Amiens
25. Which of the following is a book by Cervantes that has as its hero
an
i dealistic but impractical soldier?
a. Don Quixote b. Tartuffe c. Te Deum d. Phedre