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Chapter 5

European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

1. The seven provinces that became the United Provinces of the Netherlands emerged as a nation in 1572 after revolting against ________.

A. France

B. Spain

C. England

D. Germany

B. Spain

2. What government was able to build a

strong monarchy with a secure financial

base that was not dependent on noble

estates, diets, or assemblies?

A. political absolutism embodied in France

B. political absolutism embodied in England

C. parliamentary monarchy embodied in the

Netherlands

D. parliamentary monarchy embodied in

England

A. political absolutism embodied in France

3. The Militia Ordinance gave English

Parliament the power to ________.

A. raise its own army

B. raise or lower taxes

C. dissolve the monarchy

D. house soldiers in the homes of the

citizens

A. raise its own army

4. Who were the supporters of Charles I and

Parliament in the English Civil War?

A. the Roundheads and the Cavaliers

respectively

B. the Cavaliers and the Roundheads

respectively

C. the Puritans and Anglicans respectively

D. the Reds and the Whites respectively

B. the Cavaliers and the Roundheads

respectively

5. After Cromwell's death, the English were

soon ready to restore ________.

A. the monarchy and the Anglican Church

B. the Presbyterian Church and diplomatic

relations with Spain

C. the monarchy and diplomatic relations

with Spain

D. diplomatic relations with Spain and

Parliament

A. the monarchy and the Anglican Church

6. According to advocates of the "divine

right of kings," kings could be judged

only by ________.

A. God

B. the nobility

C. the people

D. fellow kings

A. God

7. King Louis XIV made life difficult for

________.

A. royal officials

B. Huguenots

C. military leaders

D. Catholics

B. Huguenots

8. The organization that formed to resist the

military aggression of Louis XIV was the

________.

A. the Catholic League

B. Peace of Ryswick

C. League of Augsburg

D. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

C. League of Augsburg

9. John Locke argues against absolute

monarchy in his ________.

A. Politics Drawn from the Very Words of

Holy Scripture

B. Second Treatise of Civil Government

C. Common Sense

D. A Counterblast to Tobacco

B. Second Treatise of Civil Government

10. The document authorizing succession of

the Habsburg crown through the female

heir, Maria Theresa, was the ________.

A. Pragmatic Sanction

B. Treaty of Nijmwegen

C. Peace of Ryswick

D. Crown of Saint Stephen

A. Pragmatic Sanction

11. Under the rule of Peter the Great,

Russia's boyars ________.

A. gained power

B. became the primary agents of

modernization

C. lost much of their power

D. were exiled to Siberia

C. lost much of their power

12. St. Petersburg ________.

A. was built on the Gulf of Sweden

B. exemplified Russia's new orientation to

the West

C. was completed in 1709 but not inhabited

until Russia defeated Sweden

D. was given that name by Lenin after the

1917 Russian Revolution

B. exemplified Russia's new orientation to

the West

13. Michael Romanov was the ________.

A. heir to the throne after the death of Peter

the Great

B. founder of St. Petersburg

C. son of Ivan the Terrible

D. first of the Romanov dynasty to rule

Russia

D. first of the Romanov dynasty to rule