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Question #1
Charles I frequently clashed with what group?
A.   The House of Commons
B.   The Church of England
C.   The Stuart family
D.   Catholics throughout England
Question #2
What was an important aspect of Peter the Great's tour of western Europe?
A.   He decided he would model his rule after the French example.
B.   He was particularly impressed by the power of the Dutch and English.
C.   He employed spies to steal industrial technology.
D.   He began to focus mostly on introducing capitalism into Russia.
Question #3
In the early seventeenth century, what reforms did the English Puritans desire?
A.   They wanted all people to be required to attend the Church of England.
B.   They wanted to be granted special tax exemptions by the Crown.
C.   They sought a resurgence of Roman Catholicism.
D.   They wanted to eliminate Crown-appointed bishops from the Church of England.
Question #4
In the seventeenth century, serfdom returned to what region of Europe?
A.   The Low Countries
B.   Eastern
C.   Central
D.   Western
Question #5
Which order of nuns (founded in the sixteenth century) attained prestige in education for women?
A.   Ursulines
B.   Mericis
C.   Jesuits
D.   Trentines
Question #6
Who held the political power in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century?
A.   A democratically elected States-General
B.   The central government
C.   An oligarchy of wealthy businessmen
D.   The stadholder and his royal courtiers
Question #7
Which of these was a member of the Grand Alliance of 1701?
A.   Prussia
B.   Russia
C.   Spain
D.   France
Question #8
How did the climate change in Europe during the seventeenth century?
A.   It became colder and drier.
B.   It became warmer and drier.
C.   It became warmer and wetter.
D.   It became colder and wetter.
Question #9
In 1649, after the execution of Charles I, England was initially declared which of the following?
A.   A commonwealth
B.   A military dictatorship
C.   A theocracy
D.   A democracy
Question #10
What country did Peter the Great defeat at the Battle of Poltava?
A.   Austria
B.   Latvia
C.   Poland
D.   Sweden
Question #11
Voltaire thought that ordinary men
A.   needed to be educated for democracy to work.
B.   should overthrow the French monarchy.
C.   needed to study England's social system.
D.   were incapable of governing themselves.
Question #12
Which of the following did empiricism emphasize?
A.   Acquiring evidence through observation and experimentation
B.   The use of deductive reasoning
C.   Proof through mathematical equations
D.   Reliance on the authority of other scientists
Question #13
Who was tried for heresy in 1633 for defending Copernicus and the heliocentric theory?
A.   Newton
B.   Kepler
C.   Brahe
D.   Galileo
Question #14
Which Enlightenment thinker argued in favor of separating and sharing political power?
A.   Voltaire
B.   Madame du Châtelet
C.   Baron de Montesquieu
D.   John Locke
Question #15
What was Frederick the Great's attitude toward religion?
A.   He objected to private prayer.
B.   He promoted Lutheranism.
C.   He was tolerant of individual beliefs.
D.   He persecuted Jews.
Question #16
Which of these was Montesquieu's most famous work?
A.   The Spirit of the Laws
B.   The Encyclopedia
C.   Principia
D.   Candide
Question #17
Which enlightened ruler abolished serfdom?
A.   Frederick II
B.   Joseph II
C.   Maria Theresa
D.   Louis XIV

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