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

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