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Absolutism and the Enlightenment

Authored by Nancy Thomas

History

9th Grade

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Absolutism and the Enlightenment
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is divine right?

The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
a Birth right
soldiers for hire
a monarch for hire

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was Louis XIV?

This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The English Bill of Rights

created a constitutional monarchy.

resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Absolutism means

the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Known as the Sun King and the ruler of France. Was the perfect example of an absolute monarch.

King James II

King Phillip

Louis XIV

Louis XXI

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a political theory that absolute power should be vested in the ruler

Divine Right

Absolutism

Versailles

Renaissance

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The English Bill of Rights was meant to..

protect the rights of a leader so they can't be beheaded

protect the rights of the parliament from the King or Queen

protect the rights of the people from the King or Queen

protect the rights of the people and the King but not a Queen

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