SGO Review World

Which solution would Baron de Montesquieu offer to avoid the enactment of tyrannical laws?

• Granting freedom of speech

• Reinstating absolute monarchies

• Separating the branches of government

• 
  Limiting natural laws

Read the passage and answer questions 1 and 2.

          "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates [government officials], there can be no liberty; because apprehensions [fears] may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner..."
                                                                         ---Baron de Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws


What form of government is Montesquieu referring to in the description?

• 
  Dictatorship

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Republic

• 
  Aristocracy

Read the passage and answer the question.

"All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and accordingly, as each has been created for one or the other of these ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or death..."

This statement reflects the fundamental beliefs of:

• 
  Thomas Hobbes

• 
  John Calvin

• Martin Luther

• 
  Ulrich Zwingli

Read the quote and answer the question.

". . . Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. . . ."

-Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789

Which principle of the Enlightenment philosophers is expressed in this quotation from the French Revolution?

• Natural Law

• Nationalism

• 
  Free Trade

• 
  Socialism

Read the quote and answer the question.

"I will never allow my hands to be idle nor my soul to rest until I have broken the chains laid upon us by Spain."

This statement was most likely made by

• 
  a Latin American nationalist

• 
  a Portuguese explorer

• a Roman Catholic bishop

• a Spanish conquistador

What historical event is depicted in the cartoon?

• Russo-Japanese War

• 
  Chinese Spheres of Influence

• 
  Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi

• 
  Formation of the Triple Alliance

What do the flags in the image of Simon Bolivar represent?

• 
  His vision of a united South America, Gran Columbia

• The European countries where he received his education

• 
  His rebellion against the Spanish governments′ dominance in Latin America

• The nations of South America that he led to independence

Read the poem and answer the question.

Take up the White Man′s burden-
Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives′ need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

--Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man′s Burden"

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Kipling′s poem seems to indicate that:

• 
  Europeans have a responsibility to civilize other peoples

• 
  Imperialism meant hard work and money

• Service to one′s country was a patriotic duty

• Democracy must be established worldwide

As a result of World War I, which three empires lost territory?

• 
  Spain, Germany, Austria-Hungary

• Sweden, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman

• Norway, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman

• Austria-Hungary, Germany, and The Ottoman

Use the cartoon to answer questions 10 and 11.
 

You should hope that this game will
be over soon. The Third Estate carrying the
Clergy and the Nobility on its back (1789)

What historic time period is depicted in this cartoon?

• 
  French & Indian War

• 
  Protestant Reformation

• 
  French Revolution

• 
  The Long March