AP Euro Unit 3/4 (Kinda Pop) Quiz

Which of the following cities dominated European trade and finance in the early seventeenth century?

• Venice
• Paris
• London
• Amsterdam
• Madrid

The quotation 'The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have a right to concur either personally or by their representatives in its formation. The law should be the same for all, whether it protects or whether it punishes.' is a formulation of the ideas of which philosopher?

• Frederick the Great
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Adam Smith
• Condorcet
• Voltaire

Which of the following is an accurate characterization of England in the period 1688-1715?

• A Puritan theocracy
• An absolute monarchy
• A democracy practicing religious toleration
• A merchant republic increasingly under Dutch dominance
• A constitutional monarchy controlled by an aristocratic oligarchy

The features of seventeenth-century Dutch life reflected in the painting 'Beware of Luxury' by Dutch painter Jan Steen were largely a result of which of the following?

• Dutch territorial gains in the Thirty Years' War
• Dutch financial innovation and overseas trade
• The accession of a member of the Dutch House of Orange to the throne of England
• The successful raids of Dutch privateers against Spanish treasure fleets

The painting 'Beware of Luxury' by Jan Steen reflects which of the following conflicts?

• Urban wealth versus rural poverty
• Catholic extravagance versus Protestant austerity
• French sophistication versus Dutch simplicity

The French Fronde is best described as the

• first government formed after the French Revolution
• civil war fought between Roman Catholics and Protestants
• revolt over increasing centralization of royal power
• wars between France and the Holy Roman Empire
• style of architecture developed under Louis XIV

A controversial aspect of the Agricultural Revolution in eighteenth-century England was the transformation of common land into private land through the process known as

• enclosure
• puddling
• asiento
• crop rotation
• syndication

The system of intendants was established in seventeenth-century France primarily to

• empower the French nobility
• implement royal policies locally
• make the peasantry return to the land
• collect taxes from the towns
• improve France's ability to fight foreign wars

Which of the following represents the final defeat of efforts by the Ottoman Empire to acquire large areas of central Europe?

• The battle of Poltava (1709)
• The battle of Lepanto (1571)
• The battle of Nördlingen (1634)
• The siege of Vienna (1683)
• The fall of Constantinople (1453)

Historians attribute the 'population explosion' of the eighteenth century primarily to

• the elimination of childhood diseases
• a more abundant food supply
• the widespread introduction of piped water and sewers
• the eradication of childbirth fever
• new sanitary procedures in hospitals