HS World History Test Ch 14 and 15

The leading absolutist nation in Europe during the seventeenth century was which of the following?

• Austria

• England

• France

• Prussia

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Oliver Cromwell took the title of

• King of England

• Model General

• Commonwealth Ruler

• Lord Protector

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The English kings were limited in power by the

• Parliament’s control of revenue.

• Estates-General’s control of revenue.

• nobles’ control of the army.

• Parliament’s control of the army.

What group in France did Richelieu view as a danger to the state?

• Roundheads

• Huguenots

• merchants

• Catholics

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century kings increased their royal power by doing all the following except

• maintaining the size of the army.

• exerting control over the church.

• increasing the size of government bureaucracy.

• increasing the size of their territory.

Louis XIII’s powerful chief minister was

• A. Adolphus

• B. Colbert

• C. Mazarin

• D. Richelieu

In his quest for absolute power, which of the following did Louis XIV not accomplish?

• He appointed Jean-Baptiste Colbert as minister of finance.

• He placed lieutenant colonels over French regiments.

• He issued the Edict of Nantes.

• He built the palace of Versailles.

Robert Walpole is considered the first what in British history?

• king

• duke of York

• prime minister

• knight

The strongest German state was

• Bavaria.

• Brandenburg-Prussia.

• Saxony.

• Westphalia.

Which treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War?

• A. Aix-la-Chapelle

• B. Paris

• C. Utrecht

• D. Westphalia