Age of Absolutism Test Draft

From the 15th to 18th centuries, absolute monarchs of Europe and Asia sought to

• Increase the power of the Catholic Church

• Centralize their political power

• Redistribute land to peasants

• Strengthen feudalism

Many European monarchs of the 1600s maintained that they should have absolute power to rule because they

• Had been given their power to govern from God

• Needed to defend their nations against threats from the Western Hemisphere

• Thought that all people should have the right to a good ruler

• Thought that communism was the superior political system

The theory justifying a monarch’s rule by God’s authority is called

• Laissez faire

• Totalitarianism

• Divine Right

• Predestination

Which philosophy of government is expressed by this quotation?

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Fascism

• Divine Right

5. True or False: King Alaric is an absolute monarch

• True

• False

True or False: Queen Isabella is an absolute monarch

• True

• False

True or False: Prince Darius of Avalora is an absolute monarch

• True

• False

True or False: Emperor Magnus of Tyrenia is an absolute monarch

• True

• False

True or False: Tsarina Katarina is an absolute monarch

• True

• False

Louis the 14th and Peter the Great would most likely agree with the expression:

• Government should leave businesses alone

• Countries should settle differences without war

• Do not question government authority

• All men are created with natural rights