WorksheetsThe Age of Absolutism
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does Absolute Ruler mean?
a)
a ruler who is sure of their power
b)
A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
c)
someone who has to answer to a separate government body
d)
a ruler who is absolute
2.
What was the event that started the 30 years war
a)
Charles V leaving his throne in Spain
b)
The defeat of the Spanish Armada
c)
The Defenestration of Prague
d)
The English Civil War
3.
As Spain's absolute ruler, what as Philip II's goal?
a)
To defeat the English at all costs
b)
To take control over all of Europe
c)
To advance the Golden Age of Spain
d)
To advance Spanish Catholic power
4.
What is divine right?
a)
The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
b)
a Birth right
c)
soldiers for hire
d)
a monarch for hire
5.
Who were the German Princes who chose the Holy Roman Empire?
a)
Huguenots
b)
Dissenters
c)
Electors
d)
intendants
6.
English protestants who differed with the Church were:
a)
Cabinet
b)
Partition
c)
Dissenters
d)
Boyers
7.
What did the Edict of Nantes help to ensure?
a)
That France and Spain would not unite
b)
that Germans could choose their own religion
c)
that French Catholics would not be persecuted
d)
That French Protestants would not be persecuted
8.
What Happened when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nates and the Huguenots left?
a)
the army was weakened
b)
the French economy was weakened
c)
the power base of Henry IV was destroyed
d)
the French bureaucracy was damaged
9.
Huguenots is a ..
a)
Spanish Catholic
b)
A French Catholic
c)
an English Protestant
d)
a French Protestant
10.
what was the major cause of conflict within the empire of Charles V (Spain/Holy Roman Empire)?
a)
Charles suppressed Protestantism in the German States
b)
Charles fought his brother in a series of religious wars
c)
Saxon invaded France and tried to occupy Paris
d)
Ottoman forces overran much of Southern France
11.
Under the rule of Philip II, which of these events helped to increase Spanish power?
a)
The Muslims were expelled from Spain
b)
The Huguenots were expelled from Spain
c)
The Ottomans were defeated at Lepanto
d)
The Protestants were defeated in the Netherlands
12.
Landowning Russian Nobles under Peter the Great were known as
a)
Dissenters
b)
El Greco
c)
Electors
d)
Boyers
13.
Royal officials who carried out the policies of Louis XIV were called
a)
Cabinet
b)
Intendants
c)
Boyers
d)
Mercenaries
14.
High Ranking government Leaders who advise the head of state are known as
a)
Huguenots
b)
Partition
c)
Dissenters
d)
Cabinet
15.
Catherine the Great extend Russian borders through
a)
The Partition of Poland
b)
Fighting a war with the Ottomans
c)
Controlling most of Euopre
d)
Combining the German and Russian empire
16.
Peter the Great waged war against the Ottoman empire to
a)
gain a warm water port on the Black Sea
b)
break the siege of Vienna
c)
Capture Constantinople
d)
Extend Russian borders
17.
Puritans sought to
a)
leave England
b)
change Catholic practices in the Church of England
c)
overthrow the King
d)
Create their own religion
18.
Why did Louis XIV appoint royal officials from the middle class to his bureaucracy?
a)
to help him govern France
b)
to participate in the rising (Levee) ritual
c)
to help support the arts
d)
To keep the nobles and Church in check
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