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The fall of an empire

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who ruled in the 1600s in Spain?

a)

Felipe III

b)

Felipe IV

c)

Carlos II

d)

All of them

2.

Who ruled in the 1700s in Spain?

a)

Felipe V

b)

Felipe V and Fernando VI

c)

Fernando Vi

d)

None of them

3.

Who was a king twice?

a)

Fernando VI

b)

Felipe V

c)

Felipe III

d)

Carlos II

4.

Which monarch died with no heird?

a)

Felipe III

b)

Felipe IV

c)

Carlos II

d)

Felipe II

5.

Who wrote the poem A una nariz?

a)

Cervantes

b)

Góngora

c)

Quevedo

d)

Velázquez

6.

Who were important artists in the Spanish Golden Age?

a)

Cervantes, Quevedo, El Greco, Velázquez

b)

Cervantes, Quevedo, Baltasar Gracián, Lope de Vega

c)

Cervantes, Baltasar Gracián,Zurbarán, Murillo

d)

All the answers are correct

7.

During the reing of Felipe III ...

a)

There was widespread famine

b)

The Moriscos were expelled from Spain

c)

Duque de Lerma controlled the country and Spain was bankrupt

d)

All the options are true

8.

Conde-Duque de Olivares was the valido of ....

a)

Felipe III

b)

Felipe IV

c)

Carlos II

9.

The war of the Spanish Succession was caused because ...

a)

Felipe Bourbon was a Habsburg

b)

Felipe Bourbon had to sign the Treaty of Utrecht

c)

Carlos II name as successor his nearest relative, Felipe Bourbon and his Habsburg relatives were unhappy and declared the war

10.

Felipe V established a system of ...

a)

absolute monarchy

b)

absolute democracy

11.

Fernando VI organised the Gran Redada to ..

a)

expel Muslims from Spain

b)

expel gypsies from Spain

12.

Jorge Juan y Santacilia discovered ...

a)

The Earth was perfectly round

b)

The Earth was flattened at the poles

13.

The process Jorge Juan used was called ...

a)

triangulation

b)

rotation

c)

quadrant

14.

During the rule of Carlos III ...

a)

Madrid was cleaned and transformed

b)

He ordered the building of sewage systems, street lightning and pavement

c)

He was responsible of Palacio Real´s decoration

d)

All the answers are correct

15.

Sabatini built the Puerta de Alcalá in 1778

a)

False

b)

True

16.

Carlos III order the construction of a centre for scientific investigation that consisted of ...

a)

Natural History Museum and El Prado

b)

Natural History Museum, Botanical Gardens and an Observatory