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AGE OF ABSOLUTISM

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Louis XIV was known by what name?

a)

The Sun King

b)

The Moon King

c)

King of all Europe

d)

King of the Franks

2.

Who was the English queen who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?

a)

Queen Mary

b)

Queen Anne

c)

Queen Elizabeth I

d)

Queen Catherine III

3.

Oliver Cromwell created what type of government after the English Civil War?

a)

Democracy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Commonwealth

d)

Oligarchy

4.

Which czar modernized Russia by building a navy and adopting western customs?

a)

Ivan the Terrible

b)

Igor the Proud

c)

Nicholas IV

d)

Peter the Great

5.

What was the divine right of kings?

a)

Kings were descended from God.

b)

Kings were the head of the church.

c)

Kings received their authority from God alone.

d)

Only kings were able to decide what people believed.

6.

What did King Louis XIV build that became a symbol of French wealth, power and cultural influence?

a)

The Palace of Versailles

b)

The Eiffel Tower

c)

The Louvre

d)

The French Armada

7.

What is the event when William & Mary of Orange took the English throne from James II without violence?

a)

The English Civil War

b)

The Thirty Years' War

c)

The Battle of Hastings

d)

The Glorious Revolution

8.

What country did Louis XIV lead?

a)

France

b)

Prussia

c)

Austria

d)

Spain

9.

What country did Philip II lead?

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Prussia

d)

Russia

10.

Absolutism refers to WHICH of the following governmental ideologies?

a)

Constitutional Monarchy

b)

Absolute Monarchy

c)

Absolute Democracy

d)

Absolute Dictatorship

11.

The English Civil War represented a struggle between which of the following?

a)

Redcoats vs. Bluecoats

b)

Cavaliers vs Roundheads

c)

Royalists vs Redcoats

d)

Cavaliers vs Bluecoats

12.

Who was the English queen who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?

a)

Queen Mary

b)

Queen Anne

c)

Queen Elizabeth I

d)

Queen Catherine III

13.

Which ruling family from Scotland struggled to cooperate with Parliament and was widely disliked by Puritans?

a)

Tudors

b)

Cavaliers

c)

Stuarts

d)

Levellers

14.

The English Bill of Rights was successful in which of the following?

a)

created a constitutional monarchy.

b)

resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

c)

reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

d)

confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

15.

What English governing body placed limits on the power of the monarchs?

a)

The Church

b)

Parliament

c)

Universities

d)

Foreign governments