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WorksheetsAGE OF ABSOLUTISM
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Louis XIV was known by what name?
The Sun King
The Moon King
King of all Europe
King of the Franks
Who was the English queen who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Queen Mary
Queen Anne
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Catherine III
Oliver Cromwell created what type of government after the English Civil War?
Democracy
Monarchy
Commonwealth
Oligarchy
Which czar modernized Russia by building a navy and adopting western customs?
Ivan the Terrible
Igor the Proud
Nicholas IV
Peter the Great
What was the divine right of kings?
Kings were descended from God.
Kings were the head of the church.
Kings received their authority from God alone.
Only kings were able to decide what people believed.
What did King Louis XIV build that became a symbol of French wealth, power and cultural influence?
The Palace of Versailles
The Eiffel Tower
The Louvre
The French Armada
What is the event when William & Mary of Orange took the English throne from James II without violence?
The English Civil War
The Thirty Years' War
The Battle of Hastings
The Glorious Revolution
What country did Louis XIV lead?
France
Prussia
Austria
Spain
What country did Philip II lead?
Spain
France
Prussia
Russia
Absolutism refers to WHICH of the following governmental ideologies?
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Absolute Democracy
Absolute Dictatorship
The English Civil War represented a struggle between which of the following?
Redcoats vs. Bluecoats
Cavaliers vs Roundheads
Royalists vs Redcoats
Cavaliers vs Bluecoats
Who was the English queen who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Queen Mary
Queen Anne
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Catherine III
Which ruling family from Scotland struggled to cooperate with Parliament and was widely disliked by Puritans?
Tudors
Cavaliers
Stuarts
Levellers
The English Bill of Rights was successful in which of the following?
created a constitutional monarchy.
resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.
reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.
confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.
What English governing body placed limits on the power of the monarchs?
The Church
Parliament
Universities
Foreign governments
