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7F|10-13

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The islands of Oceania are classified into three groups. One group is called Micronesia. Name one of the other two groups. (Name only one other group, and use only one word)

(a)  

2.

Which sea captain from Europe became the most famous explorer of the Pacific?

a)

Abel Tasman

b)

James Cook

c)

John Paton

d)

James Chalmers

3.

Australia is almost the same size as:

a)

Cambodia

b)

Western Europe

c)

The USA

d)

Russia

4.

The First Fleet left England in May of 1787 and sailed to New South Wales. Of the more than one thousand people on these ships, over eight hundred were:

a)

women and children

b)

slaves

c)

convicts

d)

black

5.

Between 1405 and 1433 the Ming emperors of China sponsored seven naval expeditions. Who was the admiral of this fleet?

(a)  

6.

After the Ottoman Empire emerged from internal strife under Mehmet II (r. 1451-81), the goal became the conquest of:

a)

Rome

b)

Paris

c)

Constantinople

d)

Athens

7.

The Ottoman threat finally ended in 1683 when the European forces were able to repel the Ottoman attack on:

a)

Vienna

b)

Tours

c)

Paris

d)

Warsaw

8.

Which three of the following religions were tolerated in the Ottoman Empire:

a)

Polytheism

b)

Islam

c)

Christianity

d)

Judaism

9.

Which dynasty did Shah Ismail I establish?

a)

Ming dynasty

b)

Yuan dynasty

c)

Safavid dynasty

d)

Moghul dynasty

10.

The Safavid Dynasty laid the foundations for which modern-day state?

a)

Palestine

b)

Turkey

c)

Iran

d)

Afghanistan

11.

Which English company was formed to develop trade with the East Indies?

a)

Amazon

b)

The Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie

c)

ASEAN

d)

The British East India Company

12.

A flood of literature from Voltaire and other Enlightenment philosophers inspired the French to demand:

(mark all that apply)

a)

equality

b)

civil liberties

c)

religious freedom

d)

divine rule

13.

In the eighteenth century, the great majority of French people were confined to:

a)

rural areas

b)

urban areas

c)

the Third Estate

d)

ghettos

14.

The political and financial collapse in France in the eighteenth century occurred during the reign of:

a)

Napoleon

b)

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

c)

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

d)

William of Orange and his wife Mary

15.

On 14 July 1789 a crowd stormed the fortress-prison in Paris and killed those assigned to guard it. What was the name of this fortress?

a)

Louvre

b)

Versailles

c)

Arc de Triomph

d)

Bastille

16.

The Committee of Public Safety gained absolute authority in France and instituted a period of mass execution known as:

a)

Black September

b)

the Reign of Terror

c)

Operation Barbarossa

d)

the Pandemic

17.

Who took advantage of the chaos in France and used his power to take control of the government?

a)

Charles de Gaulle

b)

Alberto Mussolini

c)

Napoleon Bonaparte

d)

Louis XIV

18.

On June 18, 1815, the armies of Prussia and Britain confronted Napoleon and his forces in modern Belgium at:

a)

Waterloo

b)

Epstein

c)

Tours

d)

Vienna

19.

Which two of the following countries gained their independence before WWI?

a)

Belgium

b)

Greece

c)

Poland

d)

Hungary

20.

Initial progress toward German unification resulted from an economic union called the:

a)

European Union

b)

Zollverein

c)

Sudentelande

d)

Berlin Blockade

21.

In 1862, King Wilhelm I appointed Count Otto von Bismarck as the chancellor of:

a)

Germany

b)

Prussia

c)

Belarus

d)

Russia

22.

When Germany was unified, who was declared ruler of the German Reich?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Kaiser Wilhelm I

c)

Count Dracula

d)

Herr Schindler

23.

Giuseppe Mazzini, Count Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi worked to unify:

a)

The Ottoman Empire

b)

Sicily

c)

Hungary

d)

Italy

24.

Around the 18th century. farmers developed new methods that resulted in an increased food supply. In which country did this agricultural change first occur?

a)

America

b)

Britain

c)

France

d)

Belgium

25.

The changes in manufacturing were so great during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the period was called:

a)

the Industrial Revulsion

b)

the Great Leap Forward

c)

the Machine Age

d)

the Industrial Revolution

26.

What provided consistent and reliable power for the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Horses

b)

Steam engines

c)

Slaves

d)

Solar power

27.

Men who developed businesses and sold their inventions were known as:

a)

entrepreneurs

b)

crazy

c)

the elite

d)

politicians

28.

What is "urbanization"?

a)

the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities

b)

building cities

c)

planning town and city layouts

d)

providing services to people in towns and cities