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Common Assessment Review 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General in 1789, which estate wanted to set up a constitutional government?

a)

First Estate

b)

Second Estate

c)

Third Estate

d)

Fourth Estate

2.

What was Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought?

a)

Deism

b)

Laissez-Faire

c)

Checks of Balances

d)

Encyclopedia

3.

What was the goal of Napoleon's Continental System?

a)

Codify laws throughout Europe

b)

Cut off trade between Britain and Europe

c)

Conquer Russia

d)

Create a strong, centralized bureaucracy in Europe

4.

Which belief states that people should be as free as possible from government restraints?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Monoculturalism

c)

Industrial capitalism

d)

Liberalism

5.

the most important invention of the the Industrial Rev

a)

Wheel

b)

Flying shuttle

c)

Spinning Jenny

d)

Steam Engine

6.

Where was Napoleon defeated for the final time?

a)

Waterloo in Belgium

b)

Annecy in France

c)

Moscow in Russia

d)

Leipzig in Germany

7.

the time period where new free thought was flowing on how people should be governed

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Enlightenment

d)

French Revolution

8.

John Locke argued that the natural rights of people

a)

exist only in the state of nature

b)

can only be taken away by an absolute monarch

c)

are forfeited when they enter into a contract with government

d)

exist apart from any government

9.

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

a)

United States

b)

Italy

c)

Britain

d)

Spain

10.

Monarchs who govern by Enlightenment ideas were ruling with

a)

Enlightened absolutism

b)

Social Contract law

c)

Separation of powers

d)

Deism

11.

Diderot was imprisoned for

a)

advocating pacifism

b)

mocking the Church

c)

the publication of Encyclopedia

d)

dissecting human corpses

12.

Who believed that humans were naturally wicked and greedy and that government must establish order?

a)

Thomas Hobbes

b)

Voltaire

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

d)

John Locke

13.

Napoleon gained power through a

a)

Coup d'etat

b)

Sans-culottes

c)

Committee of Public Safety

d)

Estates General

14.

The attack on a Paris prison in 1789 by enraged French citizens was called

a)

the Tennis Court Oath

b)

the March on Versailles

c)

The Concert of Europe

d)

the Storming of the Bastille

15.

Copernicus proposed that

a)

the planets move in oval paths

b)

the sun is the center of the universe

c)

all matter is made up of four elements

d)

the force of gravity prevents objects from flying off the earth