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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who did Russia's Peter the Great name as his successor?

a)

His son, Alexa

b)

His wife, Catherine

c)

His brother, Ivan IV

d)

No one

2.

Arrogant French king who said, "I am the state!"

a)

Charles |

b)

Louis XIV

c)

Henry II

d)

Louis X

3.

Peter the Great fought the Ottoman Turks to

a)

build St. Petersburg

b)

gain German allies

c)

gain a warm-water port on the Black Sea

d)

take over a section of Poland.

4.

To avoid war over Poland, the countries of Russia, Prussia, and Austria

a)

decided to partition it amongst themselves.

b)

asked France to decide the country's fate.

c)

allowed Poland to choose it own leader and style of government.

5.

Peter the Great's goals for Russia included:

a)

Centralizing his own royal power and strengthening the military

b)

Increasing the power of the boyars.

c)

Eliminating the use of serfs as a source of labor.

d)

Increasing the powers of the Russian Orthodox Church.

6.

If the Armada was a symbol of Spanish power, this was the symbol of French power and prestige:

a)

The French Army

b)

The Eiffel tower

c)

St. Peter’s Basicilla

d)

versailles

7.

The enormous 130-ship naval fleet dispatched by Philip Il as part of an invasion of England was known as:

a)

The Spanish fleet

b)

The british armada

c)

the spanish armada

d)

The war of spanish succession

8.

The Spanish Armada was a stunning victory over the English Navy.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

A French Protestant was known as:

a)

edict

b)

mazarin

c)

nantes

d)

Huguenot

10.

Spanish King Philip II, felt his goal in life was to

a)

defend Catholicism against the Protestant Reformation.

b)

create a new Roman empire in the Mediterranean.

c)

control the world market of gold and silver

d)

reunite the Spanish and holy roman empires

11.

the royal court ceremony celebrating the kings rising was known as

a)

the Fronde

b)

the awakening

c)

the levee

d)

the inquisition

12.

royal officials who carried out the policies of Louis XIV were called

a)

intendents

b)

electors

c)

nobles

d)

dissenters

13.

in 1598 the edict of Nantes stand that

a)

Henry iv was the divine ruler of France

b)

French protestants were granted religious freedom

c)

Netherlands was now an independent country

d)

French catholics were granted religious freedom

14.

the belief that a monarchs authority comes directly from god

a)

divine right

b)

hereditary right

c)

divine pledge

d)

monarchy privilage

15.

Spain greatest writer, the authority of don Quixote was

a)

Diego Velazquez

b)

lope de vega

c)

el greco

d)

Miguel de cervantes

16.

the Russian nobles known as boyars were well respected by peter the great for their modern way of thinking

a)

false

b)

true

17.

spinash King Charles I took the name Charles V after he inherited the Hapsburg and holy roman empire

a)

true

b)

false

18.

the inquisition was a protestant court set up to punish catholic heretics

a)

true

b)

false

19.

one reason the Spanish economy declined in the 1600s was the rampant inflation caused by the gold and silver from the americas

a)

true

b)

false

20.

Spanish monarch who abdicated and then divided his empire in two, giving one part to his son and the other to his brother

a)

Ferdinand

b)

Charles v

c)

Phillip II

d)

Louis XIV