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World History Test 9

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Bolshevik Revolution began on November 25, ____.

a)

1911

b)

1915

c)

1917

d)

1918

2.

Who came to the English throne by the Glorious Revolution?

a)

Charles I

b)

Charles II

c)

James II

d)

William III

3.

Who succeeded James I as ruler of England?

a)

Charles I

b)

Charles II

c)

James II

d)

William III

4.

Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat?

a)

Battle of Austerlitz

b)

Battle of Leipzig

c)

Battle of Trafalgar

d)

Battle of Waterloo

5.

Who is called the “Father of New France”?

a)

Robert Cavalier de la Salle

b)

Samuel de Champlain

c)

Louis Joliet

d)

Jacques Marquette

6.

Which king said, “After me the deluge.”

a)

Louis XIV

b)

Louis XV

c)

Louis XVI

d)

Louis XVIII

7.

Which king was executed during the French Revolution?

a)

Louis XIV

b)

Louis XV

c)

Louis XVI

d)

Louis XVIII

8.

Who wrote The Gulag Archipelago?

a)

Friedrich Engels

b)

Fëdor Dostoevski

c)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

d)

Leo Tolstoy

9.

Which war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht?

a)

Napoleonic Wars

b)

Spanish-American War

c)

War of the League of Augsburg

d)

War of Spanish Succession

10.

Which was not a part of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?

a)

collectivization of agriculture

b)

build-up of state-controlled industry

c)

form of state capitalism to strengthen the economy

d)

control of economy by Communist leaders

11.

The best remembered agricultural scientist in America is _______________________

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Norman Borlaug

c)

J. Sterling Morton

d)

Cyrus McCormick

12.

Identify the secret police organization created by Lenin.

a)

Cheka

b)

KGB

c)

SS

d)

Gestapo

13.

Who developed the theories of relativity? Select the correct option:

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Niels Bohr

14.

Who was the most famous evangelist of the Great Awakening?

a)

George Whitefield

b)

Jonathan Edwards

c)

John Wesley

d)

Charles Finney

15.

The Russian empress who embraced Western ideas is:

a)

Catherine the Great

b)

Peter the Great

c)

Elizabeth of Russia

d)

Maria Feodorovna

16.

What radio station was the first commercial broadcasting station to go on the air?

a)

KDKA

b)

WJBK

c)

WWJ

d)

WNEW

17.

Karl Marx’s close friend and co-author of the Communist Manifesto is _____________

a)

Friedrich Engels

b)

Vladimir Lenin

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Joseph Stalin

18.

The assembly-line process was invented by _____________

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Ransom Olds

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Nikola Tesla

19.

Who established the Moravian settlement of Herrnhut?

a)

Count von Zinzendorf

b)

John Wesley

c)

King George

d)

Martin Luther

20.

Identify the three countries which formed the Triple Entente.

a)

France, Russia, and United Kingdom

b)

France, Germany, and Italy

c)

Russia, Germany, and Italy

d)

United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy

21.

G. W. F. Hegel introduced the idea of dialectical reasoning.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Jethro Tull invented the steel plow.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Vancouver was the first permanent French settlement in North America.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Sir Humphry Davy invented the miner’s safety lamp.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The American pastor D. L. Moody preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

a)

True

b)

False

26.

The word proletariat refers to the middle class.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Armistice Day is now celebrated as Veteran’s Day in the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

Josephine was Napoleon’s second wife.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Peter the Great was the first Russian czar.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

The President of the United States during World War I was _______.

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Abraham Lincoln

32.

What act made Canada a self-governing commonwealth?

a)

The Statute of Westminster, 1931

b)

The British North America Act

c)

The Constitution Act, 1982

d)

The Canadian Confederation Act

33.

Name the two American army doctors who worked to eliminate yellow fever.

a)

Walter Reed

b)

James Carroll

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

William Gorgas

34.

The Soviet Union in 1922 was formed by:

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Leon Trotsky

d)

Mikhail Gorbachev

35.

Who created the modern nursing profession?

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Mary Eliza Mahoney

d)

Dorothea Dix

36.

What war gave the United States control of Cuba and the Philippines?

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

Mexican-American War

c)

Philippine-American War

d)

Revolutionary War

37.

The first practical steamship was invented by which inventor?

a)

Robert Fulton

b)

James Watt

c)

George Stephenson

d)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

38.

The French Revolution began in:

a)

1789

b)

1776

c)

1799

d)

1812

39.

Identify the “Father of Nuclear Science”.

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Niels Bohr

d)

Enrico Fermi

40.

The uprising of native Indian soldiers against the British East India company is called ______.

a)

Sepoy Rebellion

b)

Indian Rebellion

c)

Mutiny of 1857

d)

Revolt of 1857

41.

What country was not represented by the Big Four at the Versailles Peace Conference?

a)

England

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

United States

42.

Who was Britain’s longest reigning monarch? (before Elizabeth II)

a)

Charles

b)

Victoria

c)

Elizabeth

d)

Edward

43.

What was the largest British offensive in the East during World War I called?

a)

A. Battle of the Bulge

b)

B. Gallipoli Campaign

c)

C. Somme Offensive

d)

D. none of the above

44.

Whose death caused the beginning of World War I?

a)

Archduke Ferdinand

b)

Nicholas II

c)

Kaiser Wilhelm

d)

none of the above

45.

Who developed the germ theory of disease?

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Joseph Lister

c)

James Clerk Maxwell

d)

Louis Pasteur

46.

Who invented the spinning mule?

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

Samuel Crompton

c)

James Hargreaves

d)

John Kay

47.

The Battle of __________________ forced the German fleet to return to its home ports and remain there for the duration of the war.

a)
Jutland
b)

the Marne

c)

Mediterranean

d)

Verdun

48.

What area was colonized by Dutch farmers known as Boers?

a)

Australia

b)

India

c)

New Zealand

d)

South Africa

49.

Who founded the Fabian Society?

a)

Thomas Huxley

b)

Charles Kingsley

c)

George Bernard Shaw

d)

C. T. Studd

50.

Who led Arab revolts against Turkish rule in the Arabian Peninsula?

a)

Edmund Allenby

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

C. T. E. Lawrence

d)

Henri Pétain

51.

Editor of the Encyclopedia

a)

Denis Diderot

b)

Robert Peel

c)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

d)

Maximillian Robespierre

52.

founded the London Police Force

a)

Denis Diderot

b)

Robert Peel

c)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

d)

Maximillian Robespierre

53.

"Father of French Romanticism"

a)

Denis Diderot

b)

Robert Peel

c)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

d)

Maximillian Robespierre

54.

responsible for the reign of Terror

a)

Denis Diderot

b)

Robert Peel

c)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

d)

Maximillian Robespierre

55.

world's greatest naval hero

a)

Lord Nelson

b)

Jean Baptiste Colbert

c)

Duke of Wellington

d)

John Locke

56.

French minister of finance

a)

Lord Nelson

b)

Jean Baptiste Colbert

c)

Duke of Wellington

d)

John Locke

57.

defeated Napoleon at Waterloo

a)

Lord Nelson

b)

Jean Baptiste Colbert

c)

Duke of Wellington

d)

John Locke

58.

English philosopher who promoted empiricism

a)

Lord Nelson

b)

Jean Baptiste Colbert

c)

Duke of Wellington

d)

John Locke

59.

taught the philosophy of idealism

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

William Gladstone

c)

Carlos Finlay

d)

Paul von Hindenburg

60.

prime minister known as "The Grand Old Man"

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

William Gladstone

c)

Carlos Finlay

d)

Paul von Hindenburg

61.

theorized that a mosquito carries yellow fever

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

William Gladstone

c)

Carlos Finlay

d)

Paul von Hindenburg

62.

supreme commander of all Central Powers forces

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

William Gladstone

c)

Carlos Finlay

d)

Paul von Hindenburg

63.

made the first successful airplane flight

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Max Planck

c)

John J. Pershing

d)

David Livingston

64.

developed the quantum theory of matter and energy

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Max Planck

c)

John J. Pershing

d)

David Livingston

65.

commander of the American Expeditionary Force

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Max Planck

c)

John J. Pershing

d)

David Livingston

66.

missionary to Africa

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Max Planck

c)

John J. Pershing

d)

David Livingston

67.

French Field Marshal

a)

Ferdinand Foch

b)

Amy Carmichael

c)

Eddie Rickenbacker

d)

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

68.

missionary to India

a)

Ferdinand Foch

b)

Amy Carmichael

c)

Eddie Rickenbacker

d)

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

69.

American "ace" pilot

a)

Ferdinand Foch

b)

Amy Carmichael

c)

Eddie Rickenbacker

d)

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

70.

designed the dirigible

a)

Ferdinand Foch

b)

Amy Carmichael

c)

Eddie Rickenbacker

d)

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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