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Worksheets9th grade social studies mid term
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
What is the text of Islam
Bible
Quran
Torah
Kaaba
What is the sacred text of Judaism?
Quran
Torah
Bible
New Testament
What is the goal of all Hindus?
Salvation
Nirvana
Moksha
Karma
Which of the following is NOT a Hindu god?
Karma
Braham
Vishnu
Shiva
Siddhartha Gautama is better know as?
Muhammad
Buddha
Vishnu
Shiva
What is something that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe?
The belief in one god
The belief in the divinity of Jesus
The importance of fasting
Restricting one's diet to be closer to god
What does the term monotheistic mean?
Belief in one god
Belief in many gods
Belief in no god
Worshiping of idols
He started a printing revolution
Johann Gutenburg
Noah Webster
Nicolaus Copernicus
Niccolo Machiavelli
He led an expedition that became the first to circumnavigate Earth
Prince Henry
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Henry Hudson
What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England?
Henry VIII wanted a divorce
Henry VIII converted to Lutheranism
The Pope would not end Church Corruption
The Pope rejected the Act of Supremacy
The islands that Christopher Columbus thought he found was named what?
The West Indies
The East Indies
The Philippines
The Aleutians
He led the war in sponsoring exploration for Portugal
King Henry VIII
Prince Henry
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
The age of great change marked by the renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called
Reformation
Middle Age
Renaissance
Medieval Enlightenment
Which country was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Spain
Italy
Greece
Portugal
Which of the following was a factor leading to the Reformation?
The belief that the Pope should support the Renaissance
anger at the worldliness of the Church
A desire to set up a democracy in Whittenberg
The hope that the Church would sell more indulgencces
The Concert of Europe was an agreement to
Support social reform
Support political reform
Support the old order
Support revolutions
What type of government was created in England by the Glorious Revolution?
Absolute monarchy
Republic
Limited monarchy
Democracy
During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
People migrated from villages to work on large farms
People began selling their goods instead of trading them
People learned to use machines to make their own clothes
People migrated from rural areas to cities
The cotton gin was a machine that could
Spin thread
Weave thread into cloth
Remove insects from raw cotton
Remove seeds from raw cotton
The working class
Proletariat
Plebeians
Bourgeoisie
Patricians
He improved the steam engine in the late 1700s
James Watt
Thomas Edison
Thomas Newcomer
Alfred Nobel
“The Greatest happiness for the greatest number” was a goal of
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Capitalism
communism
39. Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it
Limited the individual freedoms of the people
Created prosperity for a few and poverty for many
Discourage labor unions
Prevented government from protecting workers
The killing or forcible removal of people of different ethnicities from an area by aggressor so that only the ethnic group of the aggressors remains
Imperialism
Protectorate
Sphere of influence
Ethnic cleansing
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
Imperialism
Protectorate
Sphere of influence
Ethnic cleansing
In Bismarck’s practice of Realpolitik, his political actions were guided by
The needs of the people
Traditional morality
The principle of divine right
The needs of the state
Which event made Britain enter World War I?
Germany invaded Austria
Germany invaded Belgium
Germany invaded Russia
Germany invaded the U.S.
Area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges
Imperialism
Protectorate
Sphere of influence
Ethnic cleansing
In Bismarck’s practice of Realpolitik, his political actions were guided by
The needs of the people
Traditional morality
The principle of divine right
The needs of the state
The Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on
Increasing German power
Punishing Germany
Decreased American influence
Distributing power throughout Europe
A stalemate developed along the Western Front early in the war because
The United States immediately joined the war
Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage
The German army fought with outdated weapons
The French army was able to push Germany out
The Cottage Industry was a method of
Removing iron from its ore
Separating seeds from cotton
Producing cloth in individual homes
Spinning thread with water power
Shares of ownership in a corporation
Stock
Dividends
CEO
Monopoly
Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Michael Faraday
Guglielmo Marconi
A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called
interchangeable parts
The Bessemer process
Cottage industry
The assembly line
Advocated limiting or banning of alcoholic beverages
Temperance movement
Urban renewal
Capitalism
Social gospel
Rebuilding poor areas of a city
Urban renewal
Temperance renewal
Temperance movement
City planning
What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society?
Socialism
Social gospel
Social Darwinism
Capitalism
Who discovered that surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection?
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
He proposed that idea of separation of powers in government
Montesquieu
Robespierre
Thomas Jefferson
Napoleon
A group of laws reflecting Enlightenment principles
Napoleonic Code
The Constitution
Hammuribi’s Code
The Twelve Tablets
Method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror
Firing squad
Hanging
Electric chair
Guillotine
In France’s old order, the clergy belong to the
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Fourth Estate
The French middle class
Bourgeoisie
Montesquieu
Guillotine
Robespierre
One of the main leaders of the Reign of Terror
Napoleon
Robespierre
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
What war tactic helped the Russians defeat Napoleon?
Scorched-earth policy
Continental System
Waterloo Strategy
Blockades
The Concert of Europe was an agreement to
Support social reform
Support political reform
Support the old order
Support revolutions
What is Geography?
The study of rocks
The study of human systems on earth
The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on earth
The study of physical systems on earth
8. What does the term polytheistic mean?
Belief in many gods
Belief in one god
Belief in no gods
Belief in the natural world
Lines that run parallel to the equator are called
Lines of Latitude
Lines of Longitude
Prime Meridian
Coordinates
Which estate in France’s old order was made up of nobles?
Fourth Estate
Third Estate
Second Estate
First Estate
What was the main goal of the Temperance movement?
To support industrialization
To promote women's suffrage
To limit or ban alcohol consumption
To improve working conditions
Which invention revolutionized the manufacturing process by allowing products to be made with identical components?
Interchangeable parts
Cottage industry
Steam engine
Spinning jenny
