The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 13: The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty

True or False Quiz

1
The European population increased during the first half of the seventeenth century.
A)True
B)False
2
The demands of centralized governments such as the need for army conscripts and higher taxes made life worse for peasants.
A)True
B)False
3
The growing elite under Henry IV, the nobility of the robe, were so called because they served in the French army.
A)True
B)False
4
A series of uncoordinated revolts between 1648 and 1653 known as the Fronde forced the young king Louis XIV and his regent to flee Paris.
A)True
B)False
5
Cardinal Jules Mazarin remained the power behind the throne of Louis XIV throughout the French king's adult life.
A)True
B)False
6
Louis XIV continued Henry IV's policy of granting tolerance to French Protestants.
A)True
B)False
7
Seventeenth-century eastern European states were as commercially developed as those in the West.
A)True
B)False
8
Prussia's history after Frederick William was influenced by the legacy of military values and reliance on armed might that he left.
A)True
B)False
9
Frederick I acquired the title king of Prussia in 1701.
A)True
B)False
10
Leopold I succeeding in placing the Hungarian nobles who had wrested themselves free of Ottoman rule under the complete control of the Austrian monarchy.
A)True
B)False
11
Stenka Razin led a massive Cossack revolt in southern Russia in the 1660s and 1670s.
A)True
B)False
12
In England, the gentry enjoyed a higher social rank than the "peers," or old nobility.
A)True
B)False
13
European governments attempted to regulate the types of clothing worn by different social classes through sumptuary laws.
A)True
B)False
14
James I did not support the idea of the divine right of kings to rule.
A)True
B)False
15
English religious dissidents founded their first colony in the New World at Jamestown.
A)True
B)False
16
Charles I's royalist supporters were known as the Cavaliers.
A)True
B)False
17
The Rump Parliament decided to try Charles I under the law as an ordinary citizen, not a king.
A)True
B)False
18
The trial of King Charles I was the first in history to receive full coverage in newspapers.
A)True
B)False
19
After Parliament considered a proposal to disband his New Model Army, Oliver Cromwell declared himself Lord Protector of the Commonwealth in 1653.
A)True
B)False
20
The English Bill of Rights established a constitutional monarchy by making it clear that kings were subject to the law of the land.
A)True
B)False
21
The Dutch artist Rembrandt von Rijn's painting "Syndics of the Cloth Guild" represents the virtues of traditional agrarian life.
A)True
B)False
22
King James I of England authorized the translation of the Bible which is called the King James Bible.
A)True
B)False
Sherman: The West in the World, Fourth Edition
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