Question 1

What role did Cardinal Mazarin play in Louis XIV's early years?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was commander of the king's body guard. 
B)  He was the prime minister. 
C)  He was the tax collector. 
D)  He was the king's personal confessor. 
E)  He was the representative of the pope. 
A)  He was commander of the king's body guard. 
B)  He was the prime minister. 
C)  He was the tax collector. 
D)  He was the king's personal confessor. 
E)  He was the representative of the pope. B

Question 2

What was Peter the Great's motive for the Great Northern War?

Accepted Answer

A)  To defeat his avowed enemy in Sweden 
B)  To utilize his newly developed navy 
C)  To gain access to the Baltic sea 
D)  To capture Finland 
E)  To suppress the Cossacks who had allied with Poland 
A)  To defeat his avowed enemy in Sweden 
B)  To utilize his newly developed navy 
C)  To gain access to the Baltic sea 
D)  To capture Finland 
E)  To suppress the Cossacks who had allied with Poland C

Question 3

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Jean Baptist Colbert

Accepted Answer

Louis XIV's financial minister who implemented French mercantilist policies

Question 4

Why did the Austrian Habsburgs have a more difficult time than the French in creating an absolutist government?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. The major problem fac

Question 5

What significant step did Louis XV take to control France?

Accepted Answer

A)  He wrote a Bill of Rights. 
B)  He created a centralized parlement. 
C)  He revised the tax collection system. 
D)  He revised the military recruitment policy. 
E)  He created a professional police force. 
A)  He wrote a Bill of Rights. 
B)  He created a centralized parlement. 
C)  He revised the tax collection system. 
D)  He revised the military recruitment policy. 
E)  He created a professional police force.

Question 6

The Austrian alliance brought Russia into European politics and diplomacy by forming a front against _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  France 
B)  England 
C)  Austria 
D)  Prussia 
E)  Sweden 
A)  France 
B)  England 
C)  Austria 
D)  Prussia 
E)  Sweden

Question 7

King Frederick William I was a Calvinist and an absolutist.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Jansenists

Accepted Answer

Austere Catholic reformers who

Question 9

In the 1670s, the English Parliament was controlled by which faction?

Accepted Answer

A)  Anglicans 
B)  Catholics 
C)  Puritans 
D)  Dissenters 
E)  None of these. 
A)  Anglicans 
B)  Catholics 
C)  Puritans 
D)  Dissenters 
E)  None of these.

Question 10

Which of the following nations did not follow the European standard of the professional standing army?

Accepted Answer

A)  Austria 
B)  Prussia 
C)  Britain 
D)  Russia 
E)  France 
A)  Austria 
B)  Prussia 
C)  Britain 
D)  Russia 
E)  France

Question 11

What were the significant differences between the Spanish and Austrian Wars of Succession?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. The War of Spanish Su

Question 12

In his attempt to control the nobility, Peter the Great _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  disbanded the Imperial Diet 
B)  outlawed serfdom 
C)  implemented a Table of Ranks 
D)  required his nobility to obtain a university education 
E)  created a new nobility of the sword 
A)  disbanded the Imperial Diet 
B)  outlawed serfdom 
C)  implemented a Table of Ranks 
D)  required his nobility to obtain a university education 
E)  created a new nobility of the sword

Question 13

Pugachev's rebellion was significant because _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  it involved numerous people of various social orders 
B)  Catherine responded by abolishing serfdom 
C)  it ended the conscription of peasants into the army 
D)  it was the first successful demonstration against taxation in Europe 
E)  it unified the church, nobility, and government against the peasantry 
A)  it involved numerous people of various social orders 
B)  Catherine responded by abolishing serfdom 
C)  it ended the conscription of peasants into the army 
D)  it was the first successful demonstration against taxation in Europe 
E)  it unified the church, nobility, and government against the peasantry

Question 14

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Leopold I

Accepted Answer

Head of the Austrian Habsburgs

Question 15

What were the reforms instituted by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. Maria Theresa was in

Question 16

Define mercantilism, and discuss its effect on European economies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. Mercantilism is the e

Question 17

How did Louis XIV use his powers to centralize and unify France?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. One of the significan

Question 18

How did Prussia rise to prominence in eighteenth-century Europe?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. Under the Hohenzoller

Question 19

Frederick II of Prussia supported the right of Maria Theresa to rule Austria in the War of Austrian Succession.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Who were the winners and losers of the wars of the 1760s and 1770s?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. When the Seven Years'

Exam 16: State Building and the European State System

What role did Cardinal Mazarin play in Louis XIV's early years?

What was Peter the Great's motive for the Great Northern War?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Jean Baptist Colbert

Why did the Austrian Habsburgs have a more difficult time than the French in creating an absolutist government?

What significant step did Louis XV take to control France?

The Austrian alliance brought Russia into European politics and diplomacy by forming a front against _____________.

King Frederick William I was a Calvinist and an absolutist.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Jansenists

In the 1670s, the English Parliament was controlled by which faction?

Which of the following nations did not follow the European standard of the professional standing army?

What were the significant differences between the Spanish and Austrian Wars of Succession?

In his attempt to control the nobility, Peter the Great _____________.

Pugachev's rebellion was significant because _____________.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Leopold I

What were the reforms instituted by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria?

Define mercantilism, and discuss its effect on European economies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

How did Louis XIV use his powers to centralize and unify France?

How did Prussia rise to prominence in eighteenth-century Europe?

Frederick II of Prussia supported the right of Maria Theresa to rule Austria in the War of Austrian Succession.

Who were the winners and losers of the wars of the 1760s and 1770s?

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