Deck 4: European Absolute Monarchy and Historical Events

Question 1

……………in his 'The Prince' projected the need of an absolute king because he alone could provide security to people.

A)Lynn Thorndike
B)Joan Kelly
C)Mac-Antoine Charpentier
D)Machia velli

Answer 1

Machia velli

Question 2

When the French Revolution broke out?

A)1689
B)1768
C)1769
D)1789

Answer 2

1789

Question 3

…………….in his book 'The State propounded the theory of legal sovereignty' asserted that the king was the source of all law and was accountable to God alone.

A)Jean Bodin
B)John of Plano Carpini
C)William of Rubruquis
D)Cellini

Answer 3

Jean Bodin

Question 4

Louis XIV was the ruler of ……………..

A)Germany
B)Poland
C)Italy
D)France

Question 5

Frederick, the Great was the ruler ……………….

A)Austria
B)Rome
C)Holland
D)Prussia

Question 6

Peter, the Great was the ruler of…………..

A)Russia
B)Spain
C)Austria
D)Portugal

Question 7

Who aptly predicted"After me, the flood."?

A)Louis XIV
B)Victoria
C)James I
D)Frederick, the Great

Question 8

Who appointed Jean Baptiste Colbert as controller general of finances in France?

A)Louis XIV
B)William of Orange
C)Victoria
D)Elizabeth I

Question 9

…………….the Dutch prince, became King of England in 1688, and joined the League of Augsburg, which included the Holy Roman Emperor, the Kings of Spain and Sweden and the electors of several German principalities.

A)William of Orange
B)Jean-Baptiste Lully
C)Charles I
D)James II

Question 10

The Treaty of Utrecht was concluded in …………..

A)1703
B)1713
C)1768
D)1776

Question 11

Nicholas Poussin is generally considered the best example of …………….classicist painting.

A)French
B)British
C)Dutch
D)Russian

Question 12

Whose masterpiece, The Rape of the Sabine Women, exhibits the qualities of noble action in a logical and orderly but not realistic fashion?

A)Nicholas Poussin
B)Robert Fulton
C)Michael Faraday
D)Raphael

Question 13

The credit for establishing absolute monarchy in Prussia goes to………….

A)Frederick, the Great
B)Michelangelo
C)Peter ,the Great
D)Henry VII

Question 14

Frederick was involved in a war which lasted from 1756-63 and is popularly known as ………………

A)Seven Years War
B)American Civil War
C)The War of the Spanish Succession
D)Mexican war

Question 15

The Peace of Hubertsburg was concluded in ……………

A)1703
B)1763
C)1767
D)1769

Question 16

Peter I or peter the Great was another notable ruler who tried to establish absolute monarchy in Europe and earned the reputation of being the most celebrated and the most controversial absolute monarch in the history of ……………..

A)Austria
B)Russia
C)France
D)England

Question 17

………..tried to bring the Russian Orthodox Church under his control by abolishing the office of the Patriarch and placed the church under a committee known as Holy Synod.

A)Frederick ,the Great
B)Peter the Great
C)Nicholas XII
D)Gorbachev

Question 18

………………was an economic "system" that developed in Europe during the period of the new monarchies (1500) and culminated with the rise of the absolutist states (1600-1700).

A)Liberalism
B)Mercantilism
C)Communism
D)Capitalism

Question 19

James I was the ruler of …………….

A)Russia
B)England
C)Saxony
D)Prussia

Question 20

First Bourbon king of France was …………………

A)HenryII
B)Henry IV
C)Henry VIII
D)Charles I

Question 21

Louis XIV belonged to the ……………dynasty.

A)Tudor
B)Bourbon
C)Hapsburg
D)Stuart

Question 22

In 1513, Jhan Ponce do Leon, a …………….explorer led an expedition to the southeastern part of United States.

A)American
B)Spanish
C)Portuguese
D)Dutch

Question 23

The French Protestants known as ……………..

A)Puritans
B)Huguenots
C)Presbyterians
D)Round Heads

Question 24

The first English settlement in ……………was Jamestown, in Virginia.

A)North America
B)South America
C)Africa
D)Canada

Question 25

The ………… century is often called the 'Age of Reason' because it was a period of enlightenment during which philosophy was in vogue throughout Europe.

A)15th
B)16th
C)17th
D)18th