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WESTERN
CIVILIZATION NAME
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Test
#30b5 
1-7. Below you will find a list of places,
regions or areas. Select only SEVEN
and place them on the map you will be given.
Be as precise as you can!! Each
will be worth TWO points.
Ireland Prussia Brittany
Holland Sweden Moscow
Provence Saxony Bohemia
Alps Mountains North
Sea English
Channel
(REMEMBER -- On the scantron
sheet, put the answer a. for
the first seven(7) questions.
8. Eurodisney in Paris, France, has just closed for the day. A cold front has caused Mickey and Minnie to put on their rain coats and mittens. Donald is getting out his ice skates. In the next few days we can expect that this snow storm will soon appear over what city?
a. London;
b. Madrid;
c. Berlin;
d. Rome.
9. Which of the following English kings is in
the correct order?
a.
Edward II, Mary, and Elizabeth;
b. Edward II,
Henry VIII, and William;
c. William I,
Edward I and Henry I;
d. Elizabeth,
Mary, Edward I.
10. The “Great Interregnum” was
a. England’s attempt to colonize the New World;
b. a great example of how dynastic struggles
hurt national development;
c. the “German “ princes victory over the Holy
Roman Emperor;
d. Ireland’s independent movement.
11.
Henri III, Henri IV and Henri, Duke of Guise all have one
thing in common? What is it?
a. they were all kings of France;
b.
they were all killed in battle;
c.
they all had no heirs;
d.
they were all assassinated.
12. Louis
VI's great advisor was
a.
Suger;
b.
Charlemagne;
c.
Richelieu;
d.
Sully.
13. In 1598, this became the first document of
religious toleration stating that French Protestants could practice their
religion in the privacy of their own homes.
What is it?
a.
the Magna Carta;
b.
the Pragmatic Sanction;
c. the Edict
of Nantes;
d. the Paris
Toleration Agreement.
14. The best example of a "Germanic
Monarch" was
a.
Peter the Great (Russia);
b.
Hugh Capet (France);
c. Philip IV (France);
d.
Henri IV (France).
15. Which of the following was not a country in
1500?
a. Spain
b.
Hungary
c. Holland
d. Sweden
16. The last stage of the Thirty Years War was
called the
a.
Bohemian Stage;
b.
Austria Stage;
c.
Swedish Stage;
d. Swedish /French Stage.
17. The policy of France during the Thirty Years
War was
a.
to ally with the other Catholic countries against the Protestants;
b.
to remain neutral throughout the war;
c.
to ally with the Spain against King Christian of Denmark;
d. to ally in the end with Sweden and the other
Protestant forces.
18. What name is associated with the lay
investiture controversy?
a.
Otto I
b.
Hugh Capet;
c. Henry IV,
HRE;
d. Edward I.
19. Which was not a policy of Cardinal
Richelieu?
a.
Raison d’ etat;
b.
isolate Spain;
c.
reform the Catholic Church;
d.
subdue the Huguenots.
20. One of the key differences between English
and Irish history is that England
a.
rejected the Protestant reformation;
b.
became Protestant while Ireland remained Catholic;
c.
has a better climate than Ireland;
d.
was influenced by the Council of Trent while Ireland was not.
21. All the following were used by Louis VI in
his attempt to administer France better, EXCEPT:
a.
calling of the first Estates-General;
b.
reclamation of lost land;
c. reappearance
of a money economy;
d. hiring of
middle class officials to do the work of administering the kingdom.
22. During this period which statement best
describes the country of Holland?
a.
it had just recently been captured by France;
b. it was one of the most prosperous countries
in Europe;
c.
the Thirty years War was to economically ruin the country for years;
d. its
military power made it one of Europe’s powerhouses.
23. Which of the following were battles in the Thirty Years War?
a.
Breitenfeld, Lutzen and Rocroi;
b.
Crecy, Poitiers, and Sluys;
c.
Vienna, Prague, and Budapest;
d.
Romana, Herculaneum and Tours. .
24. Sidney Painter states that one of the distinguishing factors of a Germanic kingdom is
a.
elected monarchs
b.
hereditary monarchs
c.
new monarchs
d.
divine right monarchs
25. German population
during the Thirty Year War
a.
rose by 10 million people;
b. went from 15 to 11 million;
c.
dropped by over 1o million people;
d.
remained basically the same.
26. Which two rulers were at the center of the
episode at Canossa?
a. Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII;
b.
Ferdinand and Isabella;
c.
Otto and Pope Innocent III;
d. Louis VI and Boniface VIII.
27. The Plantagenant kings are associated with
what country?
a.
Germany;
b.
France;
c. England;
d. Spain.
28. Sidney Painter states that one of the distinguishing factors of a Feudal Monarch is
a.
their ability to tax their subjects
b.
that they are hereditary monarchs
c.
that they are elected monarchs
d.
they are divine right monarchs
29. Philip IV,
called “the fair”,
a.
marked the virtual end of feudalism in France;
b.
lost in his battle to subdue the church;
c.
died on the Third Crusade;
d. died a Divine
Right Monarch.
30. “First Amongst Equals” is associated with
what type of Monarchs?
a.
Germanic monarchs
b. Feudal
monarchs
c. New
monarchs
d. Divine
right monarchs.
31. What happened in 711?
a.
The Moors invade Spain;
b.
Castile and Aragon are united;
c. Ferdinand
and Isabella marry;
d. the Moors are chased out of Spain.
32. He won the Battle of White Mountain; he was
accused of selling his own supplies to the enemy. He was?
a.
Gustavus Adolphus;
b.
Albrecht Wallenstein;
c.
Lars Hinderdahl;
d. Gunthar Stockholm.
33. The Peace of Westphalia
a. ended the Thirty Years War;
b. strengthened the Holy Roman Empire;
b. represented
the complete victory for the Catholic Church;
c. eliminated
Calvinism in northern Europe.
34. Peter the Great
a.
marked the virtual end of feudalism in Russia;
b.
attempted to bring western ideas to Russia;
c.
was responsible for the conquest of Siberia;
d. died fighting the Mongols.
35. Frederick I, called “Barbarrosa”,
a.
marked the virtual end of feudalism in the Holy Roman Empire;
b.
won his battle to subdue the church;
c.
died on the Third Crusade;
d.
died as a Divine Right Monarch.
36. After the conquest of the Mongols in the
1200, Russia becomes a state when the leaders of this city begin to take
control of the area. Eventually the
Russian Empire will be born. That city
was?
a.
Moscow;
b. Kiev;
c.
St Petersburg;
d. Novgorod.
37. “It had taken four kings of France nearly a
century to quell the ambitions of the aristocracy. It took Francis II (after the death of Henri II) less than a
year” to allow the aristocracy again to rival the French kings. The French family that came to challenge the
monarch in that time period was the
a.
Valois family;
b.
Bourbon family;
c.
Guise family;
d. Crecy
family.
38. Sigismund I, Sigismund III, and Casmir IV
were all leaders of
a. Poland;
b. Russia;
c. Kiev;
d. Holy Roman Empire.
39. Caesaropapism, one of Mr. Sidoli’s favorite
words,
a. leaves
the church in control of all religious and civilian matters;
b. meant
that the Pope would handle all religious issues;
c. called
for religion affairs to be controlled by the political structure of the state;
d. was the official title of the leader of the Holy
Roman Empire.
40. What was true about warfare in the Thirty
Years War?
a. the
strong walls of most German cities prevented major civilian loss;
b. little changed from the Hundred Years War;
c. the
crossbow regained its preeminence;
d. guns finally became the weapon on choice,
killing the most people.
41. The Habsburg family is associated with lands
in all of the following countries, EXCEPT
a. Spain;
b. Prussia;
c. parts
of Germany;
d. Austria.
42-
46. TIMELINE: PLACE THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR ORDER OF OCCURRENCE:
A.
Jacques de Molay burned at the stake
B. Canossa
C. Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
D.
Defenestration of Prague
E.
Pragmatic Sanction
42.____42. first
43.____43.
44.____44.
45.____45.
46.____46. last
47-50. Label
B, for Baillis, or D, for
Prevots, TO INDICATE which of the two was
responsible
for the following jobs or tasks:
47.
_____ became the main officials
of Philip II and Louis IX
48.
_____ hereditary
49.
_____ king paid them a salary
50.
_____ came first chronologically
