Absolute Monarchs Review Quiz

The cause of the English Civil War was?

• England making an alliance with Spain angering France

• Charles I ignoring and ruling without Parliament

• Charles I granting more rights to peasants

• Wars waged against Louis XIV

What a result of the English Civil War (What happened after)?

• England returned to Catholic rule

• In England, no monarch could claim absolute power anymore

• In England, the forces supporting the king won and established more absolute control

• England's vast trading empire began its long, steady decline

What was the main concern of Russia under Peter the Great?

• Turning control over to the Russian Orthodox Church

• Ending the practice of Feudalism and freeing the serfs

• Reconnecting Russian to Asian markets

• Westernizing Russia and reconnecting it to Europe

How did absolute monarchs seek to centralize their power?

• Weaken the power of lesser nobility

• Give nobility important positions within the government

• Eliminate representative bodies that give voice to the nobility

• All answers listed

AT THE END of the Thirty Years War, most alliances were formed on the basis of?

• Defending religion against the changes of the Reformation

• Growing royal power and maintaining the balance of power

• Growing colonies in the New World

• Ethnic and cultural ties among similar nationalities

AT THE START of the Thirty Years War, most alliances were formed on the basis of?

• Religious identity

• Growing royal power

• Nation-building

• Political advancement

The complete right to rule comes from God?

• Divination

• Divine Right

• Puritanism

• Providential Power

After the Glorious Revolution, when William and Mary were chosen by Parliament to rule England as King and Queen, the government of England became a(n)

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy led by an all powerful king and queen

• Oligarchy led by a committee of nobles

• Theocracy led by the Pope

What does "L'etat, c'est moi" mean? 

• I am the most important ruler
• I am the king 
• I am the state 
• I am the best 

Louis XIV built a new capital city, and palace, in this French town.

• Normandy
• Paris
• Sienne
• Versailles