Global 9 ABSOLUTISM QUIZ

Which person is credited with saying “L’état, c’est moi” (I am the state)?

• Louis XIV

• John Locke

• Karl Marx

• Queen Isabella

The theory justifying a monarch’s rule by God’s authority is called

• laissez faire

• totalitarianism

• predestination

• divine right

Many European monarchs of the 1600s maintained that they should have absolute power to rule because they

• needed to defend their nations against threats from the Western Hemisphere

• thought that all people should have the right to a good ruler

• had been given their power to govern from God

• thought that communism was the superior political system

During the Age of Absolutism (1600s and 1700s), European monarchs tried to

• increase individual rights for their citizens

• develop stronger relations with Islamic rulers

• encourage the growth of collective farms

• centralize political power within their nations

The cartoon is commenting on the efforts of Peter the Great to force the Russian nobility to

• conform to Asian social values

• adopt Western culture

• prepare for military battle

• bow to pressures from the Ottoman Empire

Which Russian ruler’s goals are described in the poem?

• Ivan the Terrible

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

• Nicholas II

Which policy was developed to implement the plans described in the poem?

• westernization

• isolationism

• appeasement

• balance of power politics

Which type of government is best represented by this illustration?

• absolute monarchy

• parliamentary monarchy

• military junta

• communist dictatorship

Which ruler would most likely be associated with this illustration?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Benito Mussolini

• Louis XIV

• Neville Chamberlain

This statement describes the philosophy that existed during the

• Enlightenment

• Age of Absolutism

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution