Student Center | Instructor Center | Information Center | Home

The Western Experience, 8/e

Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

War and Crisis

Multiple Choice


1	Philip II of Spain dominated the second half of the sixteenth century because of his
		A)	insatiable quest for military glory.
		B)	determination to defeat the enemies of Catholicism.
		C)	goal of securing Spanish dominance of Europe.
		D)	desire to restore the empire of his father, Charles V.


2	England's victory over the Spanish Armada accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	preventing an invasion of England by Spanish troops.
		B)	enabling England to continue supporting the Dutch rebels.
		C)	sparking rebellions in Portugal, Catalonia, Naples, and Sicily.
		D)	sealing the fate of Spain's Catholic allies in the French Civil War.


3	The Dutch revolt was all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	a national struggle against a foreign overlord.
		B)	a religious struggle between Protestants and Catholics.
		C)	the first major victory in Europe by subjects resisting their monarch's authority.
		D)	the first of the religious wars to end with a treaty ensuring tolerance for both confessions.


4	All of the following were issues in the French Civil War EXCEPT
		A)	Philip II's desire to draw France into his dynastic empire.
		B)	the struggle between the Protestants and the Catholics.
		C)	the rivalry of the Guise and the Bourbon families.
		D)	the reassertion of autonomy by the great nobles.


5	All of the following were true of the combatants in the Thirty Years' War EXCEPT
		A)	The Habsburgs sought to defeat Protestantism and establish control over the Holy Roman Empire.
		B)	The German Catholics sought to advance their religion while avoiding Habsburg domination.
		C)	The German Protestants sought to defend their religion and avoid Habsburg domination.
		D)	The Swedes, Spanish, and French sought to keep the Empire weak to enhance their own relative strength.


6	The Peace of Westphalia was important for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
		A)	it ended the anarchy in Germany.
		B)	it secured Spanish control of Holland.
		C)	it formalized the fragmentation of Germany.
		D)	it laid the groundwork for international relations for the next century.


7	The primary cause of the military revolution was
		A)	gunpowder.
		B)	pikemen.
		C)	sieges.
		D)	discipline.


8	Between 1550 and 1700, the size of the leading army in Europe increased
		A)	from 40,000 to 60,000 men.
		B)	from 40,000 to 100,000 men.
		C)	from 40,000 to 200,000 men.
		D)	from 40,000 to 400,000 men.


9	The growth of the military caused all of the following to increase EXCEPT
		A)	the size of the government bureaucracy needed to support the military.
		B)	the amount of taxes needed to support the military.
		C)	the amount of damage done by soldiers to the areas they were stationed.
		D)	the elaboration of military command and administrative structures.


10	All of the following social groups were centers of opposition to the English monarch EXCEPT
		A)	the Puritans.
		B)	the gentry.
		C)	the nobility.
		D)	the merchants.


11	The Petition of Rights called for and end to all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	imprisonment without cause shown.
		B)	the king's right to dissolve Parliament.
		C)	taxation without Parliament's consent.
		D)	martial law in peacetime.


12	The major factions in the English Civil War included all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	Royalists, who supported the king once the Grand Remonstrance was passed.
		B)	Presbyterians, Puritans who wanted a centrally organized, Calvinist Church.
		C)	Lutherans, who wanted to make the original Protestantism as the state religion.
		D)	Independents, Puritans who wanted each congregation to rule itself.


13	The English Civil War ended with the Restoration of the Stuart dynasty because
		A)	the people had never supported revolution and turned on the Puritans once Cromwell was dead.
		B)	the rebels were unable to create viable permanent structures.
		C)	Parliament realized that it had acted illegally and wanted to restore the rule of law.
		D)	royalists were able to infiltrate the Parliamentary government and stage a bloodless coup.


14	Henry IV's accomplishments included all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	creating religious peace by converting to Catholicism while guaranteeing the rights of the Protestants.
		B)	reestablishing the authority of the king by buying off the nobility and the principal bureaucrats.
		C)	establishing the notion that the government had primary responsibility to foster economic development.
		D)	leading the French intervention in the Holy Roman Empire that frustrated Habsburg designs.


15	Cardinal Richelieu accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	reducing the independence of the traditional nobles.
		B)	establishing the intendents as dominant officials in the provinces.
		C)	destroying the Huguenots' independent military and political power.
		D)	leading the French to final victory in the Thirty Years' War.


16	The growth of royal power in France caused discontent in all of the following groups EXCEPT
		A)	peasants, who objected to the increasingly onerous taxes.
		B)	officials, who wanted to retain and expand their traditional prerogatives.
		C)	merchants, who opposed the heavy hand of government regulation.
		D)	nobles, who resisted the crowns' reduction of their traditional autonomy.


17	The Fronde failed because of
		A)	Spanish intervention.
		B)	the disunity of the rebels.
		C)	the perfidy of the nobles.
		D)	the prestige of the king.


18	Spain suffered from all of the following problems in the mid-seventeenth century EXCEPT
		A)	the wealth from America had been squandered on wars rather than invested in economic development.
		B)	the bureaucracy was inefficient and dominated by Castilians, who were resented in other provinces.
		C)	devastating plagues reduced the population by 40%, from 10 million to 6 million people.
		D)	foreign enemies had invaded the country and seized its most valuable territories.


19	Which of the following was able to break away from the Spanish control during the revolts at mid-century?
		A)	Portugal.
		B)	Catalonia.
		C)	Sicily.
		D)	Naples.


20	The primary constitutional struggle in the United Provinces was between
		A)	the House of Orange, backed by the rural provinces, and the merchant oligarchy that controlled Holland.
		B)	the House of Orange, backed by the merchant oligarchy in Holland, and the rural provinces.
		C)	the Protestant northern provinces and the Catholic southern ones.
		D)	the Protestant urban provinces and the Catholic rural ones.


21	Gustavus Adolphus accomplished all of the following for Sweden EXCEPT
		A)	he made it the most powerful state in the Baltic area and a major power in Europe.
		B)	he organized a bureaucracy that was superior to most until the twentieth century.
		C)	he tamed the nobility so the country was spared constitutional turmoil for centuries.
		D)	he fostered the development of the country's mines and other economic assets.


22	The Romanov dynasty in Russia accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	cementing an alliance with the nobility.
		B)	forcing the peasantry into complete subordination.
		C)	codifying the laws and establishing control of the church.
		D)	keeping the Ukraine from switching allegiance to Poland.

2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of The McGraw-Hill Companies.