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1

The European population increased during the first half of the seventeenth century. _____
A)True
B)False
2

The centralization of government and all this entailed, such as the need for army conscripts and higher taxes, made life worse for peasants. _____
A)True
B)False
3

The growing elite under Henry IV, the nobility of the robe, were so called because they served in the French army. _____
A)True
B)False
4

A series of uncoordinated revolts between 1648 and 1653 known as the Fronde forced the young king Louis XIV and his regent to flee Paris. _____
A)True
B)False
5

Mazarin thought he could raise the prestige of the French king by building the elaborate palace Versailles. _____
A)True
B)False
6

Louis XIV continued Henry IV’s policy of granting tolerance to French Protestants. _____
A)True
B)False
7

East European states were as commercially developed as those in the West. _____
A)True
B)False
8

Prussia’s history after Frederick William was influenced by the legacy of military values and reliance on armed might that he left. _____
A)True
B)False
9

Frederick I acquired the title king of Prussia in 1701. _____
A)True
B)False
10

Leopold I failed to bring most of Hungary’s lands under Austrian control or to wrest them out of Ottoman control. _____
A)True
B)False
11

Stenka Razin led a massive Cossack revolt in southern Russia in the 1660s and 1670s. _____
A)True
B)False
12

In England, the gentry enjoyed a higher social rank than the "peers," or old nobility. _____
A)True
B)False
13

European governments attempted to regulate the types of clothing worn by different social classes through sumptuary laws. _____
A)True
B)False
14

James I did not support the idea of the divine right of kings to rule. _____
A)True
B)False
15

English religious dissidents founded their first colony in the New World at Jamestown. _____
A)True
B)False
16

Charles I’s royalist supporters were known as the Cavaliers. _____
A)True
B)False
17

The Rump Parliament decided to try Charles I under the law as an ordinary citizen, not a king. _____
A)True
B)False
18

The trial of King Charles I was the first in history to receive full coverage in newspapers. _____
A)True
B)False
19

After Parliament considered a proposal to disband his New Model Army, Oliver Cromwell declared himself Lord Protector of the Commonwealth in 1653. _____
A)True
B)False
20

The English Bill of Rights established a constitutional monarchy by making it clear that kings were subject to the law of the land. _____
A)True
B)False
21

The Dutch artist Rembrandt von Rijn's painting "Syndics of the Cloth Guild" represents the virtues of traditional agrarian life. _____
A)True
B)False
22

King James I of England authorized the translation of the Bible which is called the King James Bible. _____
A)True
B)False





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