Chapter 20 Review Quiz
1. What distinguished European marriage patterns from
those in the rest of the world?
A. People married early and lived in extended
families
B. People married late and lived in extended
families
C. People married early and lived in nuclear
families
D. People married late and lived in nuclear families
E. Men married late but to younger women, who
moved in with their new husband’s families
2. European laws about prostitution in the early modern
period
A. Grew stricter in comparison to those of the
modern period
B. Effectively eliminated most brothels by the
eighteenth century
C. Were so lax that prostitution flourished
D. Were stricter in Catholic areas than in
Protestant areas
E. Were enforced in cases of male prostitution but
not in cases of female prostitution
3. The rapid rise in illegitimacy after 1750 was due to
A. The rising population
B. The high death rate of men in war, leaving
many women with a shortage of eligible
partners
C. A decline in community controls
D. Increasing restrictions on marriage
E. Enlightenment attitudes about sex
4. Cottage industry tended to
A. Tie young people to their homes
B. Create ways to earn an income not tied to the
land
C. Delay marriage because young people had to
wait until they could inherit land before they
could marry
D. Discourage marriage because land got so
expensive
E. Flourish in areas where the land was of good
quality
5. Child care practices in Paris were different from
many other parts of Europe in that women there
A. Relatively rarely nursed their own babies
B. Usually used wet nurses in their own homes
C. Rejected wet nursing as unhealthy for the
babies
D. Rarely abandoned their babies to foundling
hospitals
E. Regularly committed infanticide
6. The eighteenth-century phrase “spare the rod and
spoil the child” reflects
A. Enlightenment attitudes towards children
B. The ideas of Rousseau in Emile
C. The idea that strict discipline prepares a child
for a harsh world
D. The impact of high infant mortality rates
E. Attitudes found in Spain but rarely in England
7. The first state to establish compulsory education for
male children was
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
England
Holland
Austria
France
Prussia
8. Rising literacy among men and women in the
eighteenth century was reflected in the
A. Popularity of chapbooks that mostly dealt with
practical subjects
B. Reading of almanacs by commoners, though
rarely by the well-to-do
C. New literacy genre of the novel
D. Widespread reading of the works of the
Enlightenment
E. Abandonment of fairy tales in favor for more
serious reading
Chapter 20 Review Quiz
9. The consumption of tea and sugar
A. Was almost entirely limited to the working class
B. Was replaced by the consumption of chocolate
and coffee in the eighteenth century
C. Was too expensive for most common people
D. Was generally done at work by workers but at
home by the well-to-do
E. Declined noticeably at the end of the
eighteenth century
10. The midwife Madame du Coudray
A. Spread knowledge of midwifery through
teaching and books
B. Was arrested for practicing medicine without a
license
C. Was considered socially unacceptable and
never found a husband
D. Died in childbirth herself
E. Did little to improve infant mortality rates
11. Which was not an aspect of the developing
consumer culture of the late eighteenth century?
A. Cotton and other materials from the colonies
expanded the size and diversity of wardrobes
B. Men and women both followed the dictates of
fashion merchants
C. More household goods meant rooms were
given specific attire
D. Working women could acquire cheaper versions
of fashionable attire
E. Apothecaries advertised the curative powers of
their medicine
12. Medical practice in the eighteenth century
A. Made little improvement in treating battlefield
wounds
B. Generally removed women from the practice of
midwifery, replacing them with physicians
C. Limited midwifery to delivering babies, while
physicians took over medical treatment of
women.
D. Began to eliminate smallpox after the idea of
inoculation was brought to Turkey
E. Denounced the former practices of purging the
bowels and bloodletting.
13. Which exemplifies the weakness of the papacy
against growing state power in the eighteenth century?
A. The dissolution of the Jesuit order
B. Protestant and Catholic attacks on Anabaptists
C. Joseph II’s abolition of all monasteries in Austria
D. The state takeover of the charitable functions of
the church
E. The banning of Carnival celebrations in France
14. Pietism, Methodism, and Jansenism all represented
A. Religious reform movements in Catholic
countries
B. Religious reform movements in Protestant
countries
C. The widespread need for a more personal and
spiritual Christianity
D. A rejection of Calvinist ideas
E. Movements that appealed to the educated
elites
15. Carnival helped release social tensions by allowing
people for those few days to
A. Bet on cockfighting
B. Drink gin
C. Dress up and play-act as their opposites
D. Go to urban affairs
E. Attend boxing matches