AP Euro Test chapter 17-18
1. What is the name of the famous European populizer who helped link the Reformation and the
Scientific Revolution?
a. Bernard de Fontennelle
c. Voltaire
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Montesquieu
2. Who was the famous enlightenment thinker who developed the idea of Separation of Powers?
a. Bernard de Fontennelle
c. Voltaire
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Montesquieu
3. What do you call the religious outlook that portrayed God as a creator that then left the earth
and does not answer prayers?
a. Pietism
c. Deism
b. Methodism
d. Naturism
4. What was the famous buzz word of the enlightenment?
a. Reason
c. Candide
b. Philosophy
d. Absolutism
5. What was Immanuel Kant’s famous phrase of the Enlightenment?
a. Think outside the box
c. Reach for the stars
b. Dare to know
d. I think therefore I am
6. Which lengthy book was reduced in price which led to its popularity?
a. Social Contract
c. Candide
b. Persian Letters
d. Encyclopedia
7. What was the name given to intellectuals during the enlightenment?
a. Sophists
c. academics
b. philosophes
d. nerds
8. What do you call the culture of regular people?
a. High culture
c. Popular culture
b. Low culture
d. Traditional culture
9. Who applied the scientific method to human nature creating the social sciences?
a. Bernard de Fontennelle
c. William Pitt
b. David Hume
d. James the first
10. Who was the German that claimed God did not exist but was a creation of human imagination?
a. Condorcet
c. Voltaire
b. Holbach
d. Emelyn Pugachev
11. Who claimed the earth was entering a 10th stage of perfection?
a. Condorcet
c. Voltaire
b. Holbach
d. William Pitt
12. Who said man was born with a Tabula Rasa?
a. Isaac Newton
c. George III
b. John Locke
d. Montesquieu
13. Who developed Romanticism?
a. Voltaire
c. Rousseau
b. John Locke
d. Montesquieu
14. Who is the founder of Feminism?
a. Mary Theresa
c. Marie Antoinette
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Mariel Marie
15. What was the movement called where individuals wanted to have a deeper personal connection
to God?
a. Pietism
c. Deism
b. Naturism
d. philosophy
16. Which one of the following was a classical composer?
a. Mozart
c. Bach
b. Handel
d. Bob Seeger
17. Which one of the following was a baroque musician?
a. Mozart
c. Beethoven
b. Handel
d. Bob Seeger
18. Which art form followed curves of natural objects?
a. Rococo
c. Baroque
b. Impressionism
d. High Renaissance
19. Where did many enlightened thinkers gather to discuss new ideas?
a. In parliament
c. Salons
b. At the palace of Versailles
d. In public schools
20. What do you call a book without established rules that became popular in the Enlightenment?
a. An epic
c. poetry
b. A novel
d. Expository Texts
21. Who is the founder of Methodism?
a. Martin Luther
c. Blaise Pascal
b. John Calvin
d. John Wesley
22. Who wrote the Wealth of Nations?
a. Adam Smith
c. John Smith
b. Colbert
d. Condorcet
23. What do you call a hand off approach to economics?
a. Capitalism
c. Laissez Faire
b. Socialism
d. Mercantilism
24. What do you call a culturally diverse city?
a. Cosmopolitan
c. Rural
b. Urban
d. Enlightened
25. Who wrote the Encyclopedia?
a. Diderot
c. Rousseau
b. Voltaire
d. Adam Smith
26. Who wrote the Candide which insulted traditional religion?
a. Holbach
c. Voltaire
b. Pascal
d. Montesquieu
27. Which scientist’s ideas inspired the Science of Man?
a. Paracelsus
c. Galen
b. William Harvey
d. Newton
28. Who wrote the Social Contract?
a. Voltaire
c. Rousseau
b. Diderot
d. John Locke
29. What alcoholic drink became immensely popular in England?
a. Beer
c. Gin
b. Vodka
d. Tonic
30. George I, II, and III were all what?
a. Hanoverians
c. English
b. Scottish
d. French
31. Who was the famous wife of Louis 16th?
a. Marie Antoinette
c. Mariel Marie
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Mary Theresa
th
32. Who ruled for King Louis 15 while he was young?
a. Cardinal Richelieu
c. Cardinal Fleury
b. Cardinal Mazarin
d. Cardinal Louis
33. After being accused of choosing Lord Butte who did George III elect as the new prime minister?
a. William Pitt Jr.
c. William Harvey
b. John Wesley
d. John Winthrop
34. Which king of England was said to be crazy and was in charge during the American Rev.?
a. George I
c. George III
b. George II
d. Charles XI
35. Which war was caused over Charles VI’s desire to have his daughter accepted as the next
Austrian Ruler?
a. War of Spanish Succession
c. The Augsburg Confrontation
b. The French and Indian War
d. The War of Austrian Succession
36. Which enlightened Prussian leader allowed Voltaire to live with him?
a. Frederick I
c. Joseph II
b. Frederick II
d. Catherine the Great
37. What finally ended the 7 Years’ War?
a. The Treaty of Augsburg
c. The Treaty of Fontainebleau
b. The Treaty of Versailles
d. The Treaty of Paris
38. Who invented the Water Frame which helped in the textile industry?
a. Thomas Edison
c. John Wesley
b. Richard Arkwright
d. Eli Whitney
39. When the conflicts of the 7 Years’ War moved to North America what was it referred to as?
a. The American Revolution
c. The French and Indian War
b. The Spanish American War
d. The War against Europe
40. What was the name of the Russian peasant who led a revolt against Catherine the Great?
a. Emile
c. Emelyn Pugachev
b. Gavril Princip
d. Marie Antoinette
41. Which enlightened Austrian saw his life as a failure because his new ideas failed?
a. Catherine the Great
c. Frederick II
b. Frederick I
d. Joseph II
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42. Who was the famous wife of Louis 16 that supposedly said let them eat cake?
a. Mariel Marie
c. Maria Teresa
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Marie Antoinette
43. What are thought to be inalterable privileges owed to countries citizens?
a. Natural Rights
c. Enlightened Education
b. Natural Laws
d. Natural Truths
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Infanticide became more prevalent during the 18th century.
Planting Turnips, Alfalfa, and clover helped add nitrogen into the soil during the Agricultural Rev.
A tithe that peasants had to pay was always 10 % of their harvest.
The social group that made up 2-3% of the population were peasants.
Primogeniture was the practice of favoring the first born male.
The Union of Ireland and England was called the United Kingdom
The putting out system is when business men bought raw goods then sent them to rural areas
for peasants to work on at home.