Western Civ 2 Chapter 18 Quiz
1. Recent scholarship suggests that the enlightened despots of Europe:
Were affected little by Enlightenment ideas
2. The reign of Louis the XV was marked by:
Mounting debt and higher taxes
3. Robert Walpole was able to add great power to the office of British prime minister:
Because the Hanoverians were not familiar with the English political system
4. “Wilkes and Liberty” was a slogan used by people who wanted to:
Give the right to vote to the common people of London
5. During his forty-six year reign, Frederick the Great of Prussia did not:
Eliminate serfdom and restructure the Prussian class system
6. Joseph II of Austria tried to demonstrate that philosophy was his lawmaker by:
Establishing the principle that all his subjects were equal before the law
7. As a result of the rebellion led by Emelyan Pugachev, Catherin of Russia:
Halted all rural reform and expanded the scope of serfdom
8. The emergence of strong monarchical states in Prussia, Austria, and Russia caused the
collapse and destruction of____.
Poland
9. The dominant power in the Italian states in the eighteenth century was:
Austria
10. The Seven Years’ War:
Led to the weakening of France
11. The most important factor in Europe’s dramatic eighteenth-century population growth
was: a significant decline in the death rate
12. Jethro Tull’s discoveries were part of a general movement to:
Apply the principles of scientific experiment to agricultural practices
13. The Grand Tour made by many young English aristocrats:
Was intended to train them in sophisticated behavior and complete their education
14. Beggars at the end of the eighteenth century were:
