AP EURO BALLS

Question 1

During the eighteenth century, the idea of divine right

Answer 1

was replaced by the idea of “enlightened absolutism” justified by utilitarian arguments.

Question 2

France in the eighteenth century

Answer 2

lost an empire while acquiring a huge public debt.

Question 3

The prime minister who furthered British imperial ambitions by acquiring Canada and India was

Answer 3

William Pitt the Elder.

Question 4

By the eighteenth century, the Dutch Republic

Answer 4

suffered a decline in economic prosperity.

Question 5

Under the reign of Frederick William I, Prussia

Answer 5

developed a civil service staffed by middle-class officials.

Question 6

The Austrian emperor Joseph II

Answer 6

provoked general discontent due to his enlightened but radical reforms.

Question 7

The enlightened legal reforms expressed by Catherine the Great in her Instruction

Answer 7

accomplished little due to heavy opposition and were soon forgotten.

Question 8

Pugachev’s rebellion broke out after

Answer 8

Catherine the Great’s policies worsened conditions for the peasantry.

Question 9

Which of the following countries did not participate in the partition of Poland?

Answer 9

England

Question 10

During the eighteenth century, Spain…

Answer 10

was temporarily rejuvenated by the reforms of Philip V.

Question 11

Those rulers associated with the enlightened absolutism in the eighteenth century

Answer 11

could never completely overcome the political and social realities of the time.

Question 12

European diplomacy during the eighteenth century

Answer 12

was shaped by the attempt to prevent one state from dominating the others.

Question 13

The War of Austrian Succession began in 1740 when Prussia attacked the Habsburg province of

Answer 13

Silesia

Question 14

The young Habsburg empress whose country was attacked in the War of Austrian Succession was

Answer 14

Maria Theresa

Question 15

Which war do some historians regard as the first world war?

Answer 15

The Seven Years’ War.

Question 16

As a result of the French and Indian Wars, France

Answer 16

lost Canada.

Question 17

During the second half of the eighteenth century

Answer 17

the rate of population growth was nearly double that of the first half of the century.

Question 18

All of the following contributed to the growth of population in the second half of the eighteenth century except

Answer 18

the eradication of typhus and smallpox.

Question 19

All of the following were persistent trends in the upper-class eighteenth-century European family except

Answer 19

the removal of children from foundling homes to board at state and municipal workshops.

Question 20

New European attitudes toward children are made visible in all of the following except

Answer 20

a reinforcement of the custom of primogeniture.

Question 21

Which one of the following non-native, imported products allowed Irish peasants to survive on the small plots of land left to them by English landlords?

Answer 21

potatoes.

Question 22

The image can be used by historians as evidence for which of the following changes in European history?

Answer 22

The development of a market economy

Question 23

One way that a woman’s role in married life during this time period stayed the same was

Answer 23

she was expected to have children to carry on the family line and oversee the household.