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HIST201 Final Exam - History of Europe, 1000 to 1800
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MCQs on the history of Europe from the medieval period to the Age of Revolutions in the eighteenth century.
 

HIST201 Final Exam - History of Europe, 1000 to 1800
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1. Boccaccio described the onset of the Black Death as happening in which medieval city?
2. Which of the following was NOT an outcome of the French Revolution?
3. Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of the National Assembly in 1789?
4. Which European country did NOT try to found a settlement in Brazil?
5. Which of the following was a reason why the Carolingian Empire declined soon after Charlemagne's death?
6. Which of the following was a conclusion drawn by Isaac Newton?
7. Out of the following, who was NOT a patron of Leonardo da Vinci?
8. What was the system called, by which merchants supplied raw materials to workers to process on their own time?
9. Which of the following did NOT pose a direct challenge to the Catholic Church in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
10. Which of the following best describes the history of medieval England?
11. Which of the following was founded by Ignatius Loyola in the 1530s?
12. Which of the following is a stipulation of the Act of Uniformity issued by the English Parliament in 1559?
13. Which of the following was an objective pursued by the Papal States government during the Renaissance?
14. The Roundheads subscribed to which religion?
15. Historians usually cite the beginning of the Age of Absolutism usually as which of the following?
16. All of the following were features of the Reign of Terror EXCEPT:
17. According to Thomas Hobbes, all of the following are true EXCEPT:
18. Which of the following literary forms was perfected by Michel de Montaigne?
19. During the Renaissance period, the Italian city-states drew their wealth from which of the following?
20. Which of the following resulted in England's split from the Catholic Church?
21. Who was the first Czar of Russia?
22. Following the invention of the printing press, what was the first European bestseller?
23. Which of the following was NOT a war that broke out between England and France between 1701 and 1763 as a result of the desire to dominate Atlantic trade?
24. Nicolaus Copernicus believed which of the following to be true?
25. Why did Phillip II of Spain want to invade England?