AP Euro Absolutism, Science, and Enlightenment

Question 1

Which action by Louis XIV most directly reversed the policy of limited religious toleration that Henry IV had established in France?

Accepted Answer

Issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revoked the Edict of Nantes

Answer

The 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598), outlawing Protestant worship in France. Louis XIV wanted religious uniformity to support his absolutist claim of 'one king, one law, one faith.'

Question 2

Peter the Great's creation of the Table of Ranks (1722) is best understood as an effort to

Accepted Answer

tie noble status and advancement to service to the state rather than to birth alone

Answer

The Table of Ranks organized military and civil positions into a hierarchy in which promotion depended on service. This bound the nobility to the state and increased the tsar's control.

Question 3

Which was a direct result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 in England?

Accepted Answer

The Bill of Rights established that the monarch could not levy taxes or maintain a standing army in peacetime without Parliament's consent

Answer

After James II fled, William and Mary accepted the Bill of Rights (1689), which limited royal power and affirmed Parliament's control over taxation and the military. This created a constitutional monarchy.

Question 4

How did Johannes Kepler modify the Copernican model of the universe?

Accepted Answer

He demonstrated that planets move in elliptical rather than perfectly circular orbits around the Sun

Answer

Using Tycho Brahe's observational data, Kepler showed that planetary orbits are ellipses with the Sun at one focus. This corrected Copernicus's assumption of circular orbits.

Question 5

Galileo's telescopic observation of moons orbiting Jupiter challenged which traditional belief?

Accepted Answer

That all celestial bodies revolve around the Earth

Answer

Moons clearly orbiting Jupiter showed that not everything in the heavens circles the Earth, which undermined the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic geocentric view. It supported the Copernican alternative.

AP Euro Practice Test

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AP Euro Absolutism, Science, and Enlightenment