Option 1 Part 1
- In contrast to traditional industrial society:
1) the individual is suppressed by society
2) a market economy prevails
3) agrarian production predominates
4) increasing dependence on the forces of nature
- As a result of the development of industrial civilization
a social class emerges:
1) wage laborers 3) educators 2) artisans 4) peasants
- Which of the following thinkers are among the French Enlighteners of the 18th century?
A) John Locke B) Voltaire
C) Rene Descartes D) Charles Montesquieu
D) Jean Jacques Rousseau E) Francis Bacon
Specify the correct answer.
1)ABD 2) CDE 3) ACD 4) BDE
- The outcome of the revolution in England was:
1) establishment of a parliamentary monarchy
2) complete abolition of feudal obligations
3) abolition of the House of Lords of the English Parliament
4) conversion of peasants to full landowners
- The aggravation of the Eastern question is connected with:
1) the strengthening of Italy’s position in the Mediterranean
2) the decline of the Ottoman Empire
3) the transformation of England into a ruler of the seas
4) expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Apennine Peninsula
- The 18th-century Pan-European War, in the course of which the Russian army took Berlin, was called:
1) Northern 2) Hundred Years’ War 3) Seven Years’ War 4) Thirty Years’ War
- In a factory, unlike a manufactory,:
1) labor productivity was higher
2) a small number of workers worked
3) there was no specialization
4) manual labour prevailed.
- According to the U.S. Constitution, the legislative branch of government belongs to:
1) the king
3) president
2) Congress
4) state governor.
- When was the following document created?
All men are created equal and endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We, therefore, assembled in general congress, declare in the name and on behalf of the people, that these colonies… are exempted from subjection to the British Crown.
1) in 1588. 3) in 1776.
2) in 1649. 4) in 1791.
- The name “coup de 9 Thermidor” means:
1) the adoption of the new revolutionary calendar
2) establishment of Napoleon Bonaparte’s power
3) overthrow of the Jacobin dictatorship
4) Beginning of the Reformation
- The history of the Great French Revolution includes the concept of:
1) Geuze 2) Luddism 3) Long Parliament 4) Jacobin Terror
- The common cause of all New Age bourgeois revolutions is the desire to destroy
1) the system of slavery 2) the shop system in the cities
3) political fragmentation of the country 4) feudal obligations and restrictions
- Explain the terms: revolution, monopoly, colony, Enlightenment
Part 2
В1. Make a sentence from the given words:
new, rights, and, foundations, traditions, meant, citizen, man, France, and, victory, proclaimed, the, Declaration, of, rights, of, the, order, over, the, old, political, order.
В2. Match
The concept of |
Definition |
A) Chartism |
1) a movement to abolish slavery |
B) caudillism |
2) the electoral reform movement |
B) abolitionism |
3) the anti-war movement |
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4) Dictatorial power established by a small group of ruling classes |
В3. Which event is the one in question? The king had been watching the mathematical precise, inexorable advance of his armies since ten o’clock. The troops marched on and on along their planned paths, completing the encirclement, closing step by step the wall of men and cannon around Sedan.
Option 2 Part 1
- In industrial society, in contrast to traditional society:
1) a state of law is formed
2) emergence of craft production
3) subsistence economy prevails
4) strengthens the religious worldview
- As a result of the development of industrial civilization, a social class emerges:
1) bourgeoisie 3) peasants 2) feudal lords 4) townspeople
- Correlate the names of the creators of artistic culture with the titles of the works.
NAMES OF WORKS
A) Jonathan Swift 1) The Marriage of Figaro
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2) Gulliver’s Travels
C) Jacques Louis David 3) Le nozze di Figaro
D) Pierre Beaumarchais 4) The Oath of Horace
5) The Moonlight Sonata
- A major role in the political life of the United States was played by:
1) Benjamin Franklin 3) Jean Calvin 2) Oliver Cromwell 4) James Watt
- In the form of the War of Independence in the 18th century, the bourgeois revolution took place in:
1) in the Netherlands 3) in England 2) in France 4) in the United States
- State the date of the Thirty Years’ War:
1) 1618-1648. 2) 1701-1714. 3) 1740-1748. 4) 1566-1673.
- If an industrial enterprise uses the labor of hired workers, it is called:
1) advanced 2) capitalistic 3) centralized
4) artisanal
- The mode of government of a state in which the government is
accountable to a representative body rather than to the king is called:
1) protectorate 2) absolute monarchy
3) limited monarchy 4) parliamentary republic
- Under the U.S. Constitution, the executive branch of government belongs to:
1) Congress
2) president
3) governor
4) Supreme Court
- Which event is referred to in the excerpt from the document?
The main spring of royal power was broken on July 14, or ,
at least, it was so damaged on that day that it
it was no longer possible for it ever to act again.
1) The taking of the Bastille.
2) the issuance of the decree on the “suspicious”
3) the resignation of the Comptroller of the Treasury, Jacques Thurgot
4) Napoleon’s dispersal of the Legislative Assembly
- The history of the Great French Revolution includes the concept of:
1) the guillotine 2) the protector 3) the Boston Tea Party 4) the iconoclastic movement
- During the New Age, the republican system was established in:
1) Great Britain 3) Japan 2) Spain 4) the United States
- Explain the terms: expansion, union, rule of law, metropolis
Part 2
В1. Make a sentence from the given words:
against, rich, was, army, as , George Washington, in charge of, entrusted to, regular, Virginian, he, had, experience, of, action, Indians, creation, planter, military, and the French.
В2. Make the correspondence
A) Militarism |
1) the use by officials of their position for the purpose of enrichment |
B) authoritarianism |
2) a political regime based on unquestioning submission to authority |
B) radicalism |
3) views and actions aimed at a radical change of the existing order by means of drastic measures |
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4) increasing the military power of the state, subordinating all sides to vital goals |
Q3.What is the name of the international congress referred to in the excerpt.
When the “Corsican monster” was finally. securely imprisoned, a…great congress of large and small despots was immediately convened to divide the looted goods and gratuities and to ascertain to what extent the pre-revolutionary state of affairs could be restored. Nations were bought and sold, divided and united, based on what suited the interests and intentions of their rulers more.”
Option 1
1-2
2-1
3- 4
4-1
5-2
6- 4
7-1
8- 2
9- 3
10- 3
11- 4
12- 4
13-
Q1- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed the foundations of France’s new political order and signified the victory of law over the traditions of the old order.
Q2-a2; b4; c1.
B3- The Franco-Prussian War.
Option 2
1- 1
2- 1
3- A-2, B-5, C-4, D-1
4- 1
5- 4
6-1
7- 2
8- 4
9- 2
10- 1
11- 1
12- 4
13-
Q1- The creation of a regular army was entrusted to the wealthy Virginian planter George Washington because he had experience in warfare against the Indians and the French.
Q2-a4; b2; c3
B3- The Congress of Vienna