Instructions. Each quiz has one correct answer. Read the assignment and answer choices carefully.
1. Choose the correct answer.
Which of the following sources of energy became popular in Europe during the seventeenth century?
a) water c) coal
b) wind d) charcoal
2. Select the correct answer.
The main object of Portuguese colonization in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?
a) Africa c) North America
b) India d) South America
3. Read the statement carefully and answer the question asked. Choose the correct answer.
To which of the scientists and sailors of the late 15th century could these words belong: “Do not be surprised that I do not call the countries where spices grow west, when they are usually called east, because people sailing constantly to the west reach these countries by sailing on the other side of the globe …”
a) Paolo Toscanelli c) Bartolomeu Dias
b) Vasco da Gama d) Henry the Navigator
4. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
Which of the following reasons motivated the great Christian kings Ferdinand and Isabella to organize the maritime expedition of Christopher Columbus?
A) their desire to extend Christianity to people of other religions
B) rivalry with France for maritime supremacy
C) desire to clarify the shape of the Earth
D) desire for gold
E) desire to move Spanish peasants to new lands
F) rivalry with Portugal
Answer options. Which is the correct answer?
a) ABF b) ACD c) DEF d) ADF
5. Reconstruct the chronological sequence of events and choose the correct answer.
A) Magellan’s expedition
B) first expedition of Christopher Columbus
C) Vasco Da Gama Expedition
D) Bartolomeu Dias expedition
Answer options. Which is the correct answer?
- DBAC b) DBCA c) DABC d) ABDC
6. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
One of the main features of absolutism was the desire to
a) to strengthen feudal fragmentation
b) to transfer power to locally elected bodies
c) to annex the peripheral territories
d) to preserve the independence of the old feudal lords.
7. Read the judgment carefully and choose the correct answer.
What form of political authority is expressed in the following judgment of one king of England?
” It is the will of God that every born subject obey without reason.”
a) a republic
b) a class monarchy
c) unrestricted monarchy
d) constitutional monarchy
8. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
Which of the following was the main content of the economic policy of mercantilism?
A) the main form of wealth is in precious metals
B) to purchase and import goods from abroad
C) to take more goods out of the country than to bring in
D) the prosperity of the state depended on the abundance of valuable metals
E) to get rid of gold and silver coins, and to introduce paper money
F) not to develop domestic industry
Answer options. Which of the following answers is correct?
a) ABF b) ACD c) BEF d) CDE
9. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
Which of the following are signs of the beginnings of capitalism?
A) development of manufactures
B) crusades
C) increase in the number of wage-earners
D) subsistence economy
E) an increase in the number of entrepreneurs owning capital
E) the use of money in trade
Answer options. Which is the correct answer?
a) ABF b) BCE c) ACE d) CDF
10. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
Match the terms with their meanings.
| term | значение |
| A) day laborer | 1) a peasant who received land for temporary use |
| B) tenant | 2) new nobles |
| C) gentry | 3) businessman-capitalist |
| Г) буржуа | 4) A peasant who was driven off his land and turned it into sheep pasture |
| 5) a poor man who was hired as a day laborer (not as a regular laborer) |
Answer options. Write the correct answer.
a) A-5,B-1,C-2,D-3 b) A-1,B-5,C-2,D-3 c) A-4,B-1,C-5,D-3 d) A-5,B-4,C-1,D-2
11. Choose the correct answer.
The homeland of the Renaissance was.
a) England c) Germany
b) Spain d) Italy
12. Read the assignment carefully and choose the correct answer.
Which of the following statements form the basis of the humanists’ views?
A) belief in man and his capabilities
B) a desire to learn about the world around us
C) a belief in the value of life after death compared to life on earth
D) a recognition of the importance of science and art in a person’s life and the need for education
E) rejection of the pleasures and joys of secular life
F) denying a person’s ability to change his or her destiny
Answer options. Please state the correct answer.
a) ABF b) BEF c) CDE d) ABd
13. Choose the correct answer.
Which scientist revolutionized science by being the first to abandon the doctrine of the immobility of the Earth?
a) Giordano Bruno c) Nicolaus Copernicus
b) Galileo Galilei d) Isaac Newton
14. Answer 14: Please select the correct answer.
Which seventeenth-century great scientist is considered the founder of New Age philosophy?
a) John Locke c) William Harvey
b) René Descartes d) Galileo Galilei
15. Read the judgments carefully and choose the correct answer.
Make a correspondence between the following statements and their authors.
| Judgments | Authors |
| A) “And yet it spins!” | 1) Francis Bacon |
| B) “The best proof of all is experience. | |
| C) “I think, therefore I exist. | 2) René Descartes |
| D) “The universe has no edge; it is dimensionless and infinite.” | 3) Galileo Galilei |
| 4) Giordano Bruno | |
| 5) John Locke |
Answer options. Write the correct answer.
a) A-3,B-1,C-2,D-4 b) A-1,B-5,C-2,D-3 c) A-4,B-1,C-5,D-3 d) A-5,B-4,C-1,D-2
Keys
| Task | Answer |
| 1 | c |
| 2 | а |
| 3 | а |
| 4 | d |
| 5 | b |
| 6 | c |
| 7 | c |
| 8 | b |
| 9 | c |
| 10 | а |
| 11 | d |
| 12 | d |
| 13 | c |
| 14 | b |
| 15 | а |
