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World History Semester 1 Practice Exam

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Question 1

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What did Geoffery Chacer write?
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  • Canterbury Tales
  • The Prince
  • The Three Ladies
  • The 5th Wave

Question 2

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What did Dante Alighieri write?
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  • Canterbury Tales
  • Divine Comedy
  • The Three Ladies
  • All the Bright Places

Question 3

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Pope Gregory VII is...
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  • the one who excommunicated Henry IV over lay investiture
  • Called for the Crusades against Muslims in the holy land
  • Created Benedictine Rule
  • Ate a turkey that wasn't his

Question 4

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Where did the Pope reside for 70 years?
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  • Venice
  • Paris
  • Avignon
  • Wisconsin

Question 5

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Which was not a part of Benedictine Rule
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  • Charity
  • Chastity
  • Poverty

Question 6

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The Franks became Christian under their King
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  • Clovis
  • Pepin
  • Charles Martel
  • Charlemagne

Question 7

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Christine de Pizan's The City of Women argued that
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  • men should marry older women
  • men and women have equal talent
  • women are more talented than men
  • women should be elected to political office

Question 8

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Which of the following was NOT an important effect of Charlemagne's coronation
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  • Church-State relations became more complex than ever
  • It deepened the split between eastern and western Christianity
  • Popes could now claim that they were arbiters of European affairs
  • It illustrated the power that the emperor had over the pope

Question 9

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In 1607, the English established their first permanent colony in the Americas at...
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  • Quebec, Canada
  • Jamestown, VA
  • Plymouth, MA
  • Philadelphia, PA

Question 10

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What method did Afonso de Albuquerque use to establish Portuguese outposts in India?
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  • He drove Dutch traders from key coastal towns
  • He burned coastal towns and destroyed Arab fleets
  • He pitted Indian princes against one another
  • He allied himself with the Dutch East India Company

Question 11

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What did the Spanish do in their effort to gain control of the Incas?
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  • They tried to bribe the Incas with horses
  • They offered to share their profits from gold
  • They captured the Inca ruler
  • They destroyed the Inca capital

Question 12

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Under the Tang and Song dynasties, China's two main classes were
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  • the priests and the peasantry
  • the samurai and the artisans
  • the priests and the merchants
  • the gentry and the peasantry

Question 13

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The Mongol rulers of China
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  • expelled both Muslims and Christians from China
  • gave most high government jobs to the Chinese
  • allowed only Mongols to serve in the military
  • ended contacts between Europe and Asia

Question 14

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Hagia Sophia belonged to...
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  • Eastern Christianity
  • Western Christianity

Question 15

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Who built Constantinople?
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  • Justinian
  • Constantine
  • John I
  • Frederick Barbarossa

Question 16

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What were the earliest Russian cities?
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  • Novgorod and Kiev
  • Kiev and Moscow
  • Moscow and St. Petersburg
  • Kiev and St. Petersburg

Question 17

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Who showed rulers the power of China via sea exploration?
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  • Marco Polo
  • Zheng He
  • Taizong
  • Henry II

Question 18

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Who was the most important Tang ruler?
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  • Taizong
  • Quetzacoatl
  • Zheng He

Question 19

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Where were the missionaries from that intro ducted Buddhism?
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  • Italy
  • Japan
  • China
  • Korea

Question 20

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What was an effect of the Hundred Years' War?
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  • Trade and manufacturing declined throughout Europe
  • The loss of English lands shattered French dreams of empire building
  • English rulers turned to new trading ventures overseas
  • The war helped to ensure that the feudal system would continue

Question 21

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Magana Carta was a famous document England, which
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  • Set up the Parliament
  • limited the powers of the king
  • increased the power of the French monarchy
  • ended serfdom

Question 22

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This country had a large number of Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages
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  • France
  • England
  • Italy
  • Spain

Question 23

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In 1122, the treaty called the Concordat of Worms gave the Chruch the sole power to
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  • invest bishops with fiefs
  • prevent bishops from accepting government jobs
  • elect and invest bishops with spiritual authority
  • elect the next pope

Question 24

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Why did science make little real progress in Europe during the Middle Ages
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  • the study of science was banned from medieval universities
  • most scholars believed that all knowledge must fit with Church teachings
  • Translations of Greek science texts still had not reached medieval Europe
  • There weren't enough brilliant European minds during that time

Question 25

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Edward I was a
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  • Protestant
  • Catholic

Question 26

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Lady Jane Grey was a
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  • Protestant
  • Catholic

Question 27

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BLANK was when the Catholic Church wen t on the offensive and spoke out against Luther
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  • Counter Reformation
  • Catholic Reformation

Question 28

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BLANKS teachings were rediscovered by Renaissance scientists
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  • Aristotle
  • Galileo
  • Plato
  • Isaac Newton

Question 29

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BLANK are led by elected councils
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  • Lutherans
  • Calvanists
  • Catholics

Question 30

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BLANK focus on hard work and discipline
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  • Lutherans
  • Calvanists
  • Catholics
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