Absolutism & Constitutionalism unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Divine right of kings
Peter the Great
Balance of power
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Table of Ranks
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Glorious Revolution
Intendants
English Civil War
Constitutionalism
War of the Spanish Succession
Serfdom in eastern Europe
Short answer 1. Define or explain: John Locke, Two Treatises
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Versailles
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Oliver Cromwell
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsThis course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.
Document-Based Question (7 points). Evaluate the extent to which the First World War transformed European society and politics in the period from 1914 to 1929. Use the following document set. Document 1: British Ministry of Munitions report (1917) on the recruitment of nearly one million women into shell factories and engineering works. Document 2: Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (written 1917, published posthumously 1920), describing a gas attack and mocking the claim that dying for one’s country is sweet and fitting. Document 3: Order No. 1 of the Petrograd Soviet (March 1917), directing soldiers to elect committees and obey the Soviet rather than the Provisional Government in political matters. Document 4: Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), assigning responsibility to Germany and its allies for causing all loss and damage of the war. Document 5: German Reichsbank exchange-rate figures for 1923, showing the mark falling to over four trillion to the United States dollar. Document 6: Benito Mussolini, speech to the Fascist congress (1921), presenting fascism as the answer to parliamentary weakness and socialist disorder. Document 7: Representation of the People Act (Britain, 1918), extending the vote to all men over twenty-one and to women over thirty who met a property qualification.