Unit 3: Absolutism & Constitutionalism
Euro History · Unit 3 · Paper 2

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.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 33 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
1

New Model Army

2

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

3

Pragmatic Sanction (1713)

4

Junkers

5

Louis XIV

6

Frederick William, the Great Elector

7

Habsburg Austria

8

Versailles

9

Intendants

10

Bossuet and divine-right theory

11

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

12

The Fronde (1648–1653)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Glorious Revolution

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Absolutism

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Dutch Golden Age

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION. No stimulus.

A. Briefly describe one method used by seventeenth-century monarchs to strengthen royal authority.

B. Briefly explain one way the English experience of the seventeenth century differed from that of France.

C. Briefly explain one economic policy adopted by European states in the seventeenth century and its intended purpose.