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

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 23 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 3” 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
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Balance of power

2

John Locke, Two Treatises

3

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

4

Intendants

5

Versailles

6

Dutch Republic

7

Peter the Great

8

Oliver Cromwell

9

Serfdom in eastern Europe

10

Absolutism

11

Constitutionalism

12

Glorious Revolution

Short answer 1. Define or explain: English Civil War

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Habsburg Austria

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Dutch Golden Age

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Divine right of kings

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

This 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.

Short-Answer Question. Answer (a), (b), and (c).

Briefly describe ONE specific reason the Protestant Reformation spread rapidly in the Holy Roman Empire after 1517.

Briefly explain ONE way secular rulers used the Reformation to increase their own power.

Briefly explain ONE way the Catholic Church responded to the Protestant challenge in the sixteenth century.