CHY4U Examination Review Questions

Part 1: KNOWLEDGE (True/False)

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.

____ 1. A woman in the Renaissance could only win honour by what she did not do.

____ 2. The values of most people who lived in early modern Europe have much in common with the culture
of today’s street gangs.

____ 3. The Canadian Constitution has a Lockeian view, rather than a Hobbesian view, through which
personal liberties and individual rights are ensured.

____ 4. Due to lower life expectancies, the median length of a seventeenth-century marriage was about 17
years.

____ 5. The nineteen-year-old Chevalier de la Barre was tortured and executed in 1768 for mocking a
religious procession, despite Voltaire’s strong objections.

____ 6. The ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a great impact on the radical leaders of the French
Revolution.

____ 7. One of the effects of the scientific revolution was to improve the quality of bread.

____ 8. The Estates-General was the parliamentary body in France that had veto power over taxation
proposed by the king.

____ 9. The treaty joining Russia and Germany in an alliance in 1887 was called the Reinsurance Treaty.

____ 10. Japan had been fighting a war in Asia for eight years before Germany invaded Poland.

Part 2: KNOWLEDGE Sentence Completion Complete each sentence or statement.

11. Unlike many religious artists of the time, Rembrandt was educated as a(n) _______________________.

12. While the French gathered in salons to discuss ideas, the _____________________________ served a similar
function in England during the eighteenth century.

13. Despite being a French citizen, Napoléon spoke ____________________ until he was eleven years old.

14. While it was being waged, until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, World War I was
called the Great War and it was also known as the “___________________________________________”.
 15. The concept of a brotherhood of all Slavic peoples was known as _____________________________.

16. The period from June 28, 1914 to August 4, 1914 is known as the _____________________________.

17. A form of “talking cure” used by Sigmund Freud was called __________________________________.

18. After its defeat, Hitler turned Poland into a _______________________________ state devoted to the needs
of the Third Reich.

19. The acronym for radio detecting and ranging is _____________________________.

20. The international insurance fund that stabilized world financial systems after World War II was the

___________________________________________.

Part 3: KNOWLEDGE Multiple Choice (Thirty questions @ one mark each = 30 marks)
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 21. Religion pervaded much of early modern European life in what way?
a. the celebration of holidays
b. the denial of Christ as the Son of God
c. the acceptance of non-Christian religions
d. all of the above

____ 22. According to information given in the text, in early modern Europe approximately how many projectile hits
from artillery pieces, such as bombards or cannons (that used gunpowder) did it take to create a breach (hole)
in the curtain wall of a stone castle?
a. 10
b. 100
c. 250
d. 500

____ 23. Rarely was an early modern European town without:

a. a torture wheel
b. a castle
c. a university
d. a wind mill
e. all of the above

____ 24. What book did the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V not keep by his bed?
a. the Book of the Courtier
 b. Mein Kampf
c. the Bible
d. The Prince

____ 25. Which was not a medieval institution in England?

a. law courts
b. Monarchy
c. Parliament
d. The Church of England

____ 26. When it was first published, Copernicus’s work, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, was placed on the
Roman Catholic Church’s
a. banned contents list
b. banned index list
c. banned books list
d. banned substances list

____ 27. Which English Stuart king was beheaded?

a. James I
b. James II
c. James VI
d. Charles I

____ 28. Which of the following countries did not establish overseas colonies during the eighteenth century?
a. England
b. France
c. Germany
d. Portugal

____ 29. Europe in the eighteenth century experienced rapid population growth due to:
a. increased immigration
b. improved medical practices
c. better child care practices
d. improved hygiene

____ 30. Which of the following developments supported the spread of literacy during the Enlightenment?
a. establishment of primary schools
b. publication of gazettes
c. salons held in the homes of the wealthy
d. all of the above

____ 31. The Marquise du Châtelet earned a reputation as:

a. a great intellectual
b. a flamboyant spender
c. Voltaire’s lover
d. the originator of the salon

____ 32. Catherine the Great was a paradox (a seeming contradiction) because:
a. she was a staunch Roman Catholic yet opposed the pope on several issues
 b. she supported free enterprise, but resisted free trade
c. she embraced Enlightenment ideas, but governed as a despotic ruler
d. she claimed to work in the interest of Russian heritage, yet brought in Western European
trends

____ 33. It is essential to consider purpose and audience when studying a work of art. Rococo art would most often
have been found in:
a. grand palaces of the aristocracy
b. churches
c. apartments in Paris
d. public buildings

____ 34. The French Revolution brought a permanent end to:

a. the Bourbon monarchy
b. the ancien régime
c. the National Assembly
d. woman suffrage

____ 35. When the abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès answered his own question: “What is the Third Estate?” he said:
a. the rightful rulers of France
b. the uneducated masses
c. everything
d. nothing

____ 36. The Bastille was seen as a symbol of the oppressive order of the ancien régime because it was:
a. the main office of the Royal Government of France
b. a jail where people were held without trial, often for attacks on the government
c. a storehouse of weapons
d. the site in which the executions of political prisoners took place

____ 37. Which of the following groups opposed a radical direction for the French Revolution and opposed extending
political rights to the working class?
a. Jacobins
b. Girondins
c. sans-culottes
d. all of the above

____ 38. Following his defeat in early 1814, Napoléon was exiled to:
a. St. Helena
b. Corsica
c. Elba
d. Malta

____ 39. Which of the following areas of private life was least affected by the French Revolution?
a. cuisine
b. clothing
c. hair styles
d. religion
____ 40. Which term was not used to describe fighting in World War I?
a. “over the top”
b. “bleed them white”
c. “live like rats”
d. “phoney war” or “sitzkrieg”

____ 41. All of the combatant nations of the First World War attempted to achieve victory by “breaking through” the
enemy defensive positions. Which of the following was not devised to achieve a breakthrough?
a. artillery bombardments
b. poison gases such as chlorine and phosgene
c. The Battle of the Somme (1916)
d. trenches

____ 42. World War I was a war of industrialization. Which nation was the last to feel the strain of the war on its
industrial capacity?
a. Austro-Hungarian Empire
b. German Empire
c. The Kingdom of Italy
d. Russian Empire

____ 43. What factor led Eastern European countries to become dictatorships?
a. weak economies
b. border disputes
c. minority problems
d. all of the above

____ 44. Which of the following European nations was not ruled by a dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s?
a. Lithuania
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Greece
d. Hungary

____ 45. Which of the following was not an example of Hitler breaking the Versailles Treaty?
a. Recruiting more than 100 000 officers and men into the German Armed Forces
{Wehrmacht (army); Kriegsmarine (Navy); Luftwaffe (air force)}
b. Building submarines (Unterseebooten: U-Boats)
c. occupying the Rhineland
d. holding plebiscites

____ 46. Where was the meeting held which organized the Final Solution?
a. Munich
b. Heidelberg
c. Wansee
d. Potsdam

____ 47. Which book is about events that happened in Poland during World War II?
a. Mila 18
b. Mein Kampf
 c. Cry the Beloved Country
d. The Wretched of the Earth

Part 4: APPLICATION Short Answer (

48. Why was Spain such a dominant force in Europe in the year 1600 CE.

49. Explain the relationship between the enclosure movement and the industrial revolution?

50. List and explain the events you feel most define Napoleon’s contribution to the French
Revolution. These may be either positive or negative contribution.

51. List and explain why the Nazis pursued the “Final Solution” for the Jews in Europe.

Part 5: COMMUNICATION Essay

52. What role did the Palace at Versailles play in the political and cultural life of France during
the reign of Louis XIV?

53. Explain whether you agree or disagree that the peace settlements of World War I were as
much about dismemberment as they were about self-determination.

54. You join your friends at a cafe in France in 1935. They are discussing why fascism might be a
good form of government. They are referring to Germany and Italy as examples. What might
they be saying and how would you respond?

55. You are a Canadian sailor on a troop carrier to France. Write a letter back to Canada
describing the events of June 6, 1944.