World History Pretest
  • 1. What type of government did Napoleon establish in France
A) Revolutionaries
B) Convention
C) Assembly
D) Consulate
  • 2. What system has workers repeat the same task repeatedly.
A) Assembly Line
B) Cottage Industry
C) Indentured Servitude
D) Bessemer Process
  • 3. Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?
A) Toussaint L'Ouverture
B) George Washington
C) Napoleon
D) Simon Bolivar
  • 4. Who wrote the Declaration of Indepence
A) Samuel Adams
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) Thomas Jefferson
  • 5. How was Russia able to defeat Napoleon?
A) Scorched Earth
B) One decisive battle
C) Continental System
D) Blockades
  • 6. Who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution?
A) Working Class
B) Farmers
C) Nobility
D) Middle Class
  • 7. Who was the founder of Buddhism?
A) Jesus
B) Abraham
C) Siddhartha
D) Muhammad
  • 8. Who was the founder of Christianity?
A) Abraham
B) Jesus
C) Muhammad
D) Siddhartha
  • 9. Who was the founder of Judaism?
A) Jesus
B) Abraham
C) Siddhartha
D) Muhammad
  • 10. Who was the founder of Islam?
A) Jesus
B) Abraham
C) Sidhartha
D) Muhammad
  • 11. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs?
A) Francisco Pizarro
B) Hidalgo
C) Hernan Cortes
D) Juan Ponce De Leon
  • 12. Which Spanish explorer conquered the Inca's?
A) Magellan
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Hernan Cortes
D) Prince Henry
  • 13. What sailor was first to circumnavigate the world?
A) Cortes
B) Pizarro
C) Magellan
D) Columbus
  • 14. Who started the Protestant Reformation?
A) Gregory X
B) Leo V
C) John Locke
D) Martin Luther
  • 15. Who started the Church of England?
A) Henry VIII
B) Gregory X
C) Leo III
D) Charlemagne
  • 16. This city was the main trade hub between East and West
A) Constantinople
B) Venice
C) Ankara
D) Rome
  • 17. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A) Donatello
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael
D) Da Vinci
  • 18. This term means rebirth.
A) Indulgence
B) Renaissance
C) Purgatory
D) Heresy
  • 19. A government that is run by a religion is called...
A) Dictatorship
B) Theocracy
C) Monarchy
D) Democracy
  • 20. This powerful family was the richest in the world during the Renaissance.
A) Machiavelli
B) Medici
C) Bourbon
D) Caesar
  • 21. This city was at the center of the Italian Renaissance.
A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Venice
D) Milan
  • 22. Famous scientist who argued the sun was the center of the universe, not earth.
A) Galileo
B) Leonidas
C) Pope Gregory X
D) Prince Henry
  • 23. This scientist invented Calculus to prove his theories
A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Herodotus
D) Galileo
  • 24. City in Germany where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses
A) Wittenberg
B) Frankfurt
C) Munich
D) Berlin
  • 25. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by who?
A) Raphael
B) Da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Donatello
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