Sample test questions from previous years - Listed below are test questions from the past several years. Use them to help study. Keep in mind that the test is geared to evaluating how well you think using the ideas and history covered in the unit. When I grade test questions I will be looking for three things - identifying the "big ideas" embedded in the question, supporting those ideas with relevant historic evidence and explaining how the evidence is connected to the "big ideas".
On the test, you will have to answer two of the four questions on the test.
1. How did the work of the
writers of the Enlightenment show that the success of Enlightenment ideas about
society was dependent on spreading those ideas out to a larger population?
2. How were the ideas of the
Enlightenment in conflict with the Absolute Monarch model of government
typified by Louis XIV?
3. How did the results of the
Glorious Revolution demonstrate that Parliament had learned the lessons from
the English Civil War about the danger of overthrowing a monarch?
4. How did the work of Newton
and other scientists in the Scientific Revolution affect the way the thinkers
of the Enlightenment thought about how to improve society?
5. How did Enlightenment thinkers think that
restraining government power would actually improve society?
6. Using both examples from
England and the United States, how was the development of the “rule of law”
based on written documents?
7. How did the Scientific Revolution
involve developing a system for approaching problems that first showed that the
solar system and then later the universe worked according to a system of
natural laws?
8. How did the palace of
Versailles represent both the benefits and problems associated with Louis XIV’s
rule France as an absolute monarch?
