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Prologue: The Rise of Democratic Ideas (Print Quiz)

1.

The greatest and most lasting political legacy of Rome was

 

(A)

its written legal code

 

(B)

the aristocracy

 

(C)

the idea of citizenship

 

(D)

democracy

  

2.

A belief shared by monotheistic religions that helped shape democratic ideas was

 

(A)

the existence of life after death

 

(B)

the importance of reason

 

(C)

the worth of the individual

 

(D)

the personal relationship between God and humans

  

3.

The result of the Glorious Revolution was

 

(A)

the Habeas Corpus Amendment Act

 

(B)

constitutional monarchy

 

(C)

the Magna Carta

 

(D)

the English Civil War

  

4.

The most immediate source of Enlightenment thought was

 

(A)

the Glorious Revolution

 

(B)

the Renaissance

 

(C)

the Protestant Reformation

 

(D)

the Scientific Revolution

  

5.

One reason the French Revolution did not establish a democratic society is

 

(A)

its leaders did not write a constitution

 

(B)

other European countries went to war with France

 

(C)

individual rights were not protected

 

(D)

there was no representative government

  
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