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Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 16

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Quiz for Chapter 16: Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1715

Document Links:

Document 16-1: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Instructions/A Royal Ordinance

Document 16-2: The Trial of Charles I

Document 16-3: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Document 16-4: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government

Document 16-5: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin

Question 16.1

1. Based on Colbert’s instructions and the royal ordinance (Document 16-1), which of the following tactics did the French government use to enhance its influence in New France?

The French government segregated French settlers from native peoples.

The French government established local forms of government.

The French government promoted marriage and childbirth among settlers.

The French government supported commerce with native peoples.

Question 16.2

2. Why did King Charles I of England reject the authority of the court trying him for treason (Document 16-2)?

The court lacked popular support.

A king had no earthly superiors.

The court violated the English constitution.

The church alone could judge a king.

Question 16.3

3. How did Thomas Hobbes define Leviathan (Document 16-3)?

As a sovereign power instituted by popular consent

As the renunciation of the individual right to self-governance

As a monarchical government with elected officials

As human beings’ natural state of destruction and war

Question 16.4

4. What clearly distinguished Thomas Hobbes’s (Document 16-3) from John Locke’s (Document 16-4) views on the proper relationship between the individual and political authority?

Hobbes maintained that, by nature, the individual was superior to political authority, whereas Locke insisted political authority was superior to the individual.

Hobbes argued that political authority rested on divine right, while Locke believed political authority rested on the consent of individual citizens.

Hobbes believed that the individual retained his natural rights through majority rule, while Locke argued that political authority was absolute.

Hobbes asserted that political authority supplanted individual liberty, whereas Locke believed political authority should preserve it.

Question 16.5

5. According to the account of Stenka Razin’s revolt (Document 16-5), why was Razin able to defeat the tsar’s forces?

Razin and his soldiers were better armed.

The tsars’ soldiers defected in battle.

Razin and his soldiers conducted a sneak attack.

The tsars’ forces were poorly trained.