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To the Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Testing Students Who Do Not Test Well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Test-Taking Strategies for Power Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Pretest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Unit 1 Test: A Rebirth in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Unit 2 Test: Asia and the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Unit 3 Test: European Exploration and the New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Unit 4 Test: Europe Colonizes the Globe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Unit 5 Test: New Ideas Lead to Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Unit 6 Test: The Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Unit 7 Test: Nationalism and Social Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Unit 8 Test: Imperialsim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Posttest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Student Record-Keeping Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Strategies for Standardized Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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WORLD HISTORY II • PRETEST
Circle the letter of the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. What does renaissance mean?
a. “humanism”
b. “rebirth”
c. “to paint”
d. “to close”
2. Where did the Renaissance begin?
a. France
b. Italy
c. Germany
d. Spain
3. Who was the first humanist painter?
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
c. Giotto
d. Boccaccio
4. What field did Copernicus work in?
a. business
b. literature
c. art
d. science
5. What German man developed the methods of modern printing?
a. Johannes Kepler
b. Johannes Gutenberg
c. Tycho Brahe
d. Leonardo da Vinci
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UNIT 4 TEST • EUROPE COLONIZES THE GLOBE
Circle the letter of the correct answer the each of the following questions.
1. What were East Indiamen?
a. people in the New World
b. spices
c. ships
d. a group of explorers
2. What were galleons?
a. government officials
b. ships
c. spices
d. Spanish explorers
3. What nation governed its settlements in the New World through viceroys?
a. Portugal
b. Spain
c. the Netherlands
d. England
4. What is the term for the tendency to view one’s own culture as the best?
a. humanism
b. racism
c. cultural exchange
d. ethnocentrism
5. What nation built missions in the New World?
a. Portugal
b. Spain
c. the Netherlands
d. England
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21. Which of the following was an important African trade good?
a. ivory
b. gold
c. slaves
d. all of the above
22. In the triangular trade, what was brought to Africa?
a. cotton
b. cheap manufactured goods
c. sugar (rum)
d. tobacco
23. In the triangular trade, what was brought to America?
a. slaves
b. cotton
c. sugar (rum)
d. cheap manufactured goods
24. In the triangular trade, what was brought to Europe?
a. tobacco
b. cheap manufactured goods
c. slaves
d. all of the above
25. What is Europeanization?
a. the travels of European traders
b. a European trading station
c. the process of people from around the world moving to Europe
d. the worldwide spread of European influence
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WORLD HISTORY II • POSTTEST
Circle the letter of the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. When was the Renaissance?
a. 500 to 1000
b. 1492
c. 1300 to 1600
d. 1600 to 1800
2. Along with Boccaccio, who is called “the first humanist”?
a. Raphael
b. Petrarch
c. Giotto
d. Michelangelo
3. What Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
a. Raphael
b. Giotto
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Michelangelo
4. Who is called “the father of printing and publishing”?
a. Johannes Gutenberg
b. Galileo Galilei
c. Andreas Vesalius
d. Nicolaus Copernicus
5. Who put forth the idea that planetary orbits are elliptical?
a. Galileo Galilei
b. Nicolaus Copernicus
c. Johannes Kepler
d. Tycho Brahe
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