Question 1
How did Frederick William the Great Elector build Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power?
a. He established religious uniformity in his kingdom, as evidenced in his eviction of the Huguenots.
b. He freed the peasants from the dominion of the nobles.
c. He worked through an elected assembly whenever possible.
d. He made the General War Commissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state.
e. He allied Prussia with England and Russia against France and the Holy Roman Empire.
Question 2
Calvin presented God as
a. primarily reachable through mysticism.
b. a loving, gentle father.
c. infinitely forgiving.
d. both Father and Mother to humanity.
e. as omnipotent, frightening being who hated sin and demanded absolute obedience.