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Fiveable has 6,808 AP World History: Modern multiple-choice practice questions across 9 units, plus 2,026 stimulus-based question sets built around a source. Practice one unit or topic at a time.

  • Unit 1 – The Global Tapestry (1200-1450): 994 multiple-choice questions, 43 stimulus sets
  • Unit 2 – Networks of Exchange (1200-1450): 929 multiple-choice questions, 116 stimulus sets
  • Unit 3 – Land-Based Empires (1450-1750): 206 multiple-choice questions, 39 stimulus sets
  • Unit 4 – Transoceanic Interconnections (1450-1750): 1,040 multiple-choice questions, 380 stimulus sets
  • Unit 5 – Revolutions (1750-1900): 855 multiple-choice questions, 272 stimulus sets
  • Unit 6 – Consequences of Industrialization (1750-1900): 672 multiple-choice questions, 607 stimulus sets
  • Unit 7 – Global Conflict (1900-Present): 616 multiple-choice questions, 253 stimulus sets
  • Unit 8 – Cold War & Decolonization (1900-Present): 785 multiple-choice questions, 202 stimulus sets
  • Unit 9 – Globalization: 1900 to Today: 711 multiple-choice questions, 114 stimulus sets

Sample AP World History: Modern practice question

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King Louis XIV of France, Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685.

We perceive, with thankful acknowledgment of God's aid, that the majority of our subjects who followed the Protestant religion have now embraced the Catholic faith. And therefore . . . we have determined that we can do nothing better, in order to obliterate the memory of the troubles, the confusion, and the evils which this false religion has caused in this kingdom than entirely to revoke the Edict of Nantes, as well as all that has since been done in favor of the said religion. . . . We forbid our subjects of the Protestant religion, to meet any more for the exercise of the said religion in any place or private house, under any pretext whatsoever. We enjoin all ministers of the said religion who do not choose to become converts and to embrace the Catholic religion to leave our Kingdom within two weeks of the publication of our present edict, without permission to reside therein beyond that period, or, during that period, to engage in any preaching, on pain of being sent to the galleys. . . .

Louis XIV's framing of the Edict of Fontainebleau as an act of national healing rather than religious coercion most directly reflects which of the following about his historical situation?

His need to legitimize sweeping state power by presenting religious uniformity as beneficial to the realm rather than merely an exercise of absolute authority

Correct answer

The widespread religious tolerance that characterized French society in the late 17th century, which required the king to justify any restrictions on Protestant worship

The influence of Enlightenment philosophy, which demanded that monarchs justify all policies through rational argument rather than simple assertion of divine right

The recent military victories that had strengthened France's international position and enabled the king to pursue more aggressive domestic religious policies

Explanation

The correct answer requires synthesizing Louis's rhetorical framing ('obliterate the memory of troubles,' lines 2-4) with the reality of coercive enforcement (exile, galley sentences, lines 8-12) to infer that he must justify extraordinary state power through language of national benefit. The historical situation of early modern absolutism created pressure to legitimize unprecedented state intervention in religious matters through appeals to collective welfare rather than mere assertion of authority. Distractors are eliminated by: A—the stimulus indicates Protestant decline, not widespread tolerance; B—the document reflects Counter-Reformation ideology and absolutist consolidation, not Enlightenment rationalism; C—military context is absent from the stimulus and irrelevant to the religious justification presented.

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