Review for Quiz on Reformation

Review for Quiz on Reformation

In the Feudal System

• Peasants worked the land for knights and vassals.

• Knights gave land and protection to peasants for their food and services in return.

• Nobles gave lands for the knights to live on and make off the lands in return for miltary service.  

• The King gave lands and titles to nobles for money and military service.

Multiple Choice

According to the diagram which statement is true?

• Kings gave peasants food and services for their loyalty.

• Nobles gave knights money for land.

• Knights gave land and protection to peasants for their food and services in return.

Multiple Choice

Before the Renaissance, many people looked to whom as the most important source of power and guidance?

• The Catholic Church

• The Nobles

• The Knights

Multiple Choice

The Catholic Church often sold papers called Indulgences. These papers were said to...

• Allow the owner to speak to God.

• Allow the owner to sin whenever he or she wanted without consequence.

• Give the owner forgiveness of all past sins.

Multiple Choice

All Christians who broke away from the Catholic Church were known as...

• Lutherans

• Protestants

• Baptists

Multiple Choice

According to the map, which country remained a Catholic nation after the Reformation?

• England

• France

Facts about the Black Death

• One of the worst pandemics in history

• Claimed more than 25 million people.

• Spread by infected fleas.

• Once someone in a village was infected, people could not leave.

• Helped bring an end to feudalism.  

Multiple Choice

July 15, 1348 “The Black Death has come to our village. Thomas, the blacksmith’s son, died last night only hours after the first black spots appeared on his body. Lord Piers, our landowner, has ordered that no one is to enter or leave the village. He hopes this will save the lives of the people in the surrounding countryside. However, for us there is no escape.”

What is the central idea of the journal entry above from a person living during the Black Death?

• It provides a date for the readers.

• It shows that people could not leave or enter villages that were stricken.

• It creates compassion in the reader.

Renaissance Facts

• Means Rebirth 

• followed the Middle Ages

• characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values.

• witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents

• the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy

• the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce

• and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, the mariner’s compass, and gunpowder

Multiple Choice

What was the importance of the invention of Johann Gutenberg’s printing press during the Reformation?

• It led to the spread of ideas in large amounts in a short period of time

• t led to the mass exodus of people out of Europe due to fear

• It caused the Catholic church to be infuriated over newly printed Bibles

Multiple Choice

The Renaissance idea of humanism celebrated the capabilities and accomplishments of mankind rather than...

• The church

• The king

• The people

The Medici Family

• first attained wealth and political power in Florence in the 13th century through its success in commerce and banking

• the family’s support of the arts and humanities made Florence into the cradle of the Renaissance

• four family members became Pope

• two family members became Queens

Multiple Choice

In Renaissance Italy, which wealthy family became a significant patron of the arts in Florence, Italy?

• The Medici Family

• The Da Vinci family

• The Columbus family

Niccolò Machiavelli

(born May 3, 1469, Florence, Italy—died June 21, 1527, Florence), Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic, whose most famous work, The Prince (Il Principe), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.

Multiple Choice

What did Machiavelli mean by this quotation in his Renaissance time period literary work, The Prince?

• A ruler who is loved will have the ultimate control

• People love leaders who rule with strict rules

• People are less likely to betray a leader if they fear him