Renaissance & Protestant Reformation Quiz

1) Johann Gutenberg contributed to the spread of information by improving

• telegraph

• telephone

• the process of movable

  type.

• the construction of

  railroads.

2) In Europe, the Crusades resulted in

• the strengthening of a

  society based on capitalism.

• increased demand for

  Asian and Middle Eastern goods.

• the weakening of the

  Catholic church in Southern Europe.

• the death of millions

  in Europe because of American diseases.

3) The Council of Trent of 1545 addressed the issues raised by Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers by

• reducing the literacy

  training of local priests.

• rejecting the seven

  sacraments set down by the early church.

• allowing political

  leaders to appoint religious leaders, such as bishops.

• encouraging new

  religious orders, such as the Jesuits, to set good examples.

“A controversy has arisen about this: whether it is better to be

loved than feared, or vice versa. My view is that it is desirable to be both

loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has

to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince, 1532

Which statement BEST explains the point of this passage from Machiavelli?

• people should rise up

  against tyrannical rulers

• leaders should be more

  in touch with the people

• democracy is the best

  form of national government

• absolute power is the

  surest and most effective way to rule

5) The teachings of Martin Luther sparked the

• Middle Ages.

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution.

• Protestant

  Reformation.

7) This post-medieval intellectual movement popularized by Petrarch and Erasmus stressed people's importance in the world and its ability to understand and solve most of the world's problems.

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Counter Reformation

• Protestant Reformation

8) Although the Crusades left relationships among Christians, Jews, and Muslims strained, one less destructive effect was the expansion of

• the feudal system into

  Muslim culture.

• trade into the

  Mediterranean and Middle Eastern areas.

• religious freedom in

  Mediterranean and Middle Eastern areas.

• religious boundaries

  from Europe to the Mediterranean cultures.

9) While both Italian and Northern Renaissance writers held humanist views, Northern Renaissance writers such as Desiderius Erasmus focused more on

• nature

• politics

• religion

• science

11) Which member of the feudal system was MOST tied to the land?

• blacksmith.

• farmer.

• king.

• serf.

12) In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei was convicted of heresy for claiming that Earth revolved around the Sun. This conviction was an example of

• the usage of the scientific

  method.

• Galileo's hatred for

  the Catholic Church.

• early conflicts

  between religion and science.

• the importance of the

  Protestant Reformation.