Humanities Hexter Pre-Test: Renaissance and Reformation

Renaissance ideas first took hold in what is now the country of _____.

• Portugal

• Italy

• Spain

• Great Britain

A (n) ____ was a wealthy merchant or banker who supported artistic activity.

• donor

• aristocrat

• patron

• oligarch

____ was a scientist, a writer, a philosopher, an engineer, an inventor, and an artist.

• Prince Henry

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Martin Luther

• Leonardo da Vinci

The development of ____ and the printing press helped to spread new ideas of the Renaissance quickly throughout Europe.

• the written language

• movable type

• word processing

• caravels

The Italian scientist _____ proved Copernicus's theory that the Earth revolves around the sun.

• Galileo

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Leonardo da Vinci

The plan of Ferdinand and Isabell to make Spain a completely Catholic country was called the _____.

• Catholic Project

• Reconquista

• Catholic Renewal

• Inquisition

Many peasants were forced off the land when the landlords decided to raise _____.

• cattle

• rent

• sheep

• goats

To pay for the rebuilding of Saint Peter's Church in Rome, Pope Leo X sold _____.

• real estate

• relics

• indulgences

• artifacts

____ protested the idea that forgiveness for sins could be bought with money.

• Martin Luther

• Galileo

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

Europeans lost control of a crossroads of trade when the Ottoman Turks took over the city of _____.

• Cairo

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Paris