Unit 1 Section 3

Italy during the Renaissance is best described as

• an important center of trade.

• a secondary place for trade.

• an ally of the Ottoman Empire

• an opponent of the Ottoman Empire.

In addition to patronage, merchant families during the Renaissance began to

• educate their sons.

• practice new religion

• establish new businesses.

• hide their wealth.

During the Renaissance, applying humanist ideas to government meant that people began to

• support government more.

• support government less.

• debate about government.

• hold elections for government.

In Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes uses the story of a man who dresses as a knight to explore

• military strength.

• government corruption.

• human nature.

• human suffering.

What slowed the spread of the Italian Renaissance across Europe?

• poverty

• famine

• disease

• flooding

An increased demand for books during the 1500s meant that

• fewer books were written in the vernacular.

• more books were written in the vernacular.

• fewer people read classical works

• more people read Chinese works.

Why did John Calvin write the Institutes of the Christian Religion?

• to refute the teachings of Martin Luther

• to defend a king’s right to an annulment

• to support the practices of the Catholic Church

• to explain the Reformation and Protestant beliefs

In the 1500s, the Council of Trent was led by a group of

• Lutheran ministers who wanted to spread their ideas.

• Catholic cardinals who wanted to reform the Church.

• German princes who wanted to end a peasants’ rebellion.

• Calvinists who wanted to make laws that followed their beliefs.

A religious heretic was known as

• a Catholic priest charged with converting others to Catholicism.

• a person who tried to convert others to his or her religion.

• an organization that punished those who did not follow Catholicism.

• a person who held beliefs going against the teachings of a church.