Most Missed Test Questions Units 2, 4, 5, & 6

Which aspect of the Renaissance is shown in this information about Florence?

The welling up of civic pride that overflowed in public building was brought on by that remarkable course of events from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning
of the fifteenth century that transformed the Florentine state . . . During the century and a half at the building of the town hall and ending at the crowning of the cathedral with Brunelleschi’s cupola, Florence put its internal affairs into an impressive new order . . . and asserted itself as a major Italian power

• A rising power of artists

• B economic prosperity of city-states

• C new techniques in religious sculpture

• D increased use of the vernacular languages

Which result completes this list?

Immediate Effects of the Renaissance
• Revival of trade
• Emergence of cities
• Rise of banks and joint-stock companies

•________________________________________

• A Creation of a social class hierarchy

• B Establishment of the manor system

• C Voyages of exploration and colonization

• D Increase in the authority of a single church

Use the list below to answer the question.

Characteristics of the Renaissance

• Cultural achievements were financed by cities.
• Classical texts and art were valued and studied.
• ?

• A Kings gave authority to religious leaders

• B People chose to enter monasteries

• C Legislative bodies began to tax churches

• D People embraced secular ideas

This model of the universe was put forth by which scholar?

• A Isaac Newton
  

• B Galileo Galilei
  

• C Ptolemy

• D Nicolaus Copernicus
  

Use the list below to answer the question.

Causes of _____________?

• Expansion of trade
• Challenges in navigation
• Interest in classical texts and art
• Expansion of universities

What best completes this list?

• A European Exploration
  

• B Political Reform in the Americas

• C Scientific Innovations
  

• D Economic Reforms
  

Which of the following statements are True about Peter the Great? 

• promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• didn't believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that enlightened monarchy was best

• thought that humans were naturally greedy and chaotic and would need a large government to control them

• demonstrated absolutism by building the city Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

The principle of separation of the state from religious institutions is a major concept from which Enlightenment thinker?

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who was the formerly enslaved leader of the Haitian Revolution?

• Toussaint L’Ouverture

• Simón Bolívar

• José de San Martín

• Miguel Hidalgo

Which goal did these revolutions have in common?

• to eliminate monarchical government

• to end aristocratic control of commerce

• to create a government to protect individual rights

• to inspire rebellions in distantterritories of the world

Saint-Domingue (Haiti) was a colony of what country?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Portugal