APEH Practice Exam 1 Part 1

Which of the following best characterizes Renaissance humanists?

• They rejected Christian perspectives.

• They concentrated on the study of humans from a biological perspective.

• They rejected writers from the pre-Christian period.

• They emphasized rhetoric based on classical models.

• They maintained the principles of medieval Scholasticism.

Which of the following roles was most socially acceptable for an educated woman in Renaissance Europe?

• Accountant

• Sculptor

• Biblical scholar

• Political adviser

• Patron of the arts

Calvinist opposition to Spanish rule in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century took all of the following forms EXCEPT

• the destruction of religious images in Roman Catholic churches

• increased efforts to convert people to Protestantism

• attempts to assasinate Philip II

• demonstrations against the executions of heretics

• civil war between Roman Catholics and Protestants

In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin sought to

• answer the Roman Catholic Church's doctrinal reforms formulated at the Council of Trent

• systematize Protestant doctrine as the basis for a reformed Christianity

• challenge the growing political authority of kings through the articulation of a theory of political resistance

• promote a dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church

• raise the cultural level of Europeans by supporting universal schooling

Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists condemned Anabaptists for their

• belief in church-state separation

• support for infant baptism

• secular outlook on the world

• support for papal supremacy

• use of magic to achieve religious reform

The goals of Protestant princes in Germany before 1555 included the

• abolition of the Holy Roman Empire

• achievement of religious toleration for all German people

• recognition of Lutheranism as a legitimate form of religion

• extension of Protestantism to all of Europe

• economic and commercial unity of the German states

In the mid-1400s, Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted with some degree of toleration in

• England

• France

• Spain

• the Holy Roman Empire

• the Kingdom of Naples

Copernicus' primary contribution to the Scientific Revolution was his theory of

• elliptical planetary orbits

• the universal law of gravitation

• the principle of inertia

• a geocentric universe

• a heliocentric universe

How did subsequent French monarchs view the Edict of Nantes, issued by Henry IV of France in 1598 ?

• As sinful, because it undermined the Protestant faith

• As dangerous, because it established a state within the state

• As useful, because it separated church and state

• Unfavorably, because it gave the papacy control over the French church hierarchy

• Favorably, because it unified state and church

Which of the following was a major factor in the spread of humanist culture in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

• The creation of new religious orders by the papacy

• Annual meetings of humanist scholars in Italy

• A major increase in government funding for elementary education

• The development of the printing press

• The sale of basic textbooks written in the vernacular