Unit 2 Test (C)

What was an important effect of the invention of the printing press?

• It increased literacy.
• Gutenberg used his wealth from the invention to support artists
• It decreased literacy
• It led to a renewed study of the Latin language

How did Italy's location help it become the birthplace of the Renaissance?

• Italy was protected from the rest of Europe by the Alps.
• Italy was the birthplace of democracy
• Italy had access to Roman ruins and ancient manuscripts which inspired artists.
• The bubonic plague had not reached the southern tip of Europe.

What kind of person represented the ideal of the "Renaissance man"?

• someone who excelled in many areas of study
• someone who supported and appreciated the arts without creating art
• someone who enjoyed worldly pleasures
• someone who specialized in a particular field of study

Michelangelo is known for which of the following:

• Writing The Prince
• Painting the Mona Lisa
• Inventing a flying machine
• Painting the Sistine Chapel

In the 95 Theses Martin Luther wrote: "Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor and lends to the needy does better work that buying pardons." What is Luther talking about?

• The sale of indulgences
• The doctrine of predestination
• The lack of concern for the poor
• The spread of secular humanism

This period of time was a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. It replaced the Greek view of nature that had dominated science for almost 2,000 years.

• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Scientific Revolution
• Elizabethan Era

As a result of the Edict of Worms,

• John Calvin had to eat worms
• Luther was declared an outlaw
• The Pope welcomed Luther back to the church
• The Huguenots were forced to flee France

The Thirty Years War broke out in 1618 mainly as a conflict between:

• Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire
• Spanish Protestants and Catholics
• Pope and Italian bankers
• Peasants and princes in Germany

Which Monarch finalized England's status as a Protestant nation and wrote the 39 Articles?

• Mary I
• Henry VIII
• Elizabeth I
• Edward VI

How did Galileo advance scientific knowledge?

• He discovered the laws of gravity
• He argued that blood circulates through the human body
• He developed a geocentric model of the universe
• He gathered data that supported the Heliocentric theory