Renaissance Philosophy and Religious Reform

One notable feature of the Renaissance philosophy of humanism was its focus on which of the following?

• Study of medieval scholarship

• Cultivation of the physical self

• Secular view of the world

• Development of abstract visual art

Which sentence best expresses the meaning of John Calvin’s predestination?

• Anyone can earn salvation through good works

• God has already decided who will gain salvation

• People require salvation because they are sinful by nature

• Salvation is earned through prayer and sacrifice

Which idea was central to Martin Luther’s protest against the Catholic Church during the 1500s?

• Poorly educated clergy

• Existence of Heaven

• Personal salvation through faith 

• Whether human beings have souls

What was one effect of the transatlantic slave trade?

• Africans slaves integrated their customs and culture into New World societies

• African slaves took the skills they learned in the New World back to their homelands

• African slaves received schooling that would have been unavailable in their homelands

• African slaves throughout the New World were free from Abraham Lincoln

Based on the information in the above table, which popular Mexican food would not have been possible prior to the Columbian Exchange.

• Corn tortillas

• Chicken enchiladas

• Hot cocoa

• Tomato salsa

Sir Francis Bacon was an English philosopher whose ideas about the scientific method helped further which idea?

• Inductive reasoning

• Existentialism

• Indestructible atoms

• Pragmatism

Which statement summarizes a major philosophical view developed by Rene Descartes?

• The concept of “I think, therefore I am”.

• Life is a “cloud of unknowability”

• An unexamined life is not worth living

• The mind is a blank slate

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence?

• Hugo Grotius

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Immanuel Kant

The Age of Enlightenment focused on the conflict between religion and which of the following

• Reason

• Economics

• Culture

• Romance

The goal of the American Revolution was to gain independence from an overseas colonizing country. What was the goal of the French Revolution?

• To end the Reign of Terror

• To put a new ruling family on the throne

• To expand the role of the Catholic Church

• To eliminate noble privilege through a new social order