2024 AP Euro Final Exam

The above picture depicts which two groups engaged in battle?

• The French Huguenots and Catholics

• French and Austrian soldiers

• Catholics and Anabaptists

• Peasants and nobles

The use of propaganda through writing and imagery such as that seen above proliferated during the era of religious conflict in Europe, making which of the following a crucial reason for the success of the Protestant Reformation?

• The widespread use of ballads as a way to share information between towns and villages.

• The implementation and proliferation of the printing press.

• The political conflict between the Catholic Church and Germanic princes.

• The greatly improved travel network in the Holy Roman Empire.

Which of the following factors most influenced the image above depicting opposing groups regulating public morals.

• The spread of Anabaptist ideas and ideals from Muenster to France causing armed insurrection.

• The spread of Austrian nationalism throughout the Germanic states and Italy.

• The spread of Calvinist ideas and ideals from Geneva into France causing religious conflict.

• The spread of Anglicanism from England causing religious conflict.

The clash depicted above sparked a greater conflict sometimes characterized by historians as a civil war that was ended by which of the following movements toward religious toleration?

• Elizabeth I issued her Elizabethan Settlement allowing private worship.

• Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau allowing many Protestants to worship as they pleased in fortified towns.

• Henry of Navarre converted back to Catholicism, became Henry IV of France, and issued the Edict of Nantes allowing many Protestants to worship as they pleased in fortified towns.

• The peace of Westphalia in 1648 allowed Calvinism to be practiced by people in principalities whose leaders chose to follow that religion and its offshoots.

Which of the following most accurately describes a significant trend in witchcraft prosecutions shown by the graph?

• The number of prosecutions increased sharply in the late 1500s and decreased sharply in the late 1600s.

• The number of prosecutions increased continually throughout the period covered by the graph

• The number of prosecutions increased steadily from 1550 to 1650.

• The number of prosecutions from 1450 to 1600 remained largely the same each decade.

The patterns in the graph most strongly support which of the following conclusions about witchcraft prosecutions in the early modern period?

• Witchcraft prosecutions are closely associated with economic stress.

• Witchcraft prosecutions are closely associated with religious conflict.

• Witchcraft prosecutions are closely associated with state centralization.

• Witchcraft prosecutions are closely associated with immigration.

The Bill of Rights challenged the traditional absolutist argument that:

• the monarch should respond to the wishes of the people.

• a powerful monarchy is needed to provide political stability.

• the aristocracy and the church should share power with the king.

• monarchical control is essential for encouraging free trade.

The excerpt of the document above most directly refers to which of the following policies of earlier Stuart rulers?

• The creation of impositions to tax without parliamentary consent.

• The failure to enforce the Test Act. (designed to exclude Catholics and Protestants (not part of the Church of England) from holding positions of power.)

• The appointment of court favorites to positions they were unqualified for

• The increasingly pro-Catholic sentiments of the Stuart monarchs

Pico della Mirandola was participating in which

cultural movement?

• The Renaissance

• The Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

• The French Revolution

Pico della Mirandola believed that humankind

was unique in what way?

• Human beings have a soul.

• The potential of the human being is unlimited.

• It is possible for human beings to go to heaven.

• Human beings know that they will die.