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DL Chapter 18 (Transformation of the West, 1450–1750)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these men was a political theorist of the Renaissance?

a)

Filippo Brunelleschi

b)

Francesco Petrarch

c)

Niccolo Machiavelli

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

2.

One of the most important patrons of the Northern Renaissance was ________.

a)

Louis XIV

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Francis I

d)

Frederick the Great

3.

What is the most famous innovation of Johannes Gutenberg?

a)

the wind mill

b)

the compass

c)

the caravel

d)

movable type

4.

The 95 theses were proposed by ________.

a)

Henry VIII

b)

Martin Luther

c)

John Calvin

d)

Jan Hus

5.

Which of these was the movement that included Lutheranism and Calvinism?

a)

Catholicism

b)

Anglicanism

c)

Protestantism

d)

predestination

6.

Which of these founded a Protestant sect in Geneva?

a)

Martin Luther

b)

Jean Calvin

c)

Huldrych Zwingli

d)

Ignatius Loyola

7.

Which of these was a religious order founded under the Catholic Reformation?

a)

Jesuits

b)

Carmelites

c)

Benedictines

d)

Franciscans

8.

The Edict of Nantes ended religious conflict in ________.

a)

the Holy Roman Empire

b)

England

c)

France

d)

Italy

9.

The Thirty Years War was centered in________.

a)

Germany

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

England

10.

The proletariat were ________.

a)

farmers

b)

serfs

c)

urban skilled workers

d)

workers without any property

11.

The height of witchcraft persecutions came in what period?

a)

1480 to 1530

b)

1375 to 1395

c)

1590 to 1650

d)

1670 to 1685

12.

Which of these emerged in the seventeenth century?

a)

French Revolution

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Black Death

d)

Enlightenment

13.

In what field did Nicolaus Copernicus work?

a)

anatomy

b)

chemistry

c)

theology

d)

astronomy

14.

Johannes Kepler contributed to our understanding of ________.

a)

planetary motion

b)

gravity

c)

the moon

d)

stem power

15.

Which of these pioneered the use of the telescope in astronomy?

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

Galileo Galilei

16.

William Harvey pioneered work investigating ________.

a)

planetary motion

b)

the circulatory system

c)

weaving machines

d)

engines

17.

The author of Principia Mathematica was ________.

a)

René Descartes

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

Galileo Galilei

18.

Which of these men was an English philosopher who placed his faith in reason?

a)

John Locke

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Adam Smith

d)

Denis Diderot

19.

The French government in the seventeenth century was a(n)________.

a)

republic

b)

constitutional monarchy

c)

absolute monarchy

d)

empire

20.

Which of these was ruler of France for most of the seventeenth century?

a)

Louis XVI

b)

Henry IV

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Charles VII

21.

Frederick the Great was ruler of ________.

a)

Russia

b)

the Holy Roman Empire

c)

Prussia

d)

France

22.

The dominant intellectual movement of the eighteenth century was ________.

a)

the Renaissance

b)

the Scientific Revolution

c)

Romanticism

d)

the Enlightenment

23.

Adam Smith worked in what field?

a)

economics

b)

astronomy

c)

botany

d)

physics

24.

Denis Diderot is most famous for what work?

a)

Journal des Dames

b)

Principia Mathematica

c)

the Encyclopédie

d)

The Starry Messenger

25.

Mary Wollstonecraft is best known as a(n) ________.

a)

artist

b)

feminist

c)

doctor

d)

scientist

26.

The roots of humanism were in the ________.

a)

Catholic church

b)

Crusades

c)

voyages of exploration

d)

classical past

27.

In the 1500s, which of these regions lost its longstanding lead in European commerce?

a)

Italy

b)

Spain

c)

Portugal

d)

England

28.

The _________ of the Northern Renaissance distinguished it from the Italian Renaissance.

a)

goals

b)

methods

c)

focus

d)

philosophy

29.

Which of these was Martin Luther’s goal in posting his 95 theses?

a)

revolution

b)

reform

c)

war

d)

schism

30.

The main motivation for forming the Anglican church was ________.

a)

spiritual

b)

political

c)

diplomatic

d)

economic

31.

Looking at Map 18.1 on p. 410, “Western Europe During the Renaissance and Reformation,” it is clear that in this period ________.

a)

Protestantism has not spread beyond Germany

b)

the home of Protestantism was in Mediterranean nations

c)

most of western Europe was still Catholic

d)

Protestantism had spread to most of Europe

32.

The Thirty Years War can be characterized as a ________.

a)

religious conflict

b)

civil war

c)

war of aggression

d)

defensive war

33.

The English Civil War was part of what larger development?

a)

the Northern Renaissance

b)

English imperialism

c)

the Enlightenment

d)

seventeenth-century wars of religion

34.

Map 18.2 on p. 412, “Europe Under Absolute Monarchy,” shows ________ in 1715.

a)

the dominance of Catholicism

b)

the emergence of two large power blocs in Europe

c)

Italian decline

d)

the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire

35.

The proletariat were useful as ________.

a)

laborers

b)

consumers

c)

small farmers

d)

skilled laborers

36.

Looking at Map 18.3 on p. 414, “European Population Density,” which of these patterns is illustrated?

a)

Population density was lower in Protestant than in Catholic countries.

b)

The Slavic lands generally had high population densities.

c)

Population density was much higher in western than in eastern Europe.

d)

Muslim land had higher population densities than Christian lands.

37.

Which of these contexts best explains the spike in witchcraft persecutions?

a)

the Scientific Revolution

b)

the Enlightenment

c)

enlightened absolutism

d)

wars of religion

38.

The first steps in the Scientific Revolution were taken in what domain?

a)

scientific method

b)

astronomy

c)

logic

d)

medicine

39.

Galileo and Descartes represent what two aspects of the Scientific Revolution?

a)

support for and resistance to scientific innovation

b)

traditional scientific methods versus more innovative

methods

c)

innovation in scientific technology and approaches

d)

the moderns and the ancients

40.

The scientific method was marked by an increasing reliance on ________.

a)

reason

b)

technology

c)

Asian advances

d)

university-trained intellectuals

41.

Unlike monarchies around 800, monarchies around 1700 were ________.

a)

passed on by inheritance

b)

states

c)

more dependent on the nobility

d)

smaller

42.

In the context of politics, France and England represent ________.

a)

a novel idea and its fulfillment

b)

similar developments

c)

two distinct strands of development

d)

the origins of capitalism

43.

Parliamentary monarchies can be said to have been ________ medieval political developments.

a)

a new direction away from

b)

a rejection of

c)

the end of

d)

further developments in

44.

The Enlightenment grew naturally out of ________.

a)

technologies discovered in the Scientific Revolution

b)

the ideologies of the Scientific Revolution

c)

the Protestant Reformation

d)

the voyages of discovery

45.

Opportunities for women in the eighteenth century were ________.

a)

increasing

b)

expanding dramatically

c)

unchanging

d)

disappearing

46.

Which of these arguably had the broadest impact in the period of the Enlightenment?

a)

rising literacy

b)

the scientific method

c)

new religious outlooks

d)

warfare

47.

Which of these grew as an indirect outcome of changes in agricultural methods in the 1700s?

a)

commerce

b)

scientific developments

c)

improved farm yields

d)

the proletariat

48.

In the context of European Christianity, the level of religious conflict in the 1600s and 1700s was ________.

a)

typical

b)

extremely high

c)

unusually low

d)

higher than usual

49.

Which of these distinguished Newton from earlier scientists of the seventeenth century?

a)

use of the scientific method

b)

consideration of planetary motion

c)

development of a comprehensive model

d)

his ethnicity

50.

Which of these Enlightenment principles is most clearly the product of the Scientific Revolution?

a)

new ideas about women

b)

atheism

c)

the idea of natural rights

d)

a new faith in reason