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Unit #6 Session Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the Enlightenment philosophers is credited with the idea of checks and balances within government?

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Rousseau

2.

During the Mongol rule in China, what Chinese inventions were brought back home with European traders?

a)

silver, spices, and cotton

b)

steel, compass, and gunpowder

c)

tea and silk

d)

silver, spices, cotton, tea and silk

3.

"The Last Supper" and "The Mona Lisa" are classic paintings, which of the following renaissance artists created them?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Dante

c)

Johannes Gutenberg

d)

Michelangelo

4.

Which northern Italian city was an important trading city that was influential in spreading Renaissance ideas?

a)

Rome

b)

Venice

c)

Sicily

d)

Naples

5.

Which person helped spark an interest in ancient classic literature, which led to the development of humanism?

a)

Cicero

b)

Dante

c)

Galileo

d)

Petrarch

6.

Improvements in printing in Europe during the Renaissance led to which of the following?

a)

a decrease in the amount of people who could afford books

b)

a decrease in the amount of religious books printed

c)

an increase in learning and literacy

d)

a decrease in the use of the printing press

7.

Which of the following BEST describes why Martin Luther was upset by the selling of indulgences?

a)

Martin Luther believed it was taking advantage of poor to sell indulgences.

b)

Martin Luther believed that it impossible to sell forgiveness from God.

c)

Martin Luther said Church taxes should go to German leaders not the Pope.

d)

Martin Luther believed that people could not buy forgiveness.

8.

In which way did the European worldview change after their increased progress in cartography?

a)

Europeans lost interest in exploration.

b)

They thought the world too large to explore.

c)

A renewed interest in trade and exploration occurred.

d)

Europeans closed their doors to trading.

9.

Prince Henry, the Navigator of Portugal, helped established the first sea trade route with Asia by __________.

a)

sponsoring expeditions and founding a sailing school

b)

commanding ships that mapped the route

c)

conquering the land and starting trade centers

d)

inventing cartography and the astrolabe

10.

Which term describes the trading of plants, animals, diseases, & more between Europe & the Americas during the 1400's?

a)

mercantilism

b)

bubonic plague

c)

Columbian Exchange

d)

Scientific Revolution

11.

Rousseau contributed to the ideas of democracy through his belief in __________.

a)

checks and balances

b)

an enlightened monarch

c)

the separation of powers

d)

the equality of men

12.

Which of the following was an event that helped the Spanish conquer the Inca empire?

a)

flooding

b)

famine

c)

cholera epidemic

d)

civil war in the empire

13.

The English Bill of Rights borrowed what idea from the Magna Carta?

a)

trial by jury

b)

right to bear arms

c)

freedom from taxes

d)

the monarch was above the law

14.

Which of the following was the location where people met to discuss the new ideas of Enlightenment?

a)

private homes

b)

European courts

c)

salons

d)

churches

15.

Traditional Japanese custom required a samurai who violated the bushido code to take which of the following actions?

a)

bunraku

b)

seppuku

c)

haiku

d)

kabuki