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Renaissance/Reformation Unit Test

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 39mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance?

a)

Society was dominated by the church.

b)

Society began to value individualism.

c)

Society was focused on warfare.

d)

Society was dominated by lords.

2.

Which of these famous structures did Michelangelo paint?

a)

the Louvre

b)

the Coliseum

c)

the Sistine Chapel

d)

the Eiffel Tower

3.

During the Renaissance, a new intellectual movement known as humanism evolved. What was the significance of the humanist movement?

a)

Humanists felt formal education was impractical and unnecessary; therefore, many schools were closed.

b)

Humanists spread the teachings of Eastern philosophers such as Confucius throughout Europe.

c)

Humanists were very interested in religious studies and sought to increase the influence of the Church.

d)

Humanists were inspired by classical texts and emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual.

4.

Which of these men of the Renaissance was known equally for his art as well as inventions?

a)

Rueben

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Aristotle

5.

? --->Literature printed for quickly --> literature printed for less money----> Greater spread of ideas

Which of these would complete the diagram?

a)

the Book of Common Prayer

b)

the Italian university system

c)

the Gutenberg printing press

d)

the Petrarchan style sonnet

6.

Which of these changes occurred during the Renaissance?

a)

The Church was all-powerful.

b)

The Church’s power declined.

c)

Factories began using electricity.

d)

Women gained equal rights with men.

7.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Tycho Brahe

• Johannes Kepler

All of the above were famous Renaissance

a)

philosophers.

b)

priests.

c)

artists.

d)

scientists.

8.

Which of these statements reflects an influence of the Renaissance?

a)

dominance of the church

b)

constant feudal warfare

c)

lack of any governance

d)

increased interest in the arts

9.

Which of these events influenced the changing role of religion during the Renaissance?

a)

the humanist movement

b)

the removal of the pope

c)

the burning of bibles

d)

the invention of movable type

10.

Which of the following statements describes the type of government which existed in Florence during the Renaissance?

a)

It was a small Italian town ruled by the king of Italy in Rome.

b)

It was completely under the control of the Catholic Church.

c)

It was a city-state ruled by the wealthy Medici family.

d)

It was the capital of Italy and had a large bureaucracy.

11.

Renaissance means

a)

Rebirth

b)

Restart

c)

Reform

d)

Relation

12.

Which country did the Renaissance start in?

a)

England

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Germany

13.

Who held the most power in Europe?

a)

The emperor

b)

The pope

c)

The king

d)

The people

14.

Invention that helped spread information

a)

Printing Press

b)

Mail service

c)

Pigeon Carrier

d)

Typewriter

15.

The first book ever published for the public

a)

The Prince

b)

Romeo and Juliet

c)

Dante's Inferno

d)

The Bible

16.

English playwright famous for his stories

a)

Dante

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Machiavelli

d)

Lorenzo Medici

17.

Select all of the Renaissance artists

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Raphael

d)

Donatello

18.

Who was considered to be the greatest thinker of the Renaissance?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Dante

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Da Vinci

19.

Select the two most famous art pieces by Michelangelo

a)

The Statue of David

b)

The Last Supper

c)

The Sistine Chapel

d)

The Mona Lisa

20.

Select the two most famous artworks by Da Vinci

a)

The Statue of David

b)

The Last Supper

c)

The Sistine Chapel

d)

The Mona Lisa

21.

Which two Italian cities really grew during the Renaissance?

a)

Florence

b)

London

c)

Paris

d)

Venice

22.

Which powerful family used violence to gain their power?

a)

The Medici Family

b)

The Shakespeare Family

c)

The Caesar Family

d)

The Da Vinci Family

23.
Which of the following cities was an important center during the early Renaissance?
a)
Florence
b)
London
c)
Ghent
d)
Paris
24.

Who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper?

a)

Petrarch

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Machiavelli

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

What did the Renaissance art and literature focus on?

a)

music and dancing

b)

church and salvation

c)

individuals, worldly matters & Christianity

d)

animals

26.

Artists from which time period used great detail and perspective in their artwork?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Medieval

27.

Who was considered the "Father of Humanism"?

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Petrarch

d)

Erasmus

28.

What is the study of knowledge?

a)

philosophy

b)

anthropology

c)

archaeology

d)

biology

29.

What is art technique that reflects life as it truly is?

a)

secular

b)

perspective

c)

realism

d)

humanism

30.

What is art technique shows images in three dimensions?

a)

secular

b)

perspective

c)

realism

d)

humanism

31.

The Renaissance came after what period of time?

a)

Ancient

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Modern

d)

Post-Modern

32.
______________ art was flat with rigid, emotionless figures, while ______________ art had full backgrounds with figures that showed emotion and detail.
a)
Renaissance, Medieval
b)
Renaissance, Classical
c)
Classical, Medieval
d)
Medieval, Renaissance
33.
Architect best known for designing and building large domes for churches; especially the Duomo in Florence.
a)
Florence
b)
city-state
c)
Leonardo Da Vinci
d)
Brunelleschi
34.
 An Italian Renaissance artist, born in 1475 A.D., who worked mainly as a sculptor but also painted such famous works as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Michelangelo
c)
Raphael
d)
Petrarch
35.
Italian artist of Florence who studied the great works by Leonardo da Vinci and appreciated the classical period.  His most famous works was The School of Athens.
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Michelangelo
c)
Raphael
d)
Petrarch
36.
The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.
a)
Johann Gutenberg
b)
Elizabethan Age
c)
Renaissance Man
d)
vernacular
37.
Which of the following most accurately characterizes the Renaissance?
a)
the spread of democracy
b)
the outburst of creativity 
c)
a growth of religious belief
d)
a decline in learning 
38.

A certificate that pardons sin?

a)

reckoning

b)

Indulgence

c)

Get out of Jail Free

d)

Inquisition

39.

People who protested against the Catholic Church were called_______.

a)

humanists

b)

skeptics

c)

Protestants

d)

mendicants

40.

What document, written by Luther, started the Reformation?

a)

Lutheran's protests

b)

Indulgences

c)

93 Theses

d)

95 Theses

41.

The Reformation began as a way to change the ______ Church

a)

Protestant

b)

Catholic

c)

Calvinist

d)

Lutheran

42.

Why were the Protestants upset with the Catholic Church? 2 answers

a)

the Lutherans took away Church members

b)

sale of indulgences

c)

the Church sent people to Italy

d)

the way the Church earned and spent money

43.

What helped the ideas of the Reformation to spread? 2 answers

a)

missionaries visiting Lutheran Churches

b)

priests spreading the word

c)

printing press

d)

trade

44.

What does convert mean?

a)

to change your religion

b)

to help create new Churches

c)

to become a missionary for the Church

d)

Jesuits

45.

What was the Counter Reformation?

a)

the Reformers fighting against the Church

b)

the Church's answer to the Protestant Reformers

c)

The Church fighting back against the Jesuits

d)

The Church's Court

46.

At which meeting did the Church define Catholic beliefs and decide what to do about the Protestants?

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

Treaty of Augsburg

c)

Council of Worms

d)

Council of Trent

47.

What was the Church's court called?

a)

Council of Trent

b)

the trials

c)

Inquisition

d)

Spanish questioning

48.

The Church's answer to the Protestants included the following: (multiple answers)

a)

Council of Trent

b)

Sent out missionaries to convert natives in new lands

c)

burned Catholic books

d)

banned Protestant books and burned them

49.

Who started the Church of England?

a)

John Calvin

b)

Henry VIII

c)

John Wycliffe

d)

William Tyndale

50.

The Church of England was formed because the king wanted a?

a)

stop the sale of Indulgences

b)

divorce or annulment

c)

to stop Church abuses

d)

restore the Catholic faith in England

51.
What was the Reformation?
a)
A series of events to reform the Catholic Church
b)
A series of events to reform Europe
c)
The reforming of Protestantism 
d)
The reforming of Buddhism
52.
Who was Martin Luther?
a)
A German Monk
b)
An Italian Monk
c)
An anarchist
d)
An athiest
53.
What was the Ninety-Five Thesis
a)
95 things the Catholic Church was doing wrong according to the Bible
b)
95 things the Catholic Church were doing right according to the Bible
c)
95 things the Catholic Church did according to the Bible
d)
95 complaints from Catholics about the Catholic Church
54.
Why were people mad at the Catholic church?
a)
They became greedy 
b)
They became lazy
c)
They did nothing wrong
d)
They did cared too much about the people
55.
What was the Catholic Church promising with if you bought indulgences?
a)
automatic entrance into Heaven
b)
predestination 
c)
charity 
d)
A chance to fight in the 30 years war
56.
A heretic is 
a)
Someone who challenges church doctrine
b)
Someone who works for the Inquisition.
c)
Someone who sells fish
d)
A protestor
57.
The idea that God has already determined who will be saved is called
a)
indulgence
b)
diet
c)
predestination
d)
theocracy
58.
What event was the start of the Protestant Reformation?
a)
Martin Luther creating a competing church to the Catholic Church
b)
Martin Luther taking over the church at Worms from the Catholic Priest
c)
Martin Luther writing a book condemning the Catholic Church
d)
Martin Luther posting his suggestions for reforms to the church to the door of the church
59.
Why did Henry VIII break away from the Catholic Church?
a)
Henry VIII had deep theological disagreements with the Church
b)
The Pope Excommunicated Henry VIII
c)
Henry VIII started a war with the king of Spain, the Pope's distant cousin
d)
He wanted to annul his marriage to marry his girlfriend to get an heir to the throne
60.

a reform movement against the Roman Catholic Church that began in 1517; it resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

a)

Reformation

b)

Indulgence

c)

Purgatory

d)

Protestant

61.

What was the Catholic Church's response to Martin Luther's 95 Theses?

a)

Excommunication

b)

The Peace of Westphalia

c)

The Counsel of Trent

d)

They ignored it

62.

According to Martin Luther, where is ultimate religious authority determined?

a)

The decisions of the Pope

b)

The bible

c)

The actions of the Priest

d)

Whatever feels good in the moment

63.
John Calvin believed in ________________.
a)
Free Will
b)
Pre-Destination
c)
Purgatory
d)
Indulgences
64.

The belief that God decides the final outcome of the universe is known as

a)

Christianity

b)

Lutheranism

c)

Calvinism

d)

Refomation

65.

The Huguenots were....

a)

French nobles who became Protestants

b)

French monarchs who converted to Catholicism

c)

Spanish nobles who help spread Protestantism

d)

Spanish monarchs who became Catholic

66.

In 1643, the HRE sued for peace and ended the Thirty Years War when the ___ was signed.

a)

Edict of Worms

b)

Peace of Westphalia

c)

Edit of Nantes

d)

Peace of Ausburg

67.

Who were the Jesuits?

a)

Catholics who fought in the military

b)

Catholics who were important to the Counter Reformation

c)

Protestants who left the Catholic Church

d)

Protestants who were important to the Counter Reformation

68.

Martin Luther believed that

a)

the Bible should not be translated.

b)

there was no need for change in the Catholic Church.

c)

people in the clergy should be involved in politics.

d)

anyone could have a direct relationship with God.

69.

in Catholic teaching, a place where souls went before they went to heaven

a)

Reformation

b)

Indulgence

c)

Purgatory

d)

Protestants

70.
A binding or sacred agreement.
a)
indulgences
b)
convert
c)
missionary
d)
covenant
71.
A Spaniard who founded the religious order, Jesuits, in the early A.D. 1530s. Ms. Weismair is an alumnus of this university!
a)
John Wycliffe
b)
Ignatius of Loyola
c)
Counter Reformation
d)
Martin Luther
72.
A division in the Roman Catholic Church from A.D. 1378 until 1417, which occurred when the Church’s two centers of power, Avignon and Rome, split and elected different popes.     
a)
Reformation
b)
Great Schism
c)
Protestant
d)
Counter Reformation
73.
A Christian humanist, who published a book called The Praise of Folly, a satire of society including abuses by clergy and church leaders.  He argued for a return to simple Christian goodness and wanted to reform the church from within. 
a)
John Calvin
b)
Martin Luther
c)
Desiderius Erasmus
d)
Henry VIII
74.
Founder of the Church of England, or the Anglican Church, he had Parliament pass the Act of Supremacy, which declared the King, not the Pope, as head of the church when the pope would not grant him a divorce.
a)
Henry VIII
b)
Martin Luther
c)
John Wycliffe
d)
John Calvin
75.
A German theologian, born in A.D. 1483, who was a leader of the Reformation and taught salvation through faith in God rather than through good deeds; author of the 95 Theses. 
a)
Desiderius Erasmus
b)
John Calvin
c)
John Wycliffe
d)
Martin Luther
76.
An English priest and scholar from England, he believed that the Bible, not the church, was the supreme source of religious authority and that Christians needed only to recognize Jesus Christ as the power above them, not the pope. Against church tradition, he had the Bible translated from Latin into English so that common people could read it.
a)
Henry VIII
b)
John Calvin
c)
John Wycliffe
d)
Desiderius Erasmus
77.
Authors living during the Renaissance started writing in the everyday language of the people known as the
a)
perspective
b)
chiaroscuro
c)
contrapposto
d)
vernacular
78.

These were members of the Jesuit order vowed obedience to the pope. They education to spread their message and established schools and were successful in missionary work.

a)

Society of Jesus

b)

Royal Commission

c)

Jesuits

d)

Council of Trent

79.

It created a clear body of doctrine that reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings and unified the Church under the pope’s supreme leadership.

a)

Act of Supremacy

b)

Council of Trent

c)

Royal Commission

d)

Edict of Worms

80.

the official language of the Catholic Church used for documents, the Bible, and celebrating Mass

a)

Latin

b)

German

c)

English

d)

French

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