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8th Religion Chapter 11-14

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Black Death happened... when?

a)

During the Crusades

b)

late Middle Ages

c)

During the Englightenment

d)

early Middle Ages

2.

The Muslim Turks had taken over which great Christian capital in 1453?

a)

Rome

b)

Tarsis

c)

Madrid

d)

Constantinople

3.

Christendom began to weaken after the Black Death because...

a)

Priests were poorly educated and could not teach

b)

Mass was said in Latin and most could not understand it

c)

Christians did not go to communion often, maybe once a year

d)

All answers are correct

4.

Who is the Middle Ages Saint who was known for holiness and wisdom, as well as her many writings. She is a Doctor of the Church

a)

Saint Monica

b)

Saint Helena

c)

Saint Catherine of Siena

d)

Saint Therese of Liseux

5.

During the middle ages a holy woman from England began to see visions after an illness. She wrote a book about her visions, and is thought to be the first woman to have written a book in English.

a)

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

b)

Saint Catherine of Siena

c)

Saint Mary of Magdelene

d)

Blessed Julian of Norwich

6.

The situation in 1388-1417 between cardinals of France and the papacy in Rome resulted in a time where there were 3 popes at once! This was called the..

a)

Protestant Reformation

b)

the Great Schism of the West

c)

The Inquisition

d)

The schism between the eastern and western Churches

7.

The start of the Modern Age is known as the

a)

Revolution

b)

The Great Indulgence

c)

The Blue Period

d)

the Renaissance

8.

A Renaissance philosphy interested many Christian scholars. This was called...

a)

Protestantism

b)

Atheism

c)

Humanism

d)

Christendom

9.

The great Italian Renaissance artist is...

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Vincent Van Goh

10.

Who is the 12th century saint, German mystic, writer, scientist, and musicians/composer?

a)

Catherine of Siena

b)

Julian of Norwich

c)

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

d)

Saint Monica

11.

Who was the German Augustinian priest who posted 95 Thesis on the door of a Church in 1517?

a)

St. Dominic

b)

St. Anthony

c)

St. Francis

d)

Martin Luther

12.

Martin Luther's 95 Theses was the begining of what?

a)

The Great Schism of the West

b)

The Crusades

c)

The Protestant Reformation

d)

The French Revolution

13.

Which problem in the Church was one that was addressed by Martin Luther's 95 Theses?

a)

lack of educated priests

b)

Muslim takeover of the Holy Lands

c)

the selling of indulgences to raise money

d)

the lack of Bibles translated in German

14.

What is the name of the new Christian community (in the 16th Century) of followers of Martin Luther's teachings?

a)

Jehovah's Wittnesses

b)

Muslims

c)

Lutherans

d)

Methodists

15.

A severe penalty imposed by the Church for serious sins against the Catholic religion is called....

a)

revolution

b)

excommunication

c)

purgatory

d)

indulgence

16.

Luther rejected many things in the Catholic Church, including...

a)

The Holy Eucharist

b)

Latin Mass

c)

papal authority

d)

ordained priesthood and monastic life

17.

In 1520 Pope Leo X did what to Martin Luther?

a)

tortured him

b)

excommunicated him

c)

made him a Cardinal

d)

banned him from visiting the Pope

18.

Which Protestant reformer rejected the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist?

a)

King Henry VIII

b)

John Calvin

c)

Archbishop Crammer

d)

Sir Thomas More

19.

Why did King Henry VII in England create the Church of England, breaking away from the Catholic Church?

a)

He agreed with Martin Luther's 95 Theses

b)

He wanted to be the head of the Church

c)

He wanted a divorce so he could remarry and the Pope would not grant the divorce.

d)

He wanted to purchase more indulgences than were allowed

20.

Who was the Catholic English lord chancellor who defied King Henry VIII because of his faith and was executed by the King.

a)

Archbishop Crammer

b)

Sir Thomas More

c)

John Calvin

d)

Huldrych Zwingli

21.

The Church council held from 1545 to 1563 to answer the Protestant Reformation is called the...

a)

The Council of Ephesus

b)

The II Vatican Council

c)

The Nicean Council

d)

The Council of Trent

22.

The period of reformation in the Catholic Church in the 16th Century is known as the...

a)

Protestant Reformation

b)

The Counter-Reformation

c)

Christendom

d)

The French Revolution

23.

What is the name of the new society that Pope Paul III approved in 1540?

a)

The Dominicans

b)

The Benedictines

c)

The Jesuits known as The Society of Jesus

d)

The Franciscans

24.

Which saint headed a commission to issue an official Roman Catechism in 1566?

a)

Ignatius of Loyola

b)

Thomas More

c)

Charles Borromeo

d)

John Calvin

25.

Pope Alexander VI (16th century) asked explorers who were traveling to the "New World" to do what?

a)

find treasures for the Church art collection

b)

evangelize

c)

sprinkle holy water on the beaches of the new lands

d)

display the cross on ship sails

26.

What is the term to describe kings and queens who gained complete or absolute power over all aspects of the lives or their people?

a)

demigods

b)

evangelizers

c)

protestants

d)

absolute monarchs

27.

Who founded the first Catholic settlement in North America in St. Augustine Florida?

a)

Germans

b)

French

c)

Spaniards

d)

English

28.

In the 1600's which country's missionaries set up missions in New Orleans, Louisianna?

a)

Spain

b)

English

c)

French

d)

Italian

29.

Catholic and Protestant English settlers established a settlement in 1634 called....

a)

Philadelpia

b)

Marys Land (now Maryland)

c)

Massachusetts

d)

St. Augustine

30.

In 1784 Pope Pius VI began to organize the Church in America and chose who to be "Superior of the Mission" in the US?

a)

Thomas Aquinas

b)

Thomas More

c)

Pedro Betancur

d)

Father John Carroll

31.

Which 17th Century scientist proved the theory that the earth revolves around the sun? The Church discounted his findings at first, but later accepted the science.

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Lech Walesa

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Christopher Columbus

32.

The new age of science and reason in the 16th and 17th centuries was called the...

a)

Protestant Reformation

b)

Counter-Reformation

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Renaissance

33.

The idea that religous faith has no place in society, science or government is called...

a)

atheism

b)

revolution

c)

secularization

d)

evangelization

34.

Which saint became a missionary in Guatemala and established the Bethlehemite Congregation, the first religous order founded in the Americas?

a)

Saint Christopher

b)

Saint Pedro de San Jose' Betancur

c)

Saint Xavier

d)

Saint Ignatius

35.

Who was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Charles Carroll

d)

John Adams

36.

Which pope suppressed the Jesuits and closed their schools, churches and missions in the middle of the eighteenth century? (under pressure from absolute monarchs)

a)

Pope Pius VI

b)

Pope Francis

c)

Pope Clement XIV

d)

Pope Pius VII

37.

What was the name of the revolutionary assembly that represented all the people of France that started the French Revolution in the late 18th Century?

a)

The Democratic Assembly

b)

The Republican Assembly

c)

The Council of Trent

d)

The National Assembly

38.

In 1790 the French National Assembly demanded that all clergy take an oath to uphold what?

a)

The 95 Theses

b)

The Church of England

c)

Civil Constitution of Clergy

d)

The 2nd Vaitcan Council

39.

The French Revolution became very violent when tens of thousands of French citizens were killed, including the king and queen, priests, brothers and nuns. This period was called...

a)

The American Revolution

b)

The Reign of Terror

c)

The Black Death

d)

The Martyrs of Compi'egne

40.

Who was the leader and eventual emperor of France that restored the French Catholic Church?

a)

Noel Pinot

b)

Clement XIV

c)

Louis XVI

d)

Napoleon Bonaparte

41.

What did Bonaparte do to Pope Pius VII when the pope would not go along with conquering Great Britain?

a)

Ignored the pope and attacked Great Britain

b)

arrested the pope and kept him prisoner in France

c)

renegotiated the treaty of Concordat