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WorksheetsRenaissance and Reformation Unit Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Wrote the book The Prince about absolute power
Niccolo Machiavelli
Michelangelo
Dante
Calvin
A painter, inventor, scientist, and singer who painted the Mona Lisa and is considered to be The “Renaissance Man”
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Dante
Machiavelli
Invented the printing press
John Calvin
Johann Gutenberg
Martin Luther
Ignatius of Loyola
What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
Christian devotion
Art and learning
Chivalry and tournaments
Good health after the plague
The Renaissance began in Northern Italy because of all of the following except:
thriving cities
great food
wealthy merchant class
heritage of Greece & Rome
The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?
Human potential and achievements
An understanding of early Christianity
An understanding of ancient Muslim values
Roman law and government
Who declared himself the head of the English Church and reformed it because of political reasons?
Henry VIII
John Knox
Martin Luther
Emperor Charles V
What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg printed?
Utopia
Romeo and Juliet
The Bible
The Prince
What was The most immediate cause of the Reformation?
Henry the VIII creating the Church of England
Erasmus writing Praise of Follies
John Calvin establishing Calvinism
Martin Luther posting The 95 Theses
What best describes an indulgence?
Money paid to the Church for forgiveness of sins
Money paid to artists for paintings and sculptures
Money paid to the king for taxes
Luxury items
17th-century scholars Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei faced serious challenges to their scientific theories because their ideas
were based on the Bible
contradicted traditional medieval Christian beliefs
relied only on teachings from non-Christian cultures
were not supported by scientific investigations
True or False?
Art from the Renaissance contains more realistic images than art from the Middle Ages.
True
False
Who is King Henry VIII?
King of England during the High Middle Ages. Commonly confused with Aethelberd of Kent.
King of England during the Reformation. He proved his loyalty to the Pope and was named Holy Roman Emperor
King of England during the Protestant Reformation. He created the Church of England because the Pope wouldn’t grant him a divorce.
King of France during the Reformation. He was good friends with Luther and helped France transition from Catholicism to Lutheranism.
What made the Printing Press so important?
It allowed people to press different prints onto their clothing, setting off a creative boom in fashion.
It allowed the Pope to make more money, as he could sell more Bibles to more people
It allowed ideas to be more easily refuted since people could easily find counter-arguments.
It helped spread criticisms of the Catholic Church to the masses. This allowed the Protestant Reformation to begin.
