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Unit 5 Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and created the sculpture David?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Donatello

2.

Which Renaissance invention by Johannes Gutenberg increased literacy rates in Europe?

a)

Printing press

b)

Ink

c)

Latin

3.

What intellectual movement was based on the study of humanities and classical subjects? It emphasized individual potential.

a)

Secularism

b)

Indifference

c)

Humanism

d)

Rejectionism

4.

Which Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper? He is also known for his study of the human body.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Donatello

5.

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

a)

Other European countries were at war

b)

Involvement in trade spread ideas

c)

Wealthy merchants and bankers funded artists

d)

Italy had a single strong government

6.

Who started the Protestant Reformation?

a)

John Calvin

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther

d)

Gandhi

7.

What did the Catholic Church let people buy to excuse them from a sin and let people into heaven?

a)

Bibles

b)

Permission

c)

An Indulgence

8.

Martin Luther wrote the (a)   with 95 criticisms about the Catholic Church

9.

What ship did the Portuguese invent that allowed them to sail faster and against the wind better due to its lateen sails?

(a)  

10.

What invention did European explorers adopt from China?

a)

Lateen sails

b)

Caravel

c)

Astrolabe

d)

Magnetic compass

11.

What explorer landed in the Caribbean in 1492 but thought he had found a route to India and China?

a)

Ferdinand Magellan

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Bartolomeu Dias

d)

Prince Henry the Navigator

12.

The Treaty of (a)   divided the undiscovered lands between Spain and Portugal

13.

Hernán Cortés conquered the Incan Empire

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The encomienda was a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americans which forced Native Americans to work as laborers for Spanish landowners

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Enslaved Africans were forced to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a voyage known as

a)

The Middle Passage

b)

The Columbian Exchange

16.

The continents of North and South America were named after the Italian explorer Amigo ______

a)

Cabot

b)

Columbus

c)

Magellan

d)

Vespucci

17.

What are the 3Gs (goals for European exploration)?

a)

Gold

b)

Glory

c)

Government

d)

God

18.

This map represents the (a)  

19.

Identify positive effects of the Columbian Exchange

a)

Global population increase

b)

New foods available

c)

Introduction of domesticated animals like horses to the Americas

d)

Encomienda

20.

The increase in prices in Europe due to too much silver being imported and ruining the value of money is called

a)

Famine

b)

Inflation

c)

Expulsion

d)

Deflation

21.

The belief that kings and queens get the right to rule from god is called the divine right of kings

a)

True

b)

False

22.

John ________ wrote that people have natural rights, including the rights to life, liberty, and property

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Calvin

d)

Luther

23.

(a)   is a government in which the ruler has absolute, or total, control and power

24.

King _____ of France is known for saying "I am the state," and is the best example of an absolute monarch

a)

Philip II

b)

Peter the Great

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Frederick the Great

25.

The Palace of _______ was built by King Louis XIV, and demonstrated his absolute power

a)

Russia

b)

St. Petersburg

c)

Prussia

d)

Versailles

26.

The ruler of Russia was called a (a)   , which is the Russian translation of caesar

27.

______ the Great is the Russian czar known for modernizing and Westernizing Russia

a)

Peter

b)

Frederick

c)

Catherine

d)

Ivan

28.

William _______ was a Northern Renaissance writer famous for his plays such as Romeo & Juliet

a)

Dante

b)

Carvaggio

c)

de Cervantes

d)

Shakespeare