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Renaissance and Reformation Vocabulary

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the term "Heliocentric" refer to?

a)

A method used to confirm scientific findings

b)

A belief that the sun is the center of the universe

c)

A person who provides financial support for the arts

d)

An intellectual movement during the Italian Renaissance

2.

What was the Renaissance?

a)

A religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church

b)

A period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s

c)

A period in the 1500s and 1600s where traditional ideas were challenged

d)

A Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe

3.

What is the Scientific Method?

a)

A period in the 1500s and 1600s of scientific challenges to traditional ideas

b)

A painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis

c)

The act of canceling or invalidating something

d)

A belief that salvation is gained through faith alone

4.

What does "Secular" mean?

a)

Related to religious matters

b)

Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

c)

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters

d)

A person who provides financial support for the arts

5.

What is the main belief of Calvinism?

a)

Salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth

b)

The sun is the center of the universe

c)

A person who provides financial support for the arts

d)

A method used to confirm scientific findings

6.

What does "Annul" mean according to the Catholic Church?

a)

To confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis

b)

To cancel or invalidate (in the RCC applies to marriage)

c)

To support the heliocentric theory

d)

To provide financial support for the arts

7.

What is heresy?

a)

A period of great creativity and change in Europe

b)

A painstaking method used to confirm findings

c)

A religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church

d)

The act of providing financial support for the arts

8.

What is an indulgence in according to the Roman Catholic Church?

a)

A list of complaints against the Church

b)

A period of religious transformation

c)

Pardon for sins committed during a person's life

d)

A French reformer's teachings

9.

What are the 95 Theses?

a)

The idea that God has predetermined who will gain salvation

b)

A French Protestant reformer's teachings

c)

A German monk's call for revolution

d)

A list of 95 arguments against indulgences posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517

10.

What does predestination refer to?

a)

The period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church

b)

The idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation

c)

A list of 95 arguments against indulgences

d)

A German monk's call for revolution

11.

What was the Protestant Reformation?

a)

The period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches

b)

A list of 95 arguments against indulgences

c)

The teachings of a French Protestant reformer

d)

The idea that God has predetermined who will gain salvation

12.

Who was John Calvin?

a)

The German monk who began the Protestant Revolution

b)

The French Protestant reformer who preached predestination

c)

The person who posted the 95 Theses

d)

The leader who determined the concept of indulgences

13.

Who began the Protestant Revolution with the 95 Theses?

a)

John Calvin

b)

A French Protestant reformer

c)

Martin Luther

d)

An unnamed German monk

14.

Name the intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious ones

a)

Ethnocentrism

b)

Communism

c)

Humanism

d)

Democracy

15.

What is a person who provides financial support for the arts called?

a)

A Catholic

b)

A patron

c)

An artist

d)

A Protestant

16.

What happens if you recant?

a)

Start your own Christian religion

b)

Put on the list of banned books

c)

Kicked out of the Roman Catholic Church

d)
  1. Forced to give up one’s views or beliefs

17.
  1. Which period during the Renaissance included scientific thinkers challenging traditional ideas, while using observation, and experimentation?

a)

Predestination

b)

The Scientific Revolution

c)

Calvinism

d)

The Protestant Reformation

18.

Name the Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Galileo

c)

Leonardo Da Vinci

d)

Machiavelli

19.
  1. Name the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa.

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Michelangelo

d)

John Calvin

20.

Name the Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory and built a telescope.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Leonardo Da Vinci

c)

John Calvin

d)

Galileo Galilei

21.
  1. An Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel

a)

Donatello

b)

Leonardo Da Vinci

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Martin Luther

22.
  1. An English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy

a)

Sir Isaac Newton

b)

John Calvin

c)

Galileo Galilei

23.
  1. Name the English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories

a)

Niccolo Machiavelli

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Sir Isaac Newton