Chap 15 - Europe Reform & Building

Question 1

The founder of the Protestant Reformation was

a. Thomas a Kempis
b. Erasmus
c. John Calvin
d. Martin Luther

Answer 1

d.Martin Luther

Question 2

Which of the following founded Reformation movements in Switzerland?

a. Calvin
b. Erasmus
c. Zwingli and Calvin
d. Luther
e. Zwingli

Answer 2

c.Zwingli and Calvin

Question 3

Which of these exemplify corruption in the Catholic Church on the eve of the Reformation?

a. buying of indulgences
b. poorly trained parish priests
c. biblical interpretation
d. buying of indulgences and poorly trained parish priests
e. Zwinglianism

Answer 3

d.buying of indulgences and poorly trained parish priests

Question 4

Martin Luther came to believe that salvation was possible through

a. avoidance of indulgences
b. good works alone
c. faith alone
d. study of the Bible

Answer 4

c.faith alone

Question 5

When Luther made his famous statement, “Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise,” he outraged his emperor

a. Charles V
b. Philip I
c. Charles I
d. Philip II

Answer 5

a.Charles V

Question 6

In 1524, an uprising began in Germany that would become known as

a. The Fronde
b. The Glorious Revolution
c. The Peasants’ War
d. The Wars of Religion

Answer 6

c.The Peasants’ War

Question 7

Which of the following was the most radical Reformation movement:

a. Lutheranism
b. Zwinglianism
c. Anabaptism
d. Calvinism

Answer 7

c.Anabaptism

Question 8

John Calvin’s reforms were focused on the city of

a. London
b. Geneva
c. Rome
d. Augsburg

Answer 8

b.Geneva

Question 9

The English Reformation was initiated by

a. Henry VIII
b. Elizabeth I
c. Thomas Cranmer
d. Edward VI

Answer 9

a.Henry VIII

Question 10

Which of the following was an important part of the Catholic Reformation?

a. Society of Jesus
b. the Modern Devotion
c. reformed and revived papacy
d. Council of Trent, reformed and revived papacy and the Modern Devotion
e. Society of Jesus, reformed and revived papacy, and Council of Trent

Answer 10

e.Society of Jesus, reformed and revived papacy, and Council of Trent

Question 11

French protestants were known as

a. politiques
b. Valois
c. Puritans
d. Huguenots

Answer 11

d.Huguenots

Question 12

Which sixteenth-century monarch was known as the “Most Catholic King”?

a. Philip II
b. Louis XIV
c. Charles V
d. William of Orange

Answer 12

a.Philip II

Question 13

The Spanish Armada attacked England during the reign of

a. Catherine of Aragon
b. Queen Mary
c. Elizabeth Tudor
d. Mary Tudor

Answer 13

c.Elizabeth Tudor

Question 14

Who was most likely to be accused of witchcraft during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

a. women of the upper classes
b. priests
c. women of the lower classes
d. city officers

Answer 14

c.women of the lower classes

Question 15

The Thirty Years’ War was officially ended by the

a. Peace of Westphalia
b. Toleration Act
c. Edict of Nantes
d. Edict of Worms

Answer 15

a.Peace of Westphalia

Question 16

Who has traditionally been considered the best example of the practice of absolute monarchy in the seventeenth century?

a. Louis XIV
b. Philip II
c. Peter the Great
d. Elizabeth Tudor

Answer 16

a.Louis XIV

Question 17

Who was the first Russian ruler to take the title of tsar?

a. Ivan IV the Terrible
b. Muscovy Romanov
c. Peter the Great
d. Ivan I

Answer 17

a.Ivan IV the Terrible

Question 18

The English civil war of 1642-1648 resulted from conflict between

a. the New Model Army and the Puritans
b. Charles I and James VI
c. Oliver Cromwell and Parliament
d. Charles I and Parliament

Answer 18

d.Charles I and Parliament

Question 19

What right did the English Bill of Rights of 1689 NOT affirm?

a. the right to keep arms
b. the right To petition the sovereign
c. the right to a jury trial
d. the right to religious freedom

Answer 19

d.the right to religious freedom

Question 20

The artistic Renaissance came to an end when which new movement emerged in Italy?

a. Mannerism
b. the Glorious Revolution
c. Elizabethanism
d. the Baroque

Answer 20

a.Mannerism