Practice Church History Final Exam Review 2023

Much of the early missionary success on the continent of Africa was later undermined by:

In Rerum Novarum the pope defended

The _____ missionaries were first to arrive in the United States: in what is now California, the Southwest, the Southest

The revolutionary government of France attempted to set up a new state religion by

The Papal States were lost in the nineteenth century due to:

He had one of the briefest papacies in the long history of the Church

Pope Francis described his vision of the Churches

which of these is FALSE regarding Vatican II

Rome became the preeminent patriarchate because:

French Revolution was a time:

The settlers of the original 13 colonies were predominatly

The followers of Jesus had a practice that distinguished them from other Jews when they:

He wrote the famous Apology to show that Christian moral life is based on ethics.

Pope Benedict XVI is remembered for his

Greek word "ekklesia" means

The 3rd Plenary Council of Baltimore decided that every Catholic parish should

The Book of Revelation was written in coded language:

The followers of Jesus distinguished themselves from other Jews when they:

The first surviving outline of the Rite of Eucharist comes from:

Protestant congregations constructed churches in a way that:

The Pope’s residence is known as the _____.

___ assumed power of revolutionary French army in a coup d’état and occupied Rome, imprisoning the Pope(died soon after)

The bishop of Rome was important in the early Church because:

One of the reasons the early Church taught that her authority was given by Christ to his apostles was to:

The Church is

The cathedrals of the Renaissance served as:

St. Thomas Aquinas, father of Scholasticism, believed in...

He taught that “religion is the opiate of the people.”

Fr. Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II)

Which of these statements about the great fire that swept through Rome in AD 64 is incorrect?

The Church adopted a Roman style of administration by:

The Church must address and communicate the truth by

Sometimes the missionaries:

Unam Sanctum was 

The Church's alliance with pagan tribes provided

Which of these is not one of the central reasons Christianity enjoyed growth during the first centuries of the Church?

Which of these statements is false about St. Paul?

The Catholic Church was one of the major victims of the French Revolution because

Jesus’ actions on earth, such as _____, were oriented to the Kingdom of God

Martin Luther’s response to Pope Leo X’s papal bull Exsurge Domine:

Which of these individuals was not directly involved with the formation of Catholic Schools in the US?

The first catcholic president of the US who had to combat anti-catholic prejudice

the actions that changes bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ

The monastery at Cluny:

Bishop of Smyrna

the ___ made important spiritual reforms including the use of the vernacular with the faithful, etc...

___________, the bishop of Rome, is leader of the whole Church, the successor to Peter.

became secretary to the pope who commissioned him to translate the Bible from Hebrew to Greek to Latin known as Vulgate

The Bible was widely distributed during the last half of the fifteenth century due to

The creed of Martin Luther’s new religion

Which is NOT a theme of Pope John Paul II encyclicals?

The political revolutions  spawned by Enlightenment ideas ended the Church as a political power in Europe but also:

Christianity arrived in _____ very early, perhaps as early as the first and second centuries.

Which of these reformers is most closely linked with the Oath of Supremacy?

Which of these was NOT one of the topics taken up at Vatican II

Perhaps the most prominent of all the works of the Renaissance was

During the Industrial Revolution, the Church spoke up for the poor and children who worked in factories

The writings of the Church Fathers ...

The Church is the place that Jesus Christ remains present

Apostle to the Gentiles

The handing on of the teaching and preaching, and office of the Apostles.

Which of these Roman emperors instigated a persecution of Christians during the first three centuries of the Church?

During the Renaissance the Church cautioned against:

Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI

John Knox stressed the baptism of all believers which meant that

Which of these statements is false regarding Martin Luther?

This humanitarian relief organization was established by the bishops of the US in 1943

When the Soviet Union set up communism in Hungary,Yugoslavia,Poland and more

Secured the authority of the pope and stabilized the Church after the fall of the Roman Empire

Which of these saints is most closely associated with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes?

Famous work is his Against Heresies, where he described/condemned various heresies, Gnosticism, denying Jesus' divinity

The forerunners of religious communities today began in the early Church,men and women set out to follow Christ by:

The word that best describes the papacy during the 9th to 11th centuries.

The anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States subsided for a time

Which of these statements is false about St. Paul?

The ____ determined that Gentiles could be accepted into the Church.

The Church was instituted by:

Tirelessly defended the Catholic faith against heresies.

He criticized the financial policies of the Avignon papacy

Election of Pope Francis inspired many fallen away Catholics and noncatholics to take a new look at the Church(known as)

In response to WWI, Pope Benedict XV

Who blamed the Christians for a fire that swept through Rome in AD 64?

The leaders of seafaring nations in Europe primarily viewed colonization as:

Many capitalists embraced the concept of ____ which was based on the theory of the "survival of the fittest"

Which of these is a correct understanding of papal infallibility?

both ____ and his sister, St. Scholastica, found separate monasteries for men and women

At the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople in 1964

The first bishop of the US, elected by his fellow Jesuits:

A vision St. Peter had in addition to his encounter with a gentile named Cornelius, gave Peter the impetus to:

Who blamed the Christians for a fire that swept through Rome in AD 64?

St. Pope John Paul II

What dilemma confronted the Church during WWI?

The Council of Trent had two primary goals: reforming problems related to the clergy and religious life and ...

The Papal Inquisition:

The Donation of Pepin was a:

The colonizers, including some of the missionaries, often thought of the native populations as

The word __________ refers to a specific community of believers under the leadership of a bishop.

The Bishop of Rome and the successor to St. Peter and leader of the whole Church

Without an emperor in the West, the Church:

A controversy erupted at the end of the third century in which Church leaders began to teach that: