Reformation, Renaissance, and Wars of Religion

Question 1

What important meeting did the Catholic Church convene as part of the Counter-Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Council of Trent

Question 2

During the Reformation, this invention played a critical role in the spread of ideas.

Accepted Answer

printing press

Question 3

Which Protestant group believed in communal property ownership?

Accepted Answer

Anabaptists

Question 4

What name was given to French Calvinists?

Accepted Answer

Huguenots

Question 5

Which of the following was not involved in the War of the Three Henrys?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 6

Which of the following wives was beheaded by Henry VIII?

Accepted Answer

Catherine Howard, Anne Boylen

Question 7

Who was Johann Tetzel?

Accepted Answer

the priest tasked with selling indulgences in 1517

Question 8

What religion launched a Counterreformation in the mid-1500s to try to win back converts?

Accepted Answer

Catholicism

Question 9

During the Renaissance, Italian artists drew inspiration from which two civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Greeks and Romans

Question 10

Who started the Protestant Reformation in 1517?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 11

Art from what period tended to focus more on everyday people & events?

Accepted Answer

Late Renaissance

Question 12

Which act made the King of England the head of the Church of England?

Accepted Answer

Act of Supremacy

Question 13

He incurred Martin Luther's wrath for selling indulgences in the 1500s.

Accepted Answer

Pople Leo X

Question 14

Niccolo Machiavelli is best known for doing what during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

saying it was better for leaders to be feared than loved

Question 15

What group of people do Calvinists believe will go to heaven?

Accepted Answer

the elect

Question 16

Which of Henry VIII’s children ascended to the throne first after Henry's death?

Accepted Answer

Edward VI

Question 17

The vast majority (90-95%) of Western Europeans were ______ during the Middle Ages.

Accepted Answer

peasants

Question 18

___, are plague victims in North America & did not help spread the Black Death across Europe.

Accepted Answer

ferrets

Question 19

A belief in predestination made this religion unique.

Accepted Answer

Calvinists

Question 20

The Treaty of Westphalia ____.

Accepted Answer

ended the 30 Years War

Question 21

Philip II of Spain sent the ____ to invade ____ in 1588, only to see it destroyed.

Accepted Answer

Armada, England

Question 22

Which of the following helped to carry the bubonic plague to Europe?

Accepted Answer

rats, fleas, giant gerbils

Question 23

Which of the following wives outlived Henry VIII and it related to Ms. Bek-gran?

Accepted Answer

Katherine Parr

Question 24

Under what social system did most Europeans live during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

Feudal System

Question 25

The Council of Trent did which of the following?

Accepted Answer

decreased the sale of indulgences (until abolished in 1567), reaffirmed basic church doctrines, sanctioned new religious orders (Jesuits and Ursulines)

Question 26

What new religious order was founded to educate men and combat Protestantism?

Accepted Answer

The Jesuits

Question 27

3,000 French Calvinists were murdered . massacred on this saint's special day.

Accepted Answer

St. Bartholomew

Question 28

Which is true of Henry IV of France?

Accepted Answer

he issued the Edict of Nantes

Question 29

Which of these religions encouraged adult baptism and saw all believers as equals?

Accepted Answer

Anabaptism

Question 30

Which theory states that an individual’s fate is determined by God before they are born?

Accepted Answer

Predestination

Question 31

What decree ended the French Wars of Religion in 1598, granting religious tolerance in France?

Accepted Answer

The Edict of Nantes

Question 32

___ is Niccolo Machiavelli’s famous work.

Accepted Answer

The Prince

Question 33

This wife is the mother to Henry VIII's only son.

Accepted Answer

Jane Seymour

Question 34

Between 1348 and 1351, what killed 1/3-2/3 of Europe’s population?

Accepted Answer

The Black Death

Question 35

What did Martin Luther do to protest the Church's selling of indulgences in 1517?

Accepted Answer

he posted his 95 theses on the local church door

Question 36

What major conflict was fought between Catholics and Lutherans in the 1600s?

Accepted Answer

The 30 Years War

Question 37

To stop this relative from scheming against her, Elizabeth I had her (the relative) beheaded...

Accepted Answer

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 38

Angela Merici founded which religious order to educate women?

Accepted Answer

The Ursulines

Question 39

What was the first Protestant religion to emerge during the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Church of England, Lutheranism

Question 40

Which is true of the Peace of Augsburg?

Accepted Answer

It allowed German princes to convert to Lutheranism.

Question 41

This term refers to a belief in the separation of church and government institutions.

Accepted Answer

secularism

Question 42

The Renaissance began in what modern-day country?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 43

Which was NOT a criticism of the Catholic Church that contributed to the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

the Church was not building enough cathedrals across Europe

Question 44

Which of the following was not involved in the War of the Three Henrys?

Accepted Answer

Henry II

Question 45

Why did Martin Luther first protest the Catholic Church in 1517?

Accepted Answer

to protest the sale of indulgences

Question 46

She earned the nickname “bloody” for killing Anglicans & trying to restore Catholicism.

Accepted Answer

Mary Tudor (Mary I)

Question 47

What religious reformer first brought Luther’s ideas to Switzerland?

Accepted Answer

Ulrich Zwingli

Question 48

All of the following are branches of Protestant Christianity except ___.

Accepted Answer

Catholic

Question 49

The term Renaissance means _____

Accepted Answer

rebirth

Question 50

Which is not a central tenet of Lutheranism?

Accepted Answer

indulgences are necessary to get to heaven

Question 51

Early Renaissance artists used the technique seen here to emphasize what was most important.

Accepted Answer

hieratic scale

Question 52

The Defenestration of Prague is important because it ___.

Accepted Answer

started the 30 Years War

Question 53

Why did Henry VIII break with the Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

to divorce Catherine of Aragon

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