Exact questions taken from exams this year. If the statement does not make sense it is due to the fact that it is a sentence fragment in need of completion with multiple choice options. . .or it states which of the following is NOT correct. Use these to guide/direct to areas of focus for study.
Chapter 11 (Middle Ages) Exam
1.What is the best definition for the system of feudalism?
2.How did Dante make the “Divine Comedy” a political satire of his time?
3.What was the Great Schism?
4.Why do historians refer to the Middle Ages as the "Dark Ages" as well?
5.What does the ideal of chivalry apply to?
6.Which of the following is true after the Black Death hit Europe?
7.The progress of the Hundred Years' War was characterized by?
8.Why was the 100 Years War such a long, drawn out, bloody conflict?
9.Which of the following is true of religion in 14th century Europe?
10.What does it mean to write in the vernacular?
Chapter 12 (Renaissance) Exam
11.This intellectual movement tried to apply the wisdom of the ancients to the Renaissance world?
12.The Northern Renaissance most importantly differed from the Renaissance in Italy in that
13.Italy became the center of the Renaissance due to all of the reasons except for:
14.Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Italian Renaissance?
15.The invention of movable type led to all of the following except
16.The most influential book on the Renaissance court life and behavior was
17.Which of the following statements best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?
18.Machiavelli's ideas as expressed in The Prince achieve a model for
19.Neoplatonism was based on two primary ideas
20.Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man stated that
21.Liberal education in the Renaissance included all of the following except
22.Italian artists in the fifteenth century began to
23.The funding of art by the Medici family shows which of the following Renaissance principles?
Chapter 13 (Protestant Reformation) Exam
24.Which of the following was a problem with the Church according to the reformers?
25.Who is someone that is accused of committing crimes against the Church?
26.When and where were Martin Luther’s 95 theses nailed on the church door?
27.What occurred at the Diet of Worms to Martin Luther?
28.Why did Henry VIII call for the Reformation Parliament?
29.What was the theocracy of Geneva?
30.In 1540 the pope backed this leader and his new monastic order called the Jesuits?
31.Which of the following was NOT a decision of the Council of Trent?
32.In the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, how did the German princes agree that the religion of each state would be decided?
33.In France, the Protestant minority were known as
34.The Edict of Nantes was all of the following except it
Chapter 14 (Age of Exploration) Exam
35.The primary motive for European exploration during the Renaissance was?
36.In the 1440s, among the first profits the Portuguese derived from their maritime exploration and returning ships came from the sale of?
37.The first known circumnavigation of the earth was by
38.Which of the following statements best applies to the economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe?
39.Mercantilism includes all of the following ideas except:
40.What was not part of the Columbian exchange?
41.How was Cortez able to defeat the Aztec’s upon his return trip to their city?
42.What was the main reason why Spain became such an important country in Europe in the 1500’s?
43.Why would natives hold resentment toward the arrival of Christopher Columbus?
44.How does the term ethnocentrism explain European reasoning for their treatment of natives?
45.What does the term triangular trade reference?
46.What long-term effect did the Treaty of Tordesillas have?
Chapter 15 (Absolute Monarchs) Exam
47.What is the age of Europe where ruling families had complete power over all aspects of their countries?
48.What is the divine right of kings?
49.The most successful of the absolute rulers of the 17th century were those who
50.This religious group wanted to purify the Church of England and was in direct conflict with the leadership of Charles I?
51.After the dictatorship of Cromwell which English monarch was invited back to rule England in what is known as the Restoration Monarchy?
52. After the Bloodless Revolution what affected the conditions of power for the new monarchs?
53.Who was the Sun King of France?
54.What was the Edict of Nantes?
55.What palace did Louis XIV build as the center of his government?
56.Who was the finance minister that strengthened France’s trade and industry?
57.What family of czar’s ruled Russia for over 300 years?
58.What religious background made Russia different from the rest of Europe?
59.What does it mean for Russia to be landlocked?
60.What was the reasoning for the construction of St. Petersburg?
61.As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648
62.Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe?
63.The series of noble revolts known as the Fronde resulted in
64.The War of the Spanish Succession was effectively concluded with the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 which
65.Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau
66.After 1648, the "Holy Roman Empire"
Chapter 16 - SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TEST
67.What was the theological criticism of Copernican ideas?
68.The origins of the Scientific Revolution can be traced to
69.Scholars devoted to Hermeticism believed
70.The general conception of the universe before Copernicus was that
71.Kepler's laws of planetary motion
72.The first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope was
73.Which of the following individuals was NOT one of the scientist that Newton followed to build his own ideas of motion and astronomy?
74.Which of the following terms best describes a scientist like Newton’s attempt to explain the mechanical system of the universe being connected to heavenly forces?
75.Paracelsus revolutionized the world of medicine in the sixteenth century by
76.Which of the following terms explains Paracelsus view that the human body was just a smaller version of the same forces working in the rest of the universe?
77.How did historical developments aid the content and quality of the book On the Fabric of the Human Body
78.William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood refuted the ideas of
79.The overall effect of the Scientific Revolution on the argument about women was to
80.Descartes believed that the world could be understood by
81.What has been the impact of Decartes “I think therefore I am” on Western philosophy?
82.The steps of Bacon’s scientific method can best be described as what?
83.Benedict Spinoza
84.In his work Pensees, Pascal
85.The scientific societies of early modern Europe established the first
Chapter 17 - Enlightenment Test
86.In what country did the Enlightenment begin?
87.Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended
88.Who is credited with being the first enlightened thinker?
89.Which enlightened concept is upheld by the Candide quote “with the consent of the nation, they ordained that no inhabitant of our little kingdom should ever leave it?”John Locke's philosophy contributed to the development of Enlightenment ideas by arguing
90.that a person's character was shaped by
91.In writing about the sea monster Leviathan, this author was insinuating that people need to be controlled by an absolute monarch otherwise they would destroy themselves?
92.Which of the following is the best description of the political continuum that existed between Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau?
93.Above all, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws was concerned with
94.How are the theories of selfishness, competition, and supply and demand explained by enlightened economist?
95.Which book by Mary Wollstonecraft accurately reflects her contributions to Enlightenment?
96.What did the salon parties reveal about Enlightened culture?
97.Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism, intolerance, and prudery was his
98.How were reading and literacy important during the Enlightenment?
99.Which of the following best describes the French philsophe approach to religion?
100.Which of the following is the best description of the Rococo style of art?
101.focus placed upon power and movement through intense colors
102.emphasis on grace and gentle action with curves and natural objects
103.religious glorification of all things dealing with God
104.creation of landscapes that were done in black and white
105.individual portraits done of all the great Enlightened philosophes
106.John Wesley contributed to religious change in the Enlightenment when he
107.A religious movement that was a response to the stagnation of Protestantism during the eighteenth century was called
108.European society in the eighteenth century witnessed
109.The improvements in agricultural practices and methods in eighteenth-century Europe occurred primarily in