World History Practice Test: Renaissance and Reformation
- Renaissance and Reformation
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
Ten questions on Europe from about 1350 to 1600. Tip: for Reformation questions, ask what each leader disagreed with and what he set up instead.
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Question 1
In which Italian city did the Medici banking family support artists and scholars, helping the Renaissance to flourish?
Correct answer: A
The Medici paid artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo in Florence. Milan was ruled by the Sforza family.
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Question 2
What did Renaissance humanists emphasize?
Correct answer: D
Humanists read ancient authors to learn about ethics, history and good government. Most humanists were Christians who combined faith with classical learning.
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Question 3
Which artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and carved the marble statue of David in Florence?
Correct answer: B
Michelangelo finished the David in 1504 and the Sistine ceiling in 1512. Donatello also made a famous David, but in bronze and decades earlier.
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Question 4
How did Johannes Gutenberg's printing press with movable type, developed around 1450, change Europe?
Correct answer: C
Printing made books affordable for many more people and helped spread both Renaissance and Reformation ideas. Latin remained the language of universities for a long time.
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Question 5
In 1517 Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses. What practice did they mainly attack?
Correct answer: B
Luther objected to the claim that paying for indulgences could reduce punishment for sins. His wider break with Rome came in the following years.
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Question 6
Which belief was central to Martin Luther's teaching?
Correct answer: D
Luther taught that faith alone saves and that the Bible is the highest authority, which is why he translated it into German. The other statements describe views he rejected.
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Question 7
Why did King Henry VIII break with the Roman Catholic Church and become head of the Church of England in 1534?
Correct answer: A
Henry wanted to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The Act of Supremacy made the king, not the Pope, head of the English church.
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Question 8
Which reformer led the Protestant movement in Geneva and taught predestination, the belief that God decides in advance who will be saved?
Correct answer: C
Calvin's teachings spread to the Netherlands, Scotland and France. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits, a Catholic order.
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Question 9
What did the Catholic Church do at the Council of Trent (1545-1563)?
Correct answer: D
Trent was the center of the Catholic Reformation: it kept Catholic doctrine but tightened discipline and training of priests. The Avignon papacy had happened in the 1300s.
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Question 10
Under the Peace of Augsburg (1555), who decided whether a German territory would be Lutheran or Catholic?
Correct answer: B
The rule was later summed up as "whose realm, his religion." Individuals who disagreed often had to move to another territory.
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