Unit 3 Test
Directions: Answer all questions by selecting the best
possible answer.
Base your answers to questions 1 - 3 on the speakers’
statements below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Speaker A: The chief problem with the Roman Catholic
Church is the practice of selling indulgences. The only way for
Christians to receive salvation is through faith alone.
Speaker B: If Christians want to be saved, they should perform
good deeds and ask for forgiveness of sins. The granting of
indulgences allows Christians to be excused for their sins.
Speaker C: It is true that the Bible, and not members of the
clergy, is the ultimate source of religious truth. However, God
has already decided who will be saved and who will not.
Speaker D: Since the Pope does not agree with my position, I
have decided to separate from the Roman Catholic Church. I
am now not only the ruler of England but also of the Anglican
Church.
1. Which speaker most closely reflects the ideas of Henry
VIII?
a. speaker A
b. speaker B
c. speaker C
d. speaker D
2. Which speaker best supports the idea of predestination
taught by John Calvin?
a. speaker A
b. speaker B
c. speaker C
d. speaker D
3. Which speaker exemplifies the ideas of Martin Luther?
a. speaker A
b. speaker B
c. speaker C
d. speaker D
4.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses were a call for ...
religious revolt against the German princes
greater Papal authority
crusades to spread Christianity
reforms within the Roman Catholic Church
5. One impact Gutenberg’s printing press had on Western
Europe was ...
a. the spread of Martin Luther’s ideas
b. a decrease in the number of universities
c. a decline in literacy
d. the unification of the Holy Roman Empire
6. What is meant by Machiavelli’s belief that the “end
justifies the means?”
a. Leaders may use any method to maintain their power
b. the general public always acts in its own best interest
c. pleasing all of the people at any given time is impossible
d. leaders must always act for the common good
7. A major reason that the Renaissance began in Italy was
that ...
a. Italian city-states had grown wealthy from trade between
Europe and Asia
b. Italian farmers produced great agricultural surpluses on
Italy's vast plains
c. the Italians' military strength
d. many European scholars had migrated to Italy
8.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The humanists of the Renaissance ...
had little interest in the spiritual life of people
lacked interest in Ancient Greek and Roman culture
rejected Christian principles
emphasized the abilities of the individual
9. One way Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII
were similar is that they were all ...
a. English military leaders
b. Protestant Reformation leaders
c. Renaissance painters
d. divine right monarchs
10. A direct impact the printing press had on 16th century
Europe was that it encouraged the ...
a. spread of ideas
b. beginnings of communism
c. establishment of democracy
d. development of industrialization
11. Martin Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses is considered
by many to be a turning point in history because ...
a. the Pope’s right to sell indulgences was strengthened
b. the political power of the Catholic church was lessened
c. Luther became the leader of Germany
d. the Roman Catholic church unified Germany
12. “…Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in
error, who say that through the Pope’s indulgences a man
is freed from every penalty, and saved…”
Which period in European history is most directly related
to this statement?
a. The Age of Exploration
b. The Scientific Revolution
c. The Protestant Reformation
d. The Crusades
13 . Which innovation led to the following developments?
• Literacy rates rose
• Shakespeare's sonnets circulated
• Secular ideas spread
a.
b.
c.
d.
The astrolabe
Paper currency
The printing press
The caravel
14. One way in which the writers of the Renaissance were
influenced by the writers of ancient Greece was that the
Renaissance writers ...
a. stressed the power of human reason
b. promoted the religious doctrines of the Roman Catholic
church
c. showed little interest in secular affairs
d. produced few new scientific ideas
15.
• The rebirth of art and learning was a central theme.
• Wealthy patrons supported the arts and education.
• The classical cultures of Greece and Rome were imitated.
• Literature began to appear in the vernacular languages
rather than just in Latin.
• Humanism spread throughout Western Europe..
Which period in European history is most closely
associated with the above statements?
a. early Middle Ages
b. Protestant Reformation
c. Hellenistic Period
d. Renaissance
16. What was a major result of the Reformation?
a. new Christian denominations emerged
b. religious teachings were no longer allowed in the
universities
c. the Crusades were launched
d. the power of the Pope was strengthened
17. "... it is much safer to be feared than loved
because ...love is preserved by the link of
obligation which, owing to the baseness of men,
is broken at every opportunity for their
advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of
punishment which never fails.”
Which philosopher most likely wrote this statement?
a. Baron de Montesquieu
b. Erasmus
c. Niccolò Machiavelli
d. Thomas More
18. Which Renaissance master, besides painting works
such as the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper," was also
an inventor and dissected corpses to create some of the
first detailed anatomical drawings of the human body?
a. Raphael
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Michelangelo
d. Donatello
19. Martin Luther endorsed all of the following ideas
EXCEPT:
a. Prayer to saints and the Virgin Mary is idolatrous and
therefore forbidden by the Ten Commandments
b. The Bible is the sole source of religious truth and the edicts
of the pope are therefore meaningless
c. The Jewish faith should be respected and all persecution of
it is sinful
d. Sacraments such as confession are unnecessary since
anyone can commune with God directly
20. "Paul testifies that the Church is built on the foundation of
the apostles and prophets, (Eph. 2:20). If the doctrine of the
apostles and prophets is the foundation of the Church, the
former must have had its certainty before the latter began to
exist... For if the Christian Church was founded at first on the
writings of the prophets, and the preaching of the apostles, that
doctrine ... was certainly ascertained and sanctioned [before]
the Church, since, but for this, the Church herself never could
have existed. Nothing therefore can be more absurd than the
fiction, that the power of judging Scripture is in the Church,
and that on her nod its certainty depends."
-- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, (1559)
John Calvin claims that the foundation of the church is
built on ...
a. The spiritual leadership of the Pope
b. The Holy Scriptures
c. The Jewish Tanakh
d. The preachings of Paul