Unit II Review

Which of the following statements best describes the importance of Italian city-states to the Renaissance?

• Knowledge of arts increased as nobles and merchants sought to display their new wealth.
• The Catholic Church, dominant in the city-states, published the first Bible.
• Italian shipbuilders brought paintings and sculpture back from China and India.
• As agricultural centers, city-states produced an abundance of crops, and sold them to foreign markets.

The Diet of Worms where Martin Luther was excommunicated was named after

• a city in England.
• a famous diet in the 1500's.
• a city in Germany.
• what birds supposedly eat.

Humanism was inspired by new interest in

• Greek and Roman culture and art
• the Catholic Church.
• Buddhist philosophy.
• Scientific writings.

Increasing numbers of people learned to read after the mid-1400s because

• most people had ample free leisure time.
• most people had ample disposable income.
• printed materials became more available.
• illumination like the lightbulb made works of literature extremely beautiful.

Which of the following occurred as a result of Martin Luther’s stand against indulgences?

• Germany rejected Lutheranism and remained Roman Catholic.
• Lutheranism spread first to England and Scotland, then to France and Italy.
• Henry VIII started a new religion in England called Anabaptism.
• The Protestant Reformation began.

Which of the following statements is best supported by the map titled "Spread of Protestantism"?

• Protestantism spread from London to Ireland.
• Lutheranism spread from Switzerland to Spain.
• Protestantism spread all over Northern Europe.
• Calvinism took over England and Scotland.

Which person had six different wives and contributed to the Reformation by starting the Anglican Church?

• John Calvin
• King Henry VIII
• Martin Luther
• George Washington

The Church’s scholastic education gave way to new learning in the subjects of grammar, art, poetry, and history and inspired the movement known as

• humanism.
• secularism.
• the Protestant Reformation.
• the vernacular.

Johannes Gutenberg’s invention has been described as revolutionary because

• with easier access to books, more people learned to read and more books were printed.
• with oil paints, Renaissance artists could paint much more detail than they could with watercolors.
• coupled with a large pool of unemployed workers, it led to early industrialization in parts of Central Europe.
• until guilds were created, craftspeople were unable to control the goods they produced.

What did the Edict of Worms decree about Martin Luther?

• It named him leader of the Catholic Church.
• It applauded him and made publishing his writings easier.
• It named him king of Germany.
• It excommunicated him and made him an outlaw