AP Euro Unit 2 Quiz
- 1.In the second half of the sixteenth century, Germany was made up of:
- A.
Two major kingdoms
- B.
About 360 autonomous political entities
- C.
Four rival political blocs
- D.
Three major kingdoms
- E.
Give rival political blocks
- 2.Why did Calivinism complicate the already comlpicated religious situation in Germany?
- A.
Calvinism was a pacifist religion, and Calvinists refused to serve in the military
- B.
Calvinists formed an alliance with Catholics against Lutherans
- C.
Calvinists supported peasant revolts
- D.
Calvinism was not included in the Peace of Augsberg religious/political settlement, but the Elector of Palatine converted to Calvinism
- E.
Calvinists seized power in Bavaria, a powerful German state
- 3.Which event set off the first phase of the Thirty Years War?
- A.
The king of Denmark, a Lutheran, invades Germany
- B.
Richelieu declares an alliance with Protestant Germany
- C.
A Catholic comes to the throne in protestant Bohemia, and attempts to restore Catholicism with the help of the Holy Roman Emperor
- D.
The Bohemians revolt against Bavarian rule
- E.
Saxony invades Bavaria
- 4.Richelieu involves France on the side of the Protestants because:
- A.
He converted to Calvinism
- B.
He wanted to keep the Habsburg (Austrian) armies tied down in Germany
- C.
He wanted to seize German territory
- D.
His military cheif, Wallenstein, urged him to enter the war on the side of Sweden
- E.
He wanted to be named the Holy Roman Emperor
- 5.The Treaty of Westphalia: (more than one answer)
- A.
Made peace between the Holy Roman Empire and France
- B.
Allowed leaders to choose the religion that their people would pracitce
- C.
Acknowledged Calvinism as a legal religion
- D.
Restablished the laws of the Peace of Augsberg
- 6.The Treaty of Westphalia caused many large empires to branch off into smaller individual countries
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The Catholic Counter-Reformation spirit was reflected in this form of art:
- A.
Modernism
- B.
Classicism
- C.
Neoclassicism
- D.
Romanticism
- E.
Baroque
- 8.Henry IV is famous for saying
- A.
"Paris is worth a mass"
- B.
"Death to the heretics"
- C.
"Vive la difference"
- D.
"Where there is fire there is smoke"
- 9."Politiques" such as England's Elizabeth I tended to have this view of religion:
- A.
They were well known for their own personal piety and devotion
- B.
They were committed to suppressing heresy
- C.
They encouraged moderation and toleration
- D.
They argued that religion has no influence on politics
- E.
They embraced Christian pacifism
- 10.Article I of the Edict of Nantes proclaims that:
- A.
All French citizens must become Catholics
- B.
Henry IV is now king
- C.
Protestants may worship freely, but have to pay an additional tax
- D.
The memory of France's religious wars is to be entirely wiped out
- E.
Hugenots may not hold public office
- 11.The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre was an attack on:
- A.
Parisian elites
- B.
German peasants
- C.
French Hugenots
- D.
Dutch merchants
- E.
Italian laborers
- 12.The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre caused the protestants to adjust their political theory in order to revolt against tyrannic leaders
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Phillip II did not inherit his father Charles V's Austrian lands because:
- A.
The Austrians revolted against Spanish rule
- B.
Charles V himself split his kingdom, giving the eastern half to his brother, Phillip's uncle
- C.
Charles V had only ruled Austria because it was his wife's inheritance
- D.
Phillip II thought that the empire would be too large for him to rule
- E.
The Spanish refused to make Phillip II king unless he renounced the Austrian possessions
- 14.All of the following were effects that American wealth had on Europe EXCEPT:
- A.
Inflation
- B.
Popultion growth, especially in the towns
- C.
Growing differences between rich and poor
- D.
Growth of a more efficient bureaucracy and military, paid for by America silver and gold
- E.
Spainish military victories against England and the Netherlands
- 15.This event ignited the revolt of the Netherlands:
- A.
Phillip II's insistence that the Council of Trent be enforced throughout the Netherlands
- B.
Phillip II's efforts to raise a Dutch army to fight the English
- C.
The Perpetual Edict
- D.
Dutch efforts to create a centralized, unified republic
- E.
The Spanish massacre of Dutch Calvinists
- 16.The most important naval battle of the 16th century, won by Phillip II, was the Battle of:
- A.
Kosovo
- B.
Genoa
- C.
Lepanto
- D.
Utrecht
- E.
The Aegean
- 17.All of the following were causes of England's war with Spain EXCEPT:
- A.
The Duke of Alba's invasion of the Netherlands
- B.
French massacres of Protestants, which left England the only defender of the Protestants
- C.
Spain's attacks on English privateers seizing Spanish treasure ships
- D.
Mary Queen of Scot's Catholic-backed plot against Queen Elizabeth
- E.
Elizabeth I's radical Protestantism, which was opposed to all forms of Catholicism
- 18.Protestants were more likely than Catholics to:
- A.
Advocate religious tolerance
- B.
Permit premartial sex
- C.
Educate girls
- D.
Advocate religious violence
- E.
Advocate gender equality
- 19.Reform efforts at the Council of Trent included all of the following EXCEPT:
- A.
Several doctrinal concessions to the reformers
- B.
Creation of new seminaries
- C.
Reform of the office of bishop
- D.
Efforts to control the morality of churchmen
- E.
Steps to curtail the sale of church offices
- 20.Protestant reformers tended to do all of the following EXCEPT:
- A.
Favor clerical marriage
- B.
Encourage basic education
- C.
Oppose monasticism
- D.
Encourage a choice of virginity over marriage, which was seen as a degraded state
- E.
Attempt to use state power to enforce morality
- 21.Henry VIII's heir, Edward VI was:
- A.
Protestant
- B.
Catholic
- C.
Calvinist
- D.
Lutheran
- 22.All of the following undermined the authority of the medieval church EXCEPT:
- A.
The "exile" in Avignon
- B.
The Great Schism, with competing popes
- C.
The Conciliar movement
- D.
The laity toward (unwillingness to attack) hereticial movements such as the Albigensians
- E.
The excesses of Reniassance popes
- 23.The Reformation broke out first in:
- A.
The prosperous parts of Holland
- B.
London and other English cities
- C.
The French countryside
- D.
Austria
- E.
The free imperial cities of Germany and Switzerland
- 24.The benefice system:
- A.
Allowed important ecclesiatical posts to be sold to the highest bidder
- B.
Distributed charity throughout Europe
- C.
Allowed poor men and women to become nuns and monks
- D.
Was first developed by the Brothers of Common Life
- E.
Was supported by most lay Catholics
- 25.According to Calvins doctrine of predestination:
- A.
God had foreordained who will be saved and who will be punished
- B.
Christians must set salvation as their only goal before it can be achieved
- C.
Theological doctrine must begin with the ends of faith and then work back to the means
- D.
Only men are capable of salvation
- E.
Divorce is a mortal sin
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