2.3 The prelude to the Dutch Revolt (test 1)

Question 1

Gewesten

Answer 1

The seventeen provinces that formed the Low Countries

Question 2

States general

Answer 2

A general meeting with representatives from all provinces

Question 3

Governor

Answer 3

The person who rules an area for the King while he is away

Question 4

Tolerance

Answer 4

To allow things that are forbidden by the government of your country, or that are not common

Question 5

Stadtholder

Answer 5

A nobleman who represented the king in one or more provinces

Question 6

Compromise of Nobles

Answer 6

A petition of Dutch nobles for Philip II to lower taxes, return some of the provinces’ power and ease up on the persecution of protestants

Question 7

Iconoclastic fury

Answer 7

Destruction and theft of art in churches, nunneries and monasteries throughout the Low Countries

Question 8

Council of troubles

Answer 8

A special tribunal sent by Philip II or the Low Countries to convict the people involved in the Iconoclastic Fury