Letters to leader Unit 2 Exam

Question 1

Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which a new way of thinking about the world emerged based on careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs?

Answer 1

Scientific Revolution

Question 2

Which of the following time periods is defined as a period in which there was a creation of a Christian Church which rejected the Pope’s authority?

Answer 2

Reformation

Question 3

Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which the Scientific Method and reason were applied to all aspects of society?

Answer 3

Enlightenment

Question 4

Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which there was an explosion of creativity in art and learning?

Answer 4

Renaissance

Question 5

Which of the following time periods is also known as the Age of Reason?

Answer 5

Enlightenment

Question 6

Which of the following time periods occurred largely between 1300 and 1600?

Answer 6

Renaissance

Question 7

Which of the following time periods occurred largely during 1517 and 1648?

Answer 7

Reformation

Question 8

Which of the following time periods occurred largely during the 1600 and 1700s?

Answer 8

Enlightenment

Question 9

Medici Family

Answer 9

Renaissance

Question 10

Machiavelli

Answer 10

Renaissance

Question 11

Galileo Galilei

Answer 11

Enlightenment

Question 12

Queen Elizabeth I

Answer 12

Renaissance

Question 13

William Shakespeare

Answer 13

Rrnsiddssssnce

Question 14

Sir Isaac Newton

Answer 14

Scientific Revolution

Question 15

Johann Gutenberg

Answer 15

Renaissance

Question 16

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 16

Scientific Revolution

Question 17

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 17

Scientific Revolution

Question 18

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley

Answer 18

Scientific Revolution

Question 19

Martin Luther

Answer 19

Reformation

Question 20

Pope Leo X

Answer 20

Reformation

Question 21

King Henry VIII

Answer 21

Reformation

Question 22

Index of Forbidden Books

Answer 22

Reformation

Question 23

Act of Supremacy passed in England making King Henry VIII head of his own church

Answer 23

Reformation

Question 24

Ignatius of Loyola forms the Society of Jesus; members known as Jesuits

Answer 24

Reformation

Question 25

The development of the printing press

Answer 25

Renaissance

Question 26

German Peasant Revolt of 1524

Answer 26

Reformation

Question 27

Council of Trent

Answer 27

Reformation

Question 28

Creation of the Anglican Church

Answer 28

Reformation

Question 29

Queen Elizabeth I’s (English) navy defeats the Spanish Armada

Answer 29

Reformation

Question 30

Books began to be written in the vernacular

Answer 30

Renaissance

Question 31

Bubonic Plague eases and travel between countries resume

Answer 31

Renaissance

Question 32

Which of the following is not a reason the Renaissance began in Italy?

Answer 32

Highly religious population

Question 33

Which of the following was not one of the main ideas that characterized the Renaissance?

Answer 33

Scientific Progress

Question 34

Which of the following was not an effect of the printing press?

Answer 34

Germany rose to power because they invented the printing press

Question 35

What of the following was not an event or cause that spurred the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 35

The discoveries of Newton and Copernicus that called into question the Church’s absolute authority

Question 36

Which of the following was not one of the main ideas of Luther’s 95 Theses?

Answer 36

The Roman Catholic Church was and always had been corrupt

Question 37

Who were the Huguenots?

Answer 37

Protestant/Calvinist group in France

Question 38

Which of the following is not one of the 3 activities on which the Jesuits focused?

Answer 38

Providing services to the poor and hungry

Question 39

Which of the following was not one of the doctrines decided upon at the Council of Trent?

Answer 39

Only Church tradition should be used to guide Christian life

Question 40

Who discovered the laws of the pendulum?

Answer 40

Who discovered the laws of the pendulum?

Question 41

Why did the Church fear Galileo’s teachings?

Answer 41

If people believed the Church could be wrong on so many laws of nature and our universe, then about what else could they be wrong?

Question 42

Who discovered the law of universal gravitation?

Answer 42

Newton

Question 43

Which of the following is an example of the ideas of Thomas Hobbes?

Answer 43

Humans need government to keep order, without it chaos would reign

Question 44

Which of the following is an example of the ideas of John Locke?

Answer 44

All humans are born free and equal with natural rights

Question 45

Which of the following was not an impact of the Enlightenment?

Answer 45

A complete rejection of the church

Question 46

What is an Enlightened Despot?

Answer 46

Absolute ruler who adopted the ideas of the Enlightenment

Question 47

Which of the following rights in the U.S. Bill of Rights comes from a provision in the Magna Carta?

Answer 47

the right to due process of law

Question 48

Which statement best summarizes the idea of representative government as it was established in the English Bill of Rights?

Answer 48

Laws are made and carried out by a group that acts for the people.

Question 49

English colonists in America expected to have representative government in the colonies because

Answer 49

there was a tradition of representative government in England.

Question 50

The idea that governments get their power from the people they govern is called

Answer 50

popular sovereignty.

Question 51

The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen both

Answer 51

emphasize the rights of the individual.

Question 52

The term “unalienable rights” in the American Declaration of Independence refers to rights that

Answer 52

a government cannot take away.