Test 5

Question 1

Luther posted the Ninety-five Theses on October 31 of what year?

Answer 1

1517

Question 2

Joan of Arc, a _______ peasant girl, won several minor battles in the Hundred Years’ War.

Answer 2

French

Question 3

Who were the most important Indian civilization in South America?

Answer 3

Incas

Question 4

Who was a Protestant leader in the Swiss city of Zurich?

Answer 4

Ulrich Zwingli

Question 5

Henry II established the ________ line of kings in England.

Answer 5

Plantagenet

Question 6

The Line of Demarcation divided control of the New World between _______ and Spain.

Answer 6

Portugal

Question 7

Who wrote the important Christian work Institutes of the Christian Religion?

Answer 7

John Calvin

Question 8

William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwin of England in what year?

Answer 8

1066

Question 9

Whose most famous hymn is “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”

Answer 9

Martin Luther

Question 10

What did the Battle of Bosworth Field end?

Answer 10

War of the Roses

Question 11

Who is considered the first great king of England?

Answer 11

Alfred

Question 12

When did King John sign the Magna Carta?

Answer 12

1215

Question 13

What is the French version of Parliament called?

Answer 13

Estates-General

Question 14

What edict declared Luther a heretic and ordered his works burned?

Answer 14

Edict of Worms

Question 15

Name the scholar of the Northern Renaissance that published the first printed edition of the Greek New Testament.

Answer 15

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 16

What Protestant reformer is most known for his work in Geneva?

Answer 16

John Calvin

Question 17

Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 17

Vasco de Balboa

Question 18

Who was the only woman to be both queen of England and queen of France?

Answer 18

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 19

Who invaded Spain in A.D, 711, establishing Cordova as their capital?

Answer 19

the Moors (Muslims)

Question 20

What venetian trader traveled to the Orient and explored the Far East?

Answer 20

Marco Polo

Question 21

Who called the first meeting of Parliament in England?

Answer 21

Simon de Montfort

Question 22

Who discovered Brazil?

Answer 22

Pedro Cabral

Question 23

Who was the first great king of France?

Answer 23

Hugh Capet

Question 24

Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?

Answer 24

Jacques Cartier

Question 25

Who was the first European to reach the Far East by sea?

Answer 25

Vasco de Gama

Question 26

Whose crew circumnavigated the globe?

Answer 26

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 27

Who conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 27

Hernando Cortes

Question 28

Who explored for England?

Answer 28

John Cabot

Question 29

Who translated the Vulgate into French?

Answer 29

Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples

Question 30

Who discovered Florida?

Answer 30

Ponce de Leon

Question 31

The king known for his "Charter of Liberties" was _____ of England.

Answer 31

Henry I

Question 32

Crecy, Poitiers, and ________ were victories for the English in the Hundred Years War.

Answer 32

Agincourt

Question 33

The first printed English translation of the New Testament was done by ______.

Answer 33

William Tyndale

Question 34

Which New World civilization was the most powerful at the beginning of the Age of Exploration?

Answer 34

Aztec

Question 35

Who was the first king of Portugal?

Answer 35

Henriques

Question 36

Who was Katharina von Bora?

Answer 36

Martin Luther's wife

Question 37

El Cid was a national hero in _______.

Answer 37

Spain

Question 38

Why did the Crusades help bring about the Age of Exploration?

Answer 38

New goods brought back from the Orient made Europeans desirous of an all-water route to the East and Oriental ideas in the fields of mathematics and navigation prompted and interest in the East.

Question 39

Who realized that man is saved by faith in Christ, not by works or man-made systems of grace?

Answer 39

Martin Luther

Question 40

The Wars of the Roses were fought between what two houses of England?

Answer 40

Lancaster and York

Question 41

Who was Menno Simons?

Answer 41

Anabaptist preacher

Question 42

Name the great Danish ruler of England who also ruled Denmark and Norway.

Answer 42

Canute

Question 43

Why is the Magna Carta considered to be such an important document to constitutional government?

Answer 43

It established many precedents of freedom, such as trial by jury and habeas corpus

Question 44

where Luther hid as Knight George

Answer 44

Wartburg Castle

Question 45

wandering poets who told epic tales

Answer 45

scops

Question 46

William's record of the census

Answer 46

Domesday Book

Question 47

excused a person from penance or purgatory

Answer 47

indulgences

Question 48

called for by Edward I

Answer 48

Model Parliament

Question 49

site of Luther's Ninety-five Theses, which sparked the Reformation

Answer 49

Wittenberg

Question 50

drove the Moors out of Spain

Answer 50

Reconquista