Question 1

What was the staple food of European peasants in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries?

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A)   Meat
B)   Cheese
C)   Vegetables
D)   Grain D

Question 2

Which of the following elements were featured in the typical seventeenth-century opera?

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A)   Dance, drama, and spectacular scenery
B)   An orchestra of sixty instruments and a chorus of forty voices
C)   Original characters and complex, suspenseful stories
D)   Themes designed to appeal to the largely Lutheran audiences

Question 3

Why did seventeenth-century Protestants and Catholics condemn Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius's conception of "natural law"?

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A)   They rejected his argument that natural law scientifically disproved the Ptolemaic, God-centered universe that the church endorsed.
B)   They were threatened by Grotius's belief that humans did not need an official church structure to achieve salvation.
C)   They were outraged by his claims that humans were soulless and that they reverted to a state of natural law where religion had no bearing.
D)   They disapproved of his belief that natural law was beyond divine authority and that natural law, as opposed to scripture or religious authority, should govern politics.

Question 4

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A)   predated the Spanish victory at Lepanto.
B)   were one of the greatest victories of Philipp II of Spain.
C)   saved the English from a Spanish invasion.
D)   brought the Catholic Church back to England under Mary.

Question 5

Why did King Henry IV declare "Paris is worth a Mass"?

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A)   He was a Huguenot but agreed to a Catholic wedding to please his Catholic fiancée and his Catholic subjects.
B)   He converted to Catholicism to ensure his control over France, believing that he needed to place the interests of the state ahead of his Protestant faith.
C)   Despite his personal skepticism, he ordered masses and prayers of protection for Paris.
D)   As a southern French Protestant, he detested Paris and mocked its cathedrals and Catholic traditions.

Question 6

By the end of the Thirty Years' War, the balance of power in Europe

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A)   remained in the hands of the Habsburg rulers of Spain and Austria despite challenges from Protestant powers such as France and England.
B)   had shifted away from the Habsburg powers toward France, England, and the Dutch Republic.
C)   was moving away from secular monarchs and into the hands of religious organizations such as the Roman Catholic church.
D)   had completely collapsed, leaving nearly every European country in political and economic turmoil.

Question 7

What prompted Philip II to send his Spanish Armada against England and Elizabeth I in 1588?

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A)   Elizabeth's alliance with the House of Orange and her support for the Dutch rebellion against Spain
B)   Elizabeth's public remark that the pope had the faith of a pirate, the courage of a nun, and the soul of a Turk
C)   Elizabeth's rejection of an offer of marriage from Philip
D)   Elizabeth's execution of her Catholic cousin Mary, queen of Scots

Question 8

How was the Edict of Nantes designed to restore peace and stability?

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Question 9

Which European ruling family had lost a significant amount of political and economic power by the end of the seventeenth century?

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A)   The Bourbons
B)   The House of Orange
C)   The Valois
D)   The Habsburgs D

Question 10

The massacre of thousands of French Huguenots by Catholic mobs in 1572 enraged Protestants, who argued that they now had a right to resist the government because a contract had been broken. What was this contract, and why did its political significance go beyond the religious conflicts of the period?

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Question 11

How did the pioneers and leaders of the scientific revolution help to secularize politics and society?

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Question 12

How did the basis for the prosperity of the Dutch and the English differ from that of the Spanish? What international political factors beyond their control worked in their favor?

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Question 13

The Thirty Years' War ended in 1648 after the signing of which of the following documents?

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A)   The Edict of Restitution
B)   The Thirty-Nine Articles
C)   The Peace of Westphalia
D)   The Edict of Nantes

Question 14

Although William Shakespeare did not set plays like Hamlet (1601)  in his own era, they nevertheless reflect what primary concern of his age?

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A)   The nature of power and the crisis of authority
B)   The reassertion of masculinity among elites after women such as Elizabeth I took authority
C)   The conviction that great wealth or power leads to moral corruption or even madness
D)   The problem of uncertainty as the scientific revolution led to skepticism A

Question 15

What was one of the chief goals of Ivan the Terrible and his successors?

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A)   To weaken the Holy Roman Emperors enough to take Hungary away from them
B)   To expand and make Muscovy the heart of a mighty Russian Empire
C)   To convert western nobles to Orthodox Christianity and absorb the newly converted territories
D)   To tightly restrict economic, social, and intellectual contact with the "ungodly" West

Question 16

Why did France join in the Thirty Years' War in 1635, more than twenty years after the war began?

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A)   Spain, its Catholic neighbor, needed financial and military assistance to defeat Protestant forces in northern Europe.
B)   The French king Louis XIII hoped to profit from Spain's troubles in the Netherlands and from the Austrian emperor's conflicts with Protestants in his empire.
C)   Louis XIII was secretly a Protestant and hoped to overthrow the Habsburg monarchy in favor of Calvinist governments.
D)   The French king and his ministers hoped to quell domestic unrest by focusing attention on the war abroad.

Question 17

What effect did the economic recession of the early seventeenth century have on European women?

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Question 18

Explain how Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei each challenged the view of the universe that was based on Ptolemy's work.

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Question 19

The career of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)  as chief minister of France

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A)   epitomized a new preference for administrative brilliance over religious conviction.
B)   reflected a new belief in raison d'état, or the primacy of the state's interest above all else.
C)   exposed the complete dependence of French kings on the support of the papacy.
D)   transformed European diplomacy as a result of his creation of the Catholic League.

Question 20

Although serfdom had virtually disappeared in western Europe by the seventeenth century, where did it intensify?

Accepted Answer

A)   Southern Europe
B)   Eastern Europe
C)   The Ottoman Empire
D)   The Spanish Empire

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Why did seventeenth-century Protestants and Catholics condemn Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius's conception of "natural law"?

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