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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Council of Trent

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Would you characterize the Reformation and Counter-Reformation as popular movements or as the result of carefully orchestrated policies formulated by clerical and secular leaders? To what degree did the peoples of Europe make reform, and to what degree did figures of spiritual and temporal authority?

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Desiderius Erasmus stressed the quest for inner piety rather than the external forms of religiosity such as the sacraments, pilgrimages, and fasts.

A) True
B) False

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Spanish Armada

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The Spanish Armada refers to a large nav...

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. the Edict of Worms

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Which religious group advocated for the complete separation of church and state?


A) Catholics
B) Anabaptists
C) Lutherans
D) Calvinists
E) Dominicans

F) All of the above
G) A) and C)

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Puritans

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The Puritans were a group of English Pro...

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In the sixteenth century, Switzerland


A) was unified under the firm control of the Holy Roman Empire.
B) was a leader in promoting Renaissance humanist education.
C) became Europe's greatest economic power under the Swiss confederation.
D) was the principal source of religious books in all of Europe.
E) was made up of thirteen cantons, under the leadership of wealthy bourgeoisie.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

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The Catholic Reformation saw the revival of monasticism and


A) asceticism.
B) mysticism.
C) secularism.
D) heathenism.
E) paganism.

F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

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An estimated ____ percent of the French nobility became Huguenots.


A) 10 to 15
B) 40 to 50
C) 70 to 80
D) 60 to 65
E) 5 to 10

F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. pluralism

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Which event precipitated Luther's break with the church?


A) The Council of Pisa's declaration that maintained the necessity of Purgatory for salvation
B) The increase of Papal taxes on the German peasantry
C) Widespread sale of indulgences by preaching monks
D) The declaration that the German clergy must pay taxes
E) The papacy's threat to remove the German emperor

F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Under which English monarch did England seek reconciliation with the Catholic Church?


A) Elizabeth I
B) Mary I
C) Henry V
D) Henry VIII
E) Edward VI

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Founder of the group that became known as the Mennonites, Menno Simons was a


A) Spanish priest.
B) Dutch Anabaptist.
C) English monk.
D) Italian lawyer.
E) German merchant.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Who was the greatest advocate of militant Catholicism?


A) Philip II of Spain
B) Henry VII of England
C) Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire
D) Henry IV of France
E) James IV of Scotland

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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What was one of the beliefs of the Anabaptists?


A) They opposed the practice of baptism.
B) They believed infant baptism only.
C) They emphasized the inequality of believers.
D) They advocated adult baptism.
E) They wanted to peacefully merge with the Calvinists and Lutherans.

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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The Marburg Colloquy produced a lasting alliance among Protestant sects.

A) True
B) False

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The early fifteenth-century religious reformer who was burned at the stake was


A) John Wycliffe.
B) Erasmus.
C) Ignatius of Loyola.
D) John Calvin.
E) John Hus.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Thomas More's Utopia served as a blistering criticism of the Catholic Church and a call for theological reform.

A) True
B) False

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The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 involved the massacring of nearly 3,000 Huguenots in Paris.

A) True
B) False

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