Chapter 12 Test Review

1. A noble must have all of these characteristics EXCEPT

a standard education.

 2. In the Italian family, the mother’s chief role was to

supervise the household.

3. Leonardo da Vinci was all of the following EXCEPT a(n)

linguist.

4. ______ was called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism.

Petrarch

5. The Divine Comedy includes all of these three sections EXCEPT

Earth.

6. The Flemish painter Jan van Eyck was one of the first to use and perfect this technique.

oil painting

7. Thomas More’s book Utopia is about

an ideal state.

8. The war between France and Spain for control of Italy ended when the

Spanish mercenaries were let loose to sack the city of Rome.

9. Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he

was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician.

10. Christine de Pizan is best known for her

works written in defense of women.

11. The frescoes painted by ____ have long been regarded as the first masterpieces of early Renaissance art.

Masaccio

12.Christian humanists believed that

if people read the classics, and especially the basic works of Christianity, they would become more pious.

13. Which of the following was the first Protestant faith?

Lutheranism

14. The Peace of Augsburg formally

accepted the division of Christianity in Germany.

15. Part of Calvin’s reformation of the city of Geneva included

the formation of the Consistory.

16. Despite their importance in developing a new view of the family, Protestants

did nothing to change women’s subordinate role in society.

17. Which of the following founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits?

Ignatius of Loyola

18. In 1528, Baldassare Castiglione wrote The Book of the Courtier, which

described the characteristics of a perfect Renaissance noble.

19. Parents in Renaissance Italy carefully arranged marriages, often to

strengthen business or family ties.

20. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is an important work because

Chaucer’s use of the English vernacular was important in making his dialect the chief ancestor of the modern English language.

21. The ____ movement had a profound effect on education.

humanist

22. The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists

Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo

23. Which of the following was the best known of all Christian humanists?

Desiderius Erasmus

24. The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses

attacked the abuses in the sale of indulgences, beginning the Protestant Reformation.

25. Calvin agreed with Luther on most important doctrines EXCEPT

predestination.

26. Both Catholics and Protestants considered the ____ to be dangerous radicals.

Anabaptists

27. What event occurred in 1534?

Church of England separates from Rome.

“Since then Your Majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns and without teeth. Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason—I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other—my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.”   —Here I Stand quoted in A Life of Martin Luther, Roland Bainton

28. According to the passage, Martin Luther opposes

the authority of popes and councils.

“Everyone realizes how praiseworthy it is for a prince to honor his word and to be straightforward rather than crafty in his dealings; nonetheless experience shows that princes who have achieved great things have been those who have given their word lightly, who have known how to trick men with their cunning, and who, in the end, have overcome those abiding by honest principles. . . . A prince, therefore, need not necessarily have all the good qualities I mentioned above, but he should certainly appear to have them. . . . He should not deviate from what is good, if that is possible, but he should know how to do evil, if that is necessary.”   —The Prince, George Bull, trans., 1981

29. According to the passage, a prince must appear to be

good

30. What event occurred in 1498?

Savonarola is sentenced to death for heresy.

31. conquered Milan after the death of the last Visconti ruler 32. took control of Florence from the Medici family 33. based on the study of the literary works of Greece and Rome 34. his masterpiece in the Italian vernacular was the Divine Comedy 35. major goal was the reform of the Catholic Church

31. Francesco Sforza 32. Girolamo Savonarola 33. humanism 34. Dante 35. Christian humanism

36. best known of all the Christian humanists 37. made Martin Luther an outlaw in the Holy Roman Empire 38. belief that God had determined in advance who would be saved and who would be damned 39. established the Church of England in 1534 40. regarded as dangerous radicals by Protestants and Catholics

36. Desiderius Erasmus 37. Edict of Worms 38. predestination 39. Henry VIII 40. Anabaptists

41. This family controlled the government of Florence from behind the scenes. 42. wrote the influential political book The Prince 43. the father of Italian Renaissance humanism 44. wrote The Book of the City of Ladies 45. a release from all or part of the punishment for sin

41. Medici 42. Niccolò Machiavelli 43. Petrarch 44. Christine de Pizan 45. indulgence

46. began the Protestant Reformation 47. downplayed religious dogma and stressed the need to follow the teachings of Jesus 48. introduced Protestant reforms in Zürich 49. published the Institutes of the Christian Religion 50. a special body for enforcing moral discipline

46. Martin Luther 47. the Modern Devotion 48. Ulrich Zwingli 49. John Calvin 50. Consistory