1. What was the Edict of Nantes?

a) Church edict to capture Martin Luther

b) Edict which granted the Huguenots political/military privileges

c) Order to end the Peasants War

d) Law that made Protestantism an official religion

2. Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses about ________________

a) Protestantism

b) Anticlericalism

c) Humanism

d) Indulgences

3. What was the purpose of the Council of Trent?

a) Trial of Martin Luther

b) Meeting to stop the Peasants War

c) Catholic response to the Reformation

d) Begin the Protestant Reformation

4. Who was Europe’s first public intellectual?

a) Martin Luther

b) Thomas More

c) Desiderius Erasmus

d) Nicollai Machiavelli

5. What was vernacular?

a) Language of common folk

b) Study of vocabulary

c) Method of art discovered by Da Vinci

d) Another name for the printing press

6. What was “the demystification of the world”?

a) Discovery that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun

b) Shift in people’s belief and priority to the Catholic Church

c) Instability of Europe and the rest of the world after the Protestant Reformation

d) Concepts of magic being replaced by basic science

7. Indulgences were _________________

a) Different forms of payment to the church to take away sins

b) Donations to support Martin Luther’s reformation

c) Daily prayers at the church to take away sins

d) Daily prayers which supported Martin Luther’s reformation

8. The forefront of life in the 1500s was _______________

a) Education

b) Government

c) Reformation

d) Religion

9. Which statement about the Renaissance is FALSE?

a) French word for rebirth

b) Impacted the lives everyone even the poor and destitute

c) Artistic and intellectual revolution

d) Considered one of the many results of the printing press

10. Which statement about the printing press is FALSE?

a) Books went from rare to common and from expensive to cheap

b) Fostered news and propaganda making it a cause of the Reformation

c) It was originally invented by the Chinese and Gutenberg brought it to Europe

d) After its invention, still mostly only males could read & write