Question 1

The Roman Catholic Church condemned François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel for

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A)  being a frivolous work of fiction.
B)  attacking medieval theology's dogmas and sacraments.
C)  glorifying Martin Luther's ideas about reforming the Church.
D)  including violence and bawdy humor.

Question 2

Martin Luther rejected the Church's doctrine that good deeds and work lead to salvation,because he believed that

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A)  God elected people at birth to be saved or damned.
B)  infant baptism guaranteed salvation.
C)  faith alone would provide salvation.
D)  shunning evil and being moral brought salvation.

Question 3

Why in his later years did Martin Luther claim that the Jews were devils and blasphemers?

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A)  Like the Catholics,the Jews believed in good works leading to salvation.
B)  Many Jews were merchants,which Luther viewed as a sinful occupation.
C)  European Jews sympathized with Muslims,whom Luther called heretics.
D)  Jews did not willingly convert in great numbers to the reformed Christianity.

Question 4

Peter Aertsen painted the Holy Family in the background of The Meat Stall to

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A)  make his graphic painting seem more acceptable.
B)  remind viewers to give thanks to God for their prosperity.
C)  chide viewers for attending to the material instead of the spiritual.
D)  equate animal slaughter with Christ's crucifixion.

Question 5

In Adam and Eve,Dürer includes a cat at Eve's feet ready to pounce on a mouse at Adam's feet.Explain the symbolism of that small portion of his engraving in relation to the entire work's theme.

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The inclusion of the cat and mouse in Dü...

Question 6

Albrecht Dürer's popular and much reproduced The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can be viewed as symbolizing the events of late-fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Western Europe.List the four horsemen,and describe at least two of that period's events that correspond with the horsemen.

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The four horsemen in Albrecht Dürer's Th...

Question 7

Match between columns
                        Premises: Martin Luther
Albrecht Altdorfer
Fran c¸oisRabelais
Desiderius Erasmus
Michel de Montaigne
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Hartmann Schendel
Albrecht Dürer
Lucas Cranach the Elder

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The Answer of Gargantua and pantagruel and "Of Cannibals" and is...

Question 8

Explain how the North's "new," post-Reformation art evolved to overcome the Protestant objection to religious art.

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Question 9

Identify and explain at least three reasons Martin Luther and other Protestants cited to support their anti-Semitic views.

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There are several reasons that Martin Lu...

Question 10

Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament into vernacular German was significant because,with it,people

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A)  could own their own copy of the New Testament.
B)  no longer had to depend on the Church for biblical interpretation.
C)  no longer had to learn Latin to read the Bible.
D)  no longer felt the need to attend Church services.

Question 11

The Church excommunicated Martin Luther in 1521 for

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A)  not appearing at the Diet of Worms.
B)  translating the Bible into German.
C)  marrying a former nun.
D)  heresy.

Question 12

The first major work that Johannes Gutenberg published using his printing press was

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A)  Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses.
B)  Desiderius Erasmus's In Praise of Folly.
C)  Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
D)  The Forty-Two Line Bible.

Question 13

In both Melancholia I and Adam and Eve,light represents

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A)  divine grace.
B)  innocence.
C)  Inspiration.
D)  Knowledge.

Question 14

Explain how the Reformation might never have occurred without the invention of the printing press.

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The invention of the printing press play...

Question 15

In retaliation against Protestant simplicity,Roman Catholics increased the elaborateness of their churches to

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A)  provide charitable employment for architects and artists.
B)  make the Protestant churches seem emotionally empty.
C)  lure the wealthy middle class into returning to Catholicism.
D)  show that the Reformation had not affected the Catholics.

Question 16

Many Northerners were predisposed to finding moral implications in decorative art to

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A)  save it from destruction.
B)  increase its value.
C)  make it more interesting.
D)  justify owning it.

Question 17

Michel de Montaigne invented the

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A)  personal essay.
B)  short story.
C)  memoir.
D)  journal.

Question 18

After the advent of the printing press,continental Europe's best-selling author was

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A)  Martin Luther.
B)  François Rabelais.
C)  William Tyndale.
D)  Hartmann Schedel.

Question 19

Why was mid-sixteenth-century Geneva known as "a paradise for women"?

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A)  Women were permitted to hold public office in Geneva.
B)  Geneva men who beat their wives were severely punished.
C)  Women were encouraged to attend the University of Geneva.
D)  John Calvin decreed that women were equal in every way to men.

Question 20

Compare Luther's ideas about reform with Thomas Müntzer's.

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