Question 1

Within a century of the Europeans' arrival in Central America,the native population there declined by as much as:

Accepted Answer

A)  20 percent. 
B)  40 percent. 
C)  50 percent. 
D)  70 percent. 
E)  90 percent.

Question 2

How did the invention of the printing press impact the exchange of knowledge in the early modern world?

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

Erasmus wrote works of all the following types EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  humorous satires and dialogues. 
B)  Christian moral treatises. 
C)  letters to friends and contemporaries. 
D)  treatises of scholastic theology. 
E)  a Greek New Testament.

Question 4

Albrecht Dürer was the first northern European artist to master:

Accepted Answer

A)  Italian Renaissance developments in oil painting. 
B)  Italian Renaissance techniques of engraving. 
C)  Italian Renaissance techniques of proportion and perspective. 
D)  the anatomical precision of Italian Renaissance nudes. 
E)  the Italian Renaissance technique of tempura painting.

Question 5

Portugal came to dominate the Far East spice trade by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  sending trading fleets to India regularly. 
B)  blockading the mouth of the Red Sea. 
C)  blockading the Strait of Gibraltar. 
D)  establishing a series of forts along the west Indian coastline. 
E)  seizing Malacca, a well-known center for the spice trade on the Malay Peninsula.

Question 6

Renaissance architecture emphasized the importance of:

Accepted Answer

A)  rotundas. 
B)  geometrical proportions. 
C)  vaulted arches. 
D)  large, impressive buildings. 
E)  buildings with large windows.

Question 7

The retelling of the Song of Roland in fifteenth-century Italy differed from the original by its:

Accepted Answer

A)  setting, which was changed to Italy from Spain. 
B)  lack of any suggestion of heroic idealism. 
C)  language: the original was in vernacular French and the retelling in Latin. 
D)  ending, which had Roland surviving to be rewarded for his heroism by Charlemagne. 
E)  use of irony to stress the heroic idealism of Roland.

Question 8

The last Muslim territory to fall in Spain was:

Accepted Answer

A)  Toledo in 1085. 
B)  Murica in 1243. 
C)  Seville in 1248. 
D)  Faro in 1249. 
E)  Granada in 1492.

Question 9

The reason galleons and caravels were made so large in this period was to make it possible to arm them more heavily.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The massive influx of silver from New World Spanish colonies resulted in:

Accepted Answer

A)  greater wealth for almost all Europeans. 
B)  a massive devaluation of gold. 
C)  the production of fine silver jewelry for the aristocratic class. 
D)  the Spanish crown hording silver. 
E)  massive inflation.

Question 11

Few if any people believed the world was flat when Columbus began his voyage.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

In economic terms,New World colonization and plunder had the greatest positive effect on the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa. 
B)  Portuguese. 
C)  Spanish. 
D)  English. 
E)  Dutch.

Question 13

How does the Reconquista and Spanish conquests in Central and South America reflect the crusading ethos of the late Middle Ages?

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Question 14

Relatively few of the slaves who passed through the major Ottoman slave markets were Europeans.Most were African.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

After the end of the Hundred Years' War,the French king Charles VIII attempted to expand his territory even further by invading _________ in 1494.

Accepted Answer

A)  The Holy Roman Empire 
B)  Northern Italy 
C)  The kingdom of Aragon 
D)  The kingdom of Navarre 
E)  Holland

Question 16

Hernán Cortés was aided in his conquest of the Aztec Empire by all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  people subjugated by the Aztecs who wanted to rebel. 
B)  a consort who was indigenous and spoke the common language of the empire. 
C)  the European rifles he had brought with him. 
D)  European bacteria. 
E)  the tactical planning of his native allies.

Question 17

Renaissance music had its roots in medieval musical forms.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Machiavelli admired Cesare Borgia for his:

Accepted Answer

A)  civic-mindedness and sense of duty. 
B)  military achievements and humility. 
C)  Christian morality tempered with a willingness to avenge wrongs. 
D)  levity and immorality. 
E)  ruthlessness and shrewdness.

Question 19

In the fifteenth century,the majority of the great painters were from:

Accepted Answer

A)  Venice. 
B)  Rome. 
C)  Pisa. 
D)  Florence. 
E)  Naples.

Question 20

Although Venetian artists copied techniques used in Florence,Venetian paintings differed from those produced in Florence because they:

Accepted Answer

A)  did not generally include philosophical or religious allegories. 
B)  did not use vanishing point perspective. 
C)  included political content in their art. 
D)  were not sponsored by individual patrons. 
E)  were only religious in nature.

Exam 12: Innovation and Exploration 1453-1533

Within a century of the Europeans' arrival in Central America,the native population there declined by as much as:

How did the invention of the printing press impact the exchange of knowledge in the early modern world?

Erasmus wrote works of all the following types EXCEPT:

Albrecht Dürer was the first northern European artist to master:

Portugal came to dominate the Far East spice trade by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

Renaissance architecture emphasized the importance of:

The retelling of the Song of Roland in fifteenth-century Italy differed from the original by its:

The last Muslim territory to fall in Spain was:

The reason galleons and caravels were made so large in this period was to make it possible to arm them more heavily.

The massive influx of silver from New World Spanish colonies resulted in:

Few if any people believed the world was flat when Columbus began his voyage.

In economic terms,New World colonization and plunder had the greatest positive effect on the:

How does the Reconquista and Spanish conquests in Central and South America reflect the crusading ethos of the late Middle Ages?

Relatively few of the slaves who passed through the major Ottoman slave markets were Europeans.Most were African.

After the end of the Hundred Years' War,the French king Charles VIII attempted to expand his territory even further by invading _________ in 1494.

Hernán Cortés was aided in his conquest of the Aztec Empire by all of the following EXCEPT:

Renaissance music had its roots in medieval musical forms.

Machiavelli admired Cesare Borgia for his:

In the fifteenth century,the majority of the great painters were from:

Although Venetian artists copied techniques used in Florence,Venetian paintings differed from those produced in Florence because they: