Question 1

Among the New World crops brought back to Europe, which became a staple crop in northern Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)   Maize
B)   Potatoes
C)   Rice
D)   Wheat
E)   Beans B

Question 2

What was the accord which settled the disputes of the Thirty Years' War called?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Treaty of the Pyrenees
B)   The Edict of Nantes
C)   The Peace of Augsburg
D)   The Peace of Westphalia
E)   The Union of Brest Litovsk D

Question 3

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Puritans

Accepted Answer

Calvinists who wanted to eliminate bishops and favored more sermons, policing of people's behavior, and a strong Protestant foreign policy

Question 4

What caused the "Spanish Fury" in 1575, when Spanish troops sacked the city of Antwerp?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Duke of Alba laid siege to the city during the Dutch resistance.
B)   Calvinists rose up in rebellion.
C)   Philip II declared bankruptcy and couldn't pay his troops.
D)   Accusations of witchcraft against Philip II.
E)   Swedish troops garrisoned in Antwerp were caught under siege.

Question 5

The major objection that the English nobility had to James I becoming king of England was ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   he was Presbyterian
B)   he was related to the French royal family
C)   he was Catholic
D)   he was an absolutist
E)   he wanted to eliminate parliament

Question 6

After the Spanish Armada was launched in 1588, Spain managed to defeat Dutch protestants by force.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

New Jewish settlements in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were found in all of the following areas except ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Bohemia
B)   Spain
C)   the Dutch Republic
D)   England
E)   France

Question 8

The most productive silver mine in the Americas was in modern day ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Mexico
B)   Brazil
C)   Bolivia
D)   Columbia
E)   Venezuela

Question 9

How were the French Wars of Religion part of a larger framework of European wars and politics?

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

What was the objection of the Puritans in England?

Accepted Answer

A)   They wanted to impose the Book of Common Prayer for religious unification.
B)   They wanted Catholics expelled from England.
C)   They wanted a true religious reformation beyond Anglicanism.
D)   They wanted total separation of Church and State.
E)   They did not agree with the translations of the King James Bible.

Question 11

The period when Cromwell imposed the rule of English Parliament on Scotland is known as the ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Black Watch
B)   Restoration
C)   Anglican hegemony
D)   Commonwealth
E)   Time of Troubles

Question 12

What was the land Robert Cavalier claimed for France called?

Accepted Answer

A)   Quebec
B)   Cavalieria
C)   Louisiana
D)   Barbados
E)   Mississippi

Question 13

As a result of the Peace of Alès, ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   King Louis XIII married a Protestant princess from the Dutch Republic
B)   Cardinal Richelieu set aside territory in Alsace Lorraine as a Protestant refuge
C)   Huguenot fortresses were dismantled
D)   religious toleration ended
E)   England and France ended their disputes over Canada

Question 14

What right(s) of Poland-Lithuania did the nobility of Habsburg lands seek to emulate?

Accepted Answer

A)   The right of the nobility to elect their king
B)   The right to depose the king if he violated his coronation oath
C)   The right to veto a measure in the Diet
D)   The right of the nobility to rule their serfs as they saw fit without interference
E)   All of these.

Question 15

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Amsterdam

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-privateer

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Compare and contrast the Wars of Religion in the eastern section of Europe with those of western Europe.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Which of the following was not a factor in the rise of Dutch economic success?

Accepted Answer

A)   A trade arrangement with Poland for grain
B)   An alliance with England for exploration in the Indies
C)   Fishing off the North Sea
D)   The Calvinist work ethic known as the calling
E)   A diversified economy split between agriculture and industry

Question 19

The Dutch West India Company valued the contacts of the _________, who helped to develop trade with Spain.

Accepted Answer

A)   Sephardim
B)   Ashkenazim
C)   Hassidim
D)   Conversos
E)   None of these.

Question 20

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Spanish Armada

Accepted Answer

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-Spanish...

Exam 15: A Century of Crisis