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Chapter 17 Self-Assessment
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The following sequence of events is correct:
1) First formulation of the heliocentric system; 2) Newton's unification of physics and astronomy; 3) Discovery of the elliptical paths of planets; 4) First steam engine.
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1) Discovery of the elliptical paths of planets; 2) First formulation of the heliocentric system; 3) Newton's unification of physics and astronomy; 4) First steam engine.
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1) Newton's unification of physics and astronomy; 2) First formulation of the heliocentric system; 3) Discovery of the elliptical paths of planets; 4) First steam engine.
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1) First formulation of the heliocentric system; 2) Discovery of the elliptical paths of planets; 3) Newton's unification of physics and astronomy; 4) First steam engine.
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The following sequence of events is correct:
1) Thirty Years' War; 2) Beginning of Luther's Reformation; 3) "Glorious Revolution" in England; 4) French War of Religion.
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1) Beginning of Luther's Reformation; 2) French War of Religion; 3) Thirty Years' War; 4) "Glorious Revolution" in England.
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1) Beginning of Luther's Reformation; 2) Thirty Years' War; 3) French War of Religion; 4) "Glorious Revolution" in England.
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1) "Glorious Revolution" in England; 2) French War of Religion; 3) Thirty Years' War; 4) Beginning of Luther's Reformation.
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All of the following are true of Maria Cunitz, one of the most remarkable scientific thinkers of the seventeenth century, EXCEPT:
She spoke six languages.
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She was a Protestant whose family was given refuge in a Catholic monastery.
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She was a nun who lived and studied among the Cistercian monks.
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Two of her major influences were her father, a physician, and Johannes Kepler.
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All of the following are true of the development of "New Science" and the Enlightenment EXCEPT:
They involved England, France, the Netherlands, and parts of Germany.
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During the period 1500-1750, the impact was limited to a small percentage of the population of each involved society.
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The acceptance of the ideas was complicated by the impact of the religious Reformation.
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From 1450 until after 1750, the ideas of the Enlightenment and New Science were the major force shaping policies of the rulers of Western Europe.
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In 1750, the most highly populated countries in Europe were:
England and France.
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Poland and Russia.
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Spain and Italy.
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France and Russia.
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By 1750, the armies in larger European countries were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
They had begun wearing uniforms.
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Most forward troops were equipped with bayonet-equipped flintlock muskets.
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The pikemen were still the most effective protection for musketeers.
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The size of the armies was growing rapidly in states where they could be supported.
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All of the problems below began disturbing Roman Catholic laypeople and some clergy from the later 15th century onward, EXCEPT:
The Church's high taxation of peasants.
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The entanglement of upper clergy and the papacy with the centralizing rulers.
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The ambitious and opulent artistic programs undertaken by popes and cardinals.
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The use of the sale of indulgences to raise money.
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All of the following statements are true of Martin Luther EXCEPT:
He was an Augustinian monk, an ordained priest, and a professor of the New Testament in northeastern Germany.
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He had a strong sense of sin, confessing daily and performing extensive penance.
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He wrote a letter to his archbishop itemizing practices he considered contrary to scripture.
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His written communications to Church officials were usually in vernacular German.
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The following statement is true of John Calvin:
He believed that all money lending should be banned, as it was contrary to the Bible.
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He believed that all humans were predestined for heaven or hell before their birth.
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He believed that a person's behavior was between himself and God alone, and that civic authorities should not intervene unless other people were being harmed or led into sin.
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Although he was Swiss by birth, his primary goal was to proselytize in France and Germany.
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All of the following are true of Calvinism in France EXCEPT:
There were about 1200 congregations by the mid sixteenth century.
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Most Calvinist congregations were located in the western French cities.
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Peasants, overtaxed and oppressed, made up the largest segment of French Protestants.
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Calvinism was particularly attractive to literate merchants and craftsmen.
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The English Civil War (1642-1651) resulted in:
The separation of church and state in England.
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A short-lived theocracy.
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The restoration of the Plantagenet dynasty.
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Permanent fiscal power vested in Parliament.
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All of the following were the result of the Peace of Westphalia EXCEPT:
The Protestants gained considerable territory in northern Germany.
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The southern side of the Baltic Sea was ceded to Sweden.
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Territory in Alsace was ceded to France.
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It failed to end the war between France and Spain.
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The ruler with the longest reign in France was:
Henry IV.
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Louis XIII.
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Louis XIV.
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Charles IX.
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"Intendants" were:
Judges sent by the French crown to assure that provincial courts were operating in the best interest of the peasants.
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Representatives of the French crown who kept an eye on provincial office holders.
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Members of the French nobility who attended the King and his Queen at Court.
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Judiciary members who served as provincial judges.
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All of the following is true of Peter the Great of Russia EXCEPT:
He was interested in importing skills from Western Europe.
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He decreed that soldiers should shave their traditional beards and wear European uniforms.
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He was determined to building Russia's fleet in the Baltic Sea.
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He often rewarded western technical experts by giving them estates and serfs in the Balkans.
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England differed from other states of Europe (such as Prussia, France, Spain, and Austria, for instance) in all of the following EXCEPT:
After 1688, the English Parliament controlled state finances.
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The interests of the nobility and the urban merchants converged.
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The ruling classes of the cities and the landed aristocracy were not generally perceived as being in conflict.
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Parliament had no interest in creating or maintaining a centralized bank, believing that it would exert too powerful an influence on laissez faire economics.
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All of the following is true of the period called "The Renaissance," EXCEPT:
There was wide dissemination of translations of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman intellectuals whose work had not been previously known in Western Europe.
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Byzantine, or Eastern Orthodox, Christianity became more influential in Western Europe, weakening the Roman papacy and leaving it vulnerable to Protestant incursions.
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The European intellectuals and artists of the period saw themselves as having broken away from the scholasticism of the Middle Ages.
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Renaissance artists were strongly influenced by Greek and Hellenistic-Roman culture.
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All of the following are true of Galileo Galilei, EXCEPT:
He was able to bring geometry, algebra, and Archimedean physics together.
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Using mathematics, he was able to prove that Archimedes was wrong in his theory of falling bodies.
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A first-rate astronomer, he was one of the first to use a telescope.
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He was condemned to house arrest and (at least publicly) repudiated heliocentrism.
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The "Newtonian synthesis" was:
A fusion of the fields of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and theology.
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A reconciliation of Biblical references and scientific observation.
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An amalgamation of Descartes's system of coordinates and Leibniz's calculus.
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A unification of the fields of physics and astronomy.
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All of the following is true of the technology used in developing scientific instruments EXCEPT:
It produced improvements in such instruments as telescopes, microscopes, thermometers and barometers, all of which had practical applications.
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It established a hierarchy of production, with engineers at the top and theoretical scientists a bit below.
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It inspired an exchange of knowledge between engineers and scientists.
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It inspired craftsmanship and experimentation that ultimately led to such innovations as the steam engine.
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All of the following persons and/or institutions determinedly worked to popularize science EXCEPT:
The Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences.
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Protestant churches and Sunday schools.
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Textbook authors and itinerant lecturers.
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Coffeehouses and salons.
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