The printing press helped the Reformation succeed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
it allowed the papacy to rapidly suppress Lutheranism.
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it allowed for the rapid dissemination of radical ideas.
it allowed Martin Luther to publish and disseminate his works.
it decreased the cost of reading materials and made them more affordable to the middle and lower classes.
it allowed Martin Luther to print his works in the vernacular.
The Council of Trent was important because:
it reaffirmed the traditional doctrines of the Catholic Church.
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it provided for a new system to elect the pope.
it called for acceptance of Lutheran principles.
it eliminated the use of the Index of Prohibited Books.
it adopted a general attitude of ecumenicism.
The Reformation in Germany resulted in:
political fragmentation.
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the abolition of Catholicism.
a unified German state.
Italian control of Austria.
secular freedom for the peasantry.
The English Reformation was peculiar because the government broke with Rome:
when there was no theological dispute between king and pope.
CORRECT!
after the pope took the side of the nobility against the king.
after Catholic Spain attempted to invade England.
after it took the side of France in a political dispute.
after Protestantism had already come to dominate English religious life.
England’s break with the Roman church became official with the passage of the:
Act of Supremacy.
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Six Articles.
The Ninety-Five Thesis.
Act of Succession.
Act of Toleration.
Martin Luther intended his Ninety-Five Theses:
to initiate a debate on the buying and selling of indulgences.
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to lead to a break with the Roman Catholic Church.
to undermine the authority of the papacy.
to justify the buying and selling of indulgences.
to denounce the Book of Revelations from the New Testament.
The Reformation influenced the development of the modern world primarily by:
providing some justification for challenging the absolute authority of kings.
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reducing the power of the state over the lives of ordinary people.
discouraging the growth of capitalism, which was criticized as being too worldly and materialistic.
believing in complete religious freedom for everyone.
forcing the Catholic Church to reform itself.
The “Weber Thesis” attempted to explain the connections between the rise of Calvinism and the rise of:
capitalism.
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absolute monarchies.
Anglicanism.
Catholicism.
the nation-state.
In Geneva, the Calvinists:
imposed strict penalties for blasphemy and immoral behavior.
CORRECT!!
were crushed by the Catholic troops of the Holy Roman Emperor.
reformed the city with little opposition from an enthusiastic populace.
withdrew the Ecclesiastical Ordinances in 1541.
saw their reforms jeopardized by the execution of Savonarola.
The Elizabethan Settlement:
established the Church of England.
CORRECT!!
returned England to the Roman Catholic Church.
offered religious toleration and protection to French Huguenots living in England.
made militant Calvinism the official religion of England.
reintroduced Catholicism but did not require loyalty to the pope.
Which of the following supported Martin Luther:
Prince Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony.
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Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
the papal ambassador (legate) in Germany.
Pope Leo X.
the head of his Augustinian order.
Pope Paul III did all of the following EXCEPT:
reconcile Catholicism with Protestantism at the Imperial Diet of Regensburg.
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call the Council of Trent.
reorganize the Roman Inquisition.
begin the Counter-Reformation.
he did everyone of these things listed above.
This religious order became the tool of the papacy in their crusade against the spread of Protestantism in Europe in the 16c:
the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
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the Tridentines.
the Ursulines.
the Grey Franciscans.
the Brethren of the Common Life.
[Quiz originally from here]