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| 6010554663 | In characterizing the period from 1450 to 1750 in the West, which of the following statements is NOT accurate | A) What was once an agricultural society had become a predominantly manufacturing economy. | 0 | |
| 6010554664 | Which of the following sequences lists the major developments of Western civilization in proper sequence | C) Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, absolute monarchy, Enlightenment | 1 | |
| 6010556835 | Which of the following statements about the Renaissance is NOT accurate | B) The Renaissance was largely an artistic movement that began in Italy. | 2 | |
| 6010556836 | Which of the following was NOT a participant in the 15th-century Italian Renaissance | D) Giotto | 3 | |
| 6010556837 | Which of the following statements concerning Italian humanism is most accurate | A) Humanists focused on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavor. | 4 | |
| 6010568176 | Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Renaissance on politics and commerce | B) Under humanist influence, wars among Italian city-states became less frequent and violent. | 5 | |
| 6010568177 | Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500 | C) French and Spanish monarchs invaded the peninsula, cutting down on political independence. | 6 | |
| 6010569708 | What was one of the primary differences between the Northern and Italian Renaissances | B) Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts. | 7 | |
| 6010569709 | Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for | D) the invention of movable type in the West. | 8 | |
| 6010571481 | What was the European-style family pattern that emerged in the 15th century | D) Nuclear families, late marriage ages | 9 | |
| 6010571482 | What determined the age of marriage for many people in Europe | B) Access to real property | 10 | |
| 6010571483 | By the 16th century, at what age did most Europeans marry | E) 28-29 | 11 | |
| 6010574019 | Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517 | D) Martin Luther | 12 | |
| 6010574020 | Which of the following was NOT a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther | D) Priests should practice celibacy. | 13 | |
| 6010575875 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the reason why Luther picked up widespread support among the German elite | C) German princes who turned Protestant could increase their independence from the emperor, seize church lands, and control the church in their territories. | 14 | |
| 6010575876 | Which of the following reasons suggests why common people supported the Lutheran Reformation | B) Lutheranism sanctioned money-making and other earthly pursuits more wholeheartedly than did traditional Catholicism. | 15 | |
| 6010578393 | What was the church established by Henry VIII in England | D) Anglican | 16 | |
| 6010578394 | The theological foundation of Jean Calvin's Protestantism was | C) predestination. | 17 | |
| 6010581199 | What was the political impact of Calvinism | D) Calvinists sought the participation of all believers in church administration, which encouraged the idea of a wider access to government. | 18 | |
| 6010583350 | Which of the following areas was NOT successfully defended by the Catholic Reformation | A) The Netherlands | 19 | |
| 6010583351 | What new religious order was associated with the Catholic Reformation | B) Jesuits | 20 | |
| 6010585620 | The Edict of Nantes, issued in France in 1598 | A) granted tolerance to Protestants and helped end the French civil wars of religion. | 21 | |
| 6010585621 | Which of the following was NOT a result of the Thirty Years War | B) The treaty that ended the war established Spain as the principal power of western Europe. | 22 | |
| 6010587941 | The religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation led generally to | C) a limited acceptance of the idea of religious pluralism. | 23 | |
| 6010598184 | Which of the following states fell back from European ascendancy following the religious wars | B) Spain | 24 | |
| 6010603868 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes a change in popular mentality as a result of the Protestant Reformation | C) Protestants and Catholics considered the family in more positive terms, not simply as an institution necessary because of human lust. | 25 | |
| 6010603869 | Which of the following was NOT typical of the commercial revolution of the 16th century | D) Significant reduction in prices encouraging consumer spending | 26 | |
| 6010603870 | The average Western peasant or artisan owned about how many times more "things" than his or her counterpart in southeastern Europe | B) Five | 27 | |
| 6010606481 | Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the | C) proletariat. | 28 | |
| 6010609613 | Which of the following was a Western response to the commercial revolution of the 16th century that was proletarian in outlook | C) A wave of popular protests resulting in uprisings caused by social tensions | 29 | |
| 6010609614 | Who used astronomical observation and mathematical calculation to disprove the Hellenistic belief that the Earth was the center of the universe | B) Copernicus | 30 | |
| 6010612615 | William Harvey was responsible for what discovery during the Scientific Revolution | D) The circular movement of blood in animals | 31 | |
| 6010612616 | What was Isaac Newton's work published in 1687 that drew various theories together into a framework of natural laws | B) Principia | 32 | |
| 6010612660 | Which of the following statements most accurately summarizes the view of Deists | A) While there may be a divinity, its role is only to set natural laws in motion. | 33 | |
| 6010615497 | How did the Western view of science compare with that of other civilizations | C) The West was not alone in developing crucial scientific data, but its thinkers were the only ones to see science in broader philosophical terms as central to intellectual life. | 34 | |
| 6010615498 | All of the following were typical of 16th century absolute monarchy EXCEPT | D) the destruction of provincial councils. | 35 | |
| 6010619015 | The monarch most associated with absolute monarchy was | D) Louis XIV of France. | 36 | |
| 6010619016 | Which of the following descriptions most accurately defines mercantilism | B) Mercantilism held that government should promote the internal economy in order to improve tax revenues and to limit imports from other nations. | 37 | |
| 6010621654 | Besides France, where else did absolute monarchy develop during the period 1450 to 1750 | D) Prussia | 38 | |
| 6010621655 | Which of the following states stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy in the 17th century and retained a parliamentary regime | B) Britain | 39 | |
| 6010623939 | What monarch is associated with the establishment of enlightened despotism in Prussia in the middle of the 18th century | D) Frederick the Great | 40 | |
| 6010623940 | The aftermath of the Scientific Revolution spilled over into a new intellectual movement in the 18th century called the | B) Enlightenment. | 41 | |
| 6010626324 | Adam Smith's economic theory advocated | C) that governments avoid regulation in favor of the operation of individual initiative and market forces. | 42 | |
| 6010626325 | Which of the following was NOT a basic principle of the Enlightenment | C) If people were not controlled, general social decline was inevitable. | 43 | |
| 6010628059 | Which of the following changes associated with treatment of children was associated with the Enlightenment | A) Parents became more interested in freer movement and greater interaction for young children. | 44 | |
| 6010628060 | How did agriculture change in the late 17th century | D) New technology and better stock-breeding methods resulted in higher productivity. | 45 | |
| 6010630710 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of manufacturing in the later 18th century | C) The 18th century witnessed a rapid spread of household production of textiles and metal products, mostly by rural workers who alternated manufacturing with some agriculture. | 46 | |
| 6010630711 | In 1733, John Kay of England introduced | B) the flying shuttle to automate weaving. | 47 | |
| 6010635590 | Which of the following statements concerning mid-18th-century Western society is most accurate | A) Agricultural changes, commercialism, and manufacturing had combined to produce a rapidly growing population in the West. | 48 | |
| 6010637926 | By 1750, the strands of commercial, cultural, and political changes in Europe had been combined to create | A) an unstable political environment that would eventually regress backwards. | 49 |
