World History

CHAPTER 24 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Luther?s initial stimulus for formulating the Ninety-Five Theses was a. his excommunication from the Roman Catholic church. b. the sale of indulgences. * c. his time spent in England during the English Reformation. d. the turmoil caused by having two popes during the Great Schism. e. the influence of John Calvin. (p. 631) 2. The author of the Ninety-Five Theses was a. John Calvin. b. Erasmus. c. Voltaire. d. Martin Luther. * e. Henry VIII. (p. 631) 3. The Catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century because of the a. need to match the resurgence of the Byzantine empire. b. threat posed by Islam. c. need for Henry VIII to pay off the national debt.

CHAPTER 22 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Ibn Battuta was a. a Morrocan legal scholar who traveled extensively and recorded his observations. * b. the sultan of Delhi. c. the leader of the central Asian kingdom that dominated all trade along the silk roads. d. Marco Polo?s traveling companion. e. the leading Islamic scholar whose work reintroduced Aristotle to Europe. (p. 565) 2. In the five centuries after the year 1000 C.E., the peoples of the eastern hemisphere a. cut off contact with the rest of the world because of the ravages of disease. b. fell under the control of the expanding empires of the western hemisphere. c. traveled and interacted more intensively than ever before. * d. fell dangerously behind the rest of the world in science and technology.