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Renaissance and Reformation Test Study Guide- total of 50 points
Format of the Test:
 Multiple Choice
 Matching
 Short answer definitions/listing
Please utilize any materials that we have covered during the unit to study including notes, past quizzes, Kahoots!,
and video links embedded in the PowerPoints I have posted online. Corresponding textbook pages are posted on
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posted online does not work, let me know as soon as possible, not the day of your test. You also have hard copies
of the notes needed to study.
Italy: The birthplace of the Renaissance
 What conditions allowed for the start of the Renaissance in Italy?
 What types of books are The Prince and The Courtier? Guidebooks
 Which powerful family ruled Florence during the Renaissance? How did they gain their wealth and power?
What class were they from?
 What was the time span of the Renaissance?
 Definitions of:
Renaissance
Patron
Humanism
Secularism
Classicism
Individualism
City-state
Renaissance Art
 The main characteristics of Renaissance Art
 Main characteristics of Art from the Middle Ages
 Who was known as the “Renaissance Man”? Why?
Renaissance Writing
 Be familiar with the main points that Machiavelli makes in The Prince. They are listed in your notes
 Know which writers wrote which books, and the main ideas talked about them in each
 Main themes of Renaissance Writing/Thinking
 Should be able to point out elements of humanism, classicism, individualism, secularism in different
works of writing from the Renaissance
Reformation/Counter Reformation
 What factors led to the start of the Protestant Reformation? What kinds of corruption was going on in the
Catholic Church?
 What changes did Martin Luther wish to make to the Catholic Church?
 What did John Calvin preach about?
 Who were the Jesuits and what was their goal?
 How did the Catholic Church counter the Protestant Reformation?
 Definitions of:
Indulgence
Excommunication
Heresy
95 theses
Diet/Edict of Worms
Council of Trent
Predestination
Vernacular
Theocracy
Purgatory (how it relates to indulgences)
The Reformation Parliament
Act of Supremacy
Annulment
Jesuits
Transubstantiation
Witchcraft
Peace of Augsburg
Council of Trent
People to Know:
Martin Luther
Johann Tetzel
Charles V
John Wycliffe
Jan Hus
Erasmus
Pope Leo X
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Ignatius of Loyola
Teresa of Avila
Giralamo Savonarola
Charles Borromeo
Jane of Chantal
King Henry VIII
Henry’s Wives (6 total)
Henry’s Children- (Edward, Mary, Elizabeth)