ASU ARS102 Renaissance To Modernism Exam 2 Practice Guide Complete 113 Questions

ASU ARS102 RENAISSANCE

TO MODERNISM EXAM 2

PRACTICE GUIDE

COMPLETE 113 QUESTIONS

Question 1: Which con�ict most directly shaped the atmosphere of religious and political tension in seventeenth-century Europe?

Choices:

1) Hundred Years' War 2) Thirty Years' War 3) War of the Roses 4) Crimean War

Correct Answer: Thirty Years' War

Explanation: The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) devastated large parts of Europe and intensi�ed Catholic-Protestant and dynastic con�icts that form an important backdrop to Baroque art.Page 1

Question 2: What major political principle was reinforced by the Peace of

Westphalia in 1648?

Choices:

1) Papal supremacy over monarchs 2) National sovereignty 3) Universal monarchy under Spain 4) Abolition of hereditary rule

Correct Answer: National sovereignty

Explanation: The Peace of Westphalia helped establish the principle that states exercised sovereignty over their own territories and populations.Question 3: In seventeenth-century political history, absolutism refers to which idea?

Choices:

1) Power is divided equally among social estates 2) A monarch claims highly centralized sovereign authority 3) Cities govern themselves without rulers 4) Religious institutions elect the king

Correct Answer: A monarch claims highly centralized sovereign authority

Explanation: Absolutism describes the concentration of political authority in a ruler who claimed broad or absolute governing power.Page 2

Question 4: Which English thinker argued that government derives legitimate

authority from the consent of the governed?

Choices:

1) Thomas Hobbes 2) John Locke 3) Isaac Newton 4) Francis Bacon

Correct Answer: John Locke

Explanation: John Locke argued that political authority rests on the consent of the governed and that government exists to protect natural rights.

Question 5: Which political philosopher defended strong sovereign authority as

necessary to prevent social chaos?

Choices:

1) John Locke 2) Thomas Hobbes 3) René Descartes 4) Galileo Galilei

Correct Answer: Thomas Hobbes

Explanation: Thomas Hobbes argued that peace and order require a powerful sovereign capable of restraining destructive con�ict.Page 3