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Chapter 14: Europe at War, 1555-1648

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz

This activity contains 29 questions.

	Religious toleration spread rapidly throughout Europe in the early seventeenth century.    True  False

	Protestantism, in the form of Calvinism, came late to France.    True  False

	The Guise family controlled both the state and the Church under Francis II.    True  False

	Henry Bourbon, king of Navarre, was a staunch Catholic.    True  False

	Female rulers were invariably figureheads of government in the sixteenth century.    True  False

	King Henry III ordered the assassination of the leaders of the Guise family in 1588.    True  False

	Henry Bourbon, king of Navarre and leader of the Huguenots, succeeded Henry III as king of France.    True  False

	Upon becoming king, Henry IV continued to reject Catholicism and made Calvinism the state religion of France.    True  False

	The Edict of Nantes granted limited toleration to Catholics under the reign of Henry IV.    True  False

	Under Philip II, Spain undertook the defense of the Mediterranean from Ottoman advances.    True  False

	At one time, Philip II was king of both England and Spain.    True  False

	The Spanish Armada of 1588 was intended to support the government of Catherine de Médicis in France.    True  False

	Local nobility in the Low Countries, whether Catholic or Protestant, opposed the strict enforcement of the heresy laws imposed by Philip II.    True  False

	The revolt of the Netherlands began when Calvinists attacked and desecrated Catholic churches.    True  False

	The Duke of Alba, a moderate Spanish general, negotiated a peaceful settlement with Protestants in the Netherlands.    True  False

	In the Pacification of Ghent of 1576, the Spanish government conceded local autonomy in taxation, the central role of the States-General in legislation, and the immediate withdrawal of Spanish troops.    True  False

	Poland was the only state in Europe where religious toleration was practiced as well as preached.    True  False

	Russian claimants to the vacant throne after 1601 all claimed to be Dmitri, the lost brother of the last tsar.    True  False

	The first chosen tsar after the Time of Troubles was Michael Romanov.    True  False

	Sweden rebelled in order to secure independence from Denmark in 1523.    True  False

	Sweden's primary territorial interests were in the North Sea.    True  False

	Protestants in Bohemia objected to the Catholic policies of Ferdinand Habsburg and tossed his representatives out of a window.    True  False

	Frederick of the Palatinate accepted the crown of Bohemia from Protestant rebels.    True  False

	The first stage of the Thirty Years' War ended in a complete Protestant victory over the emperor.    True  False

	First the Danes and then the Swedes intervened in the Thirty Years' War on the side of the Protestants.    True  False

	Gustavus Adolphus enjoyed the secret support of Catholic France in the fight against the equally Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.    True  False

	The final stages of the Thirty Years' War involved a long and bitter conflict between Spain and England.    True  False

	The Dutch used their naval superiority to attack French colonies in the New World.    True  False

	The Peace of Westphalia restored the terms of the Peace of Augsburg and extended its terms to Calvinists.    True  False

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