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Question 1001 

The taille was imposed in France to ________.
A) raise money
B) replace feudal levies
C) strengthen the church
D) go to war with England

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Question 1002 

Galileo Galilei and Andreas Vesalius are both examples of Renaissance________.
A) scientists
B) humanists
C) philologists
D) courtiers

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Question 1003 

What two fifteenth-century inventions made books more widely available?
A) moveable type and cheap paper
B) ink and cheaper parchment
C) ink and cheap paper
D) moveable type and cheaper parchment

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Question 1004 

Which of these movements emerged in Europe in the fifteenth century?
A) Enlightenment
B) Scientific Revolution
C) Renaissance
D) Romanticism

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Question 1005 

The Great Schism refers to the
 
  a. rebellion of the peasants after the Black Death.
  b. rivalry between church and state.
  c. rivalry between two contesting popes.
  d. All these answers are correct.

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Question 1006 

The last Muslim stronghold in Spain was________.
A) Madrid
B) Aragon
C) Granada
D) Castile

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Question 1007 

In the Hundred Years’ War, which of these lost their status as the key element in warfare?
A) the cavalry
B) siege engines
C) the infantry
D) bowmen

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Question 1008 

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A) Giovanni Boccaccio
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Francesco Petrarch
D) Niccoló Machiavelli

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Question 1009 

The Ciompi were ________.
A) Florentine wool workers
B) French peasants
C) Italian bankers
D) guild masters in Florence

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Question 1010 

The craft and merchant guilds represented the interests of _______.
A) masters
B) workers
C) the towns
D) consumers

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