Question 1
Banquets during the Renaissance
A) expressed the simplicity of the life idealized in courtly society.
B) were not held on Holy Days and at such celebrations as weddings.
C) were used to express wealth and power of an aristocratic family.
D) were banned by the papacy.
E) were restricted to the wealthy bourgeoisie.
Question 2
In the post-Civil War era,
A) white Southerners feared revenge from their former slaves.
B) crime rates in the South rose sharply.
C) many southern households were lacking a traditional head, as one in five southern men had died in the war.
D) former Confederates feared northern soldiers who still occupied the South.
E) All of these are correct.
Question 3
The aristocracy of the sixteenth century was
A) to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages.
B) largely surpassed by the upcoming merchant class.
C) still powerful, but with little new blood to keep it vital.
D) extremely uneducated compared to the nobility of the Middle Ages.
E) to disappear by the early seventeenth century.
Question 4
During the Reconstruction,
A) most freedmen were able to purchase at least a small amount of land.
B) the Freedmen's Bureau had no bearing on the negotiation of labor contracts for freedmen.
C) many African American women were anxious to work in the fields as farm labor was steady work.
D) African Americans hated working in gangs as it reminded them of slavery.
E) labor shortages had no effect on the bargaining power of freedmen as laborers.
Question 5
Propertyless workers and the unemployed constituted what percentage of the population living in cities?
A) 10 to 20 percent.
B) 30 to 40 percent.
C) 50 to 70 percent.
D) 70 to 90 percent.
E) greater than 90 percent.