Question 1
How did Spain gain access to Portugal's overseas empire in Africa, Brazil, and India?
A. Spain took over the trading network when the Portuguese faced steep inflation in their homeland.
B. Portuguese merchants began using Spanish ports and paid heavy taxes to Spain.
C. Philip II inherited the throne of Portugal.
D. Philip II attacked Portugal and overcame its military forces.
E. The Portuguese nobility turned over its empire in a show of resistance to their king.
Question 2
What event caused the Protestants and the Catholics of the Netherlands to unite against a common enemy, the Spaniards?
A. the days of the Spanish Fury
B. the exile of William of Orange
C. the signing of the Perpetual Edict
D. the issuing of the Edict of Nantes
E. the massacres of the Duke of Alba
Question 3
What did Catherine de Mdicis tell the king to convince him to execute the Protestant leaders in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
A. Catherine told the king that the Guise family had plotted to kill him and take the throne for themselves.
B. Catherine told the king that a Protestant coup was afoot, and that he must save the crown from an attack on Paris.
C. Catherine told the king that she had been plotting an assassination of Coligny.
D. Catherine told the king that the Huguenots had already massacred thousands of peasants.
E. Catherine told the king that Coligny had been treasonous in his associations with the Huguenots.
Question 4
The Thirty Years' War began as a/an ________.
A. peasant uprising
B. trade war between Bohemia and Saxony
C. outgrowth of German interference in the Netherlands
D. border dispute between Bavaria and Austria
E. revolt of Protestant nobility against an unpopular king