All SAT II World History Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #53 : Europe
All of these individuals were involved with exploration for Portugal EXCEPT __________.
Bartholomew Dias
Henry the Navigator
Vasco de Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
All of these individuals were involved with Portugese exploration except for Christopher Columbus, who was actually born in Italy but sailed to the New World under the patronage of the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.
Example Question #1 : Historical Figures In The Age Of Exploration
Which of these explorers was the first European to land in Australia?
Christopher Columbus
Sir Walter Raleigh
Vasco da Gama
Sir Francis Drake
Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook is most famous for a series of explorations of the Southern Pacific Ocean. He was the first European to lead an expedition to mainland Australia; the first European to circumnavigate New Zealand; and the first European to land in Hawaii. He achieved this in the eighteenth century.
Example Question #2 : Historical Figures In The Age Of Exploration
Which of these historical figures led the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the world?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
Marco Polo
Captain James Cook
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the globe from 1519 to 1522. Rather unfortunately for Magellan, he died near the end of the journey, so he is not actually the "first man to circumnavigate the world". However, he is remembered as such as he was the leader of the expedition.
Example Question #2 : Historical Figures In The Age Of Exploration
For which of the following achievements is the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama remembered?
He opened Africa up to European colonization.
He was the first European to sail to the Americas.
He was the first European to reach Japan by sea.
He was the first European to sail to the continent of Australia.
He was the first European to reach India by sea.
He was the first European to reach India by sea.
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. He is most famous for being the first European to sail to India. He is thus credited with opening up trade between Europe and the Far East via the ocean, a trend that would propel the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, French, and English to global prominence.
Example Question #54 : Europe
Henry Hudson was employed by the Dutch East India Company to find __________.
an appropriate location for a Dutch settlement in North America
a passage through Central America to Asia
a Northern Passage through the Americas to Asia
trading opportunities on the Atlantic Coast of North America
evidence of a Viking settlement in the New World
a Northern Passage through the Americas to Asia
Henry Hudson was employed by the Dutch East India Company to find the fabled Northwest Passage to Asia through the continent of North America. He sailed up the Hudson River (named after him) and found a passage into the heart of modern Canada, but could not proceed further because his crew mutinied. The Northwest Passage, was finally successfully completed in 1906 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
Example Question #1 : Rise Of Protestantism
Which of these people was not a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Henry VIII
All of these people were leading figures in the Protestant Reformation.
Ulrich Zwingli
John Calvin
All of these people were leading figures in the Protestant Reformation.
All of these people were responsible for spreading or encouraging the break from the Catholic Church that occurred during the Protestant Reformation. Luther sparked the Reformation with his 95 Theses; Calvin and Zwingli adapted and spread the ideas in France and Switzerland; and Henry VIII founded the Church of England and placed himself as head of Christianity in England.
Example Question #2 : Rise Of Protestantism
The Protestant Reformation began when __________.
Ulrich Zwingli published his Two Treatises
John Knox was executed for heresy
Martin Luther published his 95 Theses
John Calvin was executed for heresy
Thomas Hobbes published The Leviathan
Martin Luther published his 95 Theses
The Protestant Reformation began in 1517 when Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses on the abuses and malpractice of the Catholic Church and nailed them to the door of a church in Wittenberg.
Example Question #3 : Rise Of Protestantism
How did the religion of the Anabaptists differ from the other religions of the Protestant Reformation?
They believed no person could be saved without having been baptized as a baby.
They rejected infant baptism.
None of the other answer choices is correct; the name Anabaptist is a misnomer.
They rejected baptism all together as a Catholic church construct.
They practiced forced baptism of nonbelievers.
They rejected infant baptism.
The Anabaptists were a sect of Christianity that emerged during the Protestant Reformation. They rejected the notion of infant baptism and practiced adult baptism. For this crime, they received the ire of Catholics and other Protestants alike, and their stronghold of Munster was besieged and its inhabitants massacred.
Example Question #1 : Rise Of Protestantism
The Ausburg Confession is the primary declaration of faith of this Christian denomination.
Anglicanism
Catholicism
Anabaptism
Lutheranism
Calvinism
Lutheranism
The Augsburg Confession was issued by a number of German rulers at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. It formally outlines the Lutheran faith and is the primary confession of faith in the Lutheran religion.
Example Question #91 : 1500 C.E. To 1900 C.E.
Which of the following best describes the religious beliefs of the Northern Renaissance man Erasmus?
He was born in Lutheran Germany and founded the Anabaptist religious movement.
He was a staunch Catholic who firmly defended the practices of the Catholic Church throughout his life.
He was a staunch Catholic who wanted to reform the abuses of the Church from within the faith.
He was a staunch Catholic who was convinced by the theology of Martin Luther and converted to Lutheranism on his death bed.
He began life as a Catholic, but quickly grew to loathe the Church and tried to establish his own denomination of Protestantism in Holland.
He was a staunch Catholic who wanted to reform the abuses of the Church from within the faith.
Erasmus is one of the most celebrated men of the Northern Renaissance. He was born in the Netherlands and lived his whole life as a staunch Catholic. He was however greatly disturbed by the abuses of the clergy within the Catholic Church. He worked tirelessly to try and reform the Church from within. He had many supporters within the humanist and renaissance movement, but was widely condemned by the more polemical supporters from both the Catholic and Protestant camps.