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Midterm Exam
9-10 October 2003
due by 5:00 pm Friday
Directions
For each of the essay questions you choose from below, you should provide
typed, double-spaced answers in 12 pt. font. And, as with your other written
work in the course, you should provide proper references (i.e., footnotes)
for any information you are using from the course texts. Answers will
be evaluated on their completion, presentation, and skill in analysis.
While you are permitted to discuss ideas with your classmates, you must
be sure that the work you turn in is your own…discuss the big ideas,
confirm facts, act as sounding-boards for each other, but separate yourselves
when you actually sit down to write your answers.
Question 1: you must answer question 1
(worth 50% of exam grade…your answer should be approx. 5-6 pages
in length, and you should make reference to at least six "countries"
we have discussed in the course)
Was the Reformation in Europe primarily a religious issue or a political
one?
Question 2: answer two of the following questions
(worth 50% of exam grade - 25% for each answer…each answer should
be approx. 3 pages in length, and should make reference to at least three
"countries" we have discussed in the course)
A. Did the Protestant Reformation do more to help or hurt women's status
in society? You must make specific reference to both Merry Wiesner's work
and The Reformation in National Context.
B. What was the role of universities in the spread of the Reformation?
C. Discuss the types of sources available to historians of the Reformation.
Which are most useful? What gaps are there in our knowledge as a result
of the sources?
D. Was the printing press a necessary component for the Protestant Reformation
to occur?
Final Exam
21-22 October 2003
due by 5:00 pm Wednesday
Directions
For each of the essay questions you choose from below, you should provide
typed, double-spaced answers in 12 pt. font. And, as with your other written
work in the course, you should provide proper references (i.e., footnotes)
for any information you are using from the course texts. Answers will
be evaluated on their completion, presentation, and skill in analysis.
While you are permitted to discuss ideas with your classmates, you must
be sure that the work you turn in is your own…discuss the big ideas,
confirm facts, act as sounding-boards for each other, but separate yourselves
when you actually sit down to write your answers.
Question 1: you must answer question 1
(worth 50% of exam grade…your answer should be approx. 5 pages in
length, and you should make reference to at least five "countries"
we have discussed in the course)
"Scientific research, like economic growth, became centered in the
northern, Protestant countries, where it was less constrained by church
control." Which of these factors - economy, geography or interaction
with religion - do you think contributed most to the growth of the Scientific
Revolution? Or do you disagree with the statement presented altogether?
Question 2: answer two of the following questions
(worth 50% of exam grade - 25% for each answer…each answer should
be approx. 3 pages in length, and answers to A , B or C should make reference
to at least three "countries" we have discussed in the course)
A. How important was patronage during the Scientific Revolution? You
must make specific reference to both Merry Wiesner's work and The Scientific
Revolution in National Context.
B. In what ways did the "mental universe" of people in Early
Modern Europe change as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
C. How were ideas transmitted from country to country during the Scientific
Revolution?
D. In the country you focused on for class discussion only, what was the
relationship between the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution? Was
scientific discovery and experimentation propelled or hindered, or was
there little to no correlation between the movements?
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