HIST 502 Module 4 Quiz: Early Modern Europe and American Historiography | Questions and Answers | 2026 Update | 100% Correct.
Due Jul 20 at 11:59pm
Points 75
Questions 16
Time Limit 60 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 4: Week 4.
Contains 16 multiple-choice, true/false, and essay questions.
Is limited to 1 hour.
Allows 1 attempt.
Is worth 75 points.
You may refer to your notes and textbooks at any time during the assessment.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module 4: Week 4.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 25 minutes 72 out of 75
Correct answers are hidden.
Score for this quiz: 72 out of 75
Submitted Jul 20 at 2:15pm
This attempt took 25 minutes.
Question 1
pts
Which of the following is true about Providential History in North America?
It viewed history as a holy chronicle, revealing God's Providence toward His Chosen People and their efforts to build a
New Canaan in the wildnerness.
It believed that God's hand leads mankind forward with disaster His rebukes and successes His merciful rewards.
It argued that the American Revolution was a triumph of reformed Christianity over paganism and Catholicism.
It insisted that the United States as a whole replaced New England as the model of Christian virtue for the corrupt Old
World to see and emulate.
All of the above
, Question 2
pts
NOT true about Renaissance historiography:
It was written largely by Italians from the republic city-states of the Italian peninsula.
It was humanistic in nature—i.e. there was a focus on secular problems and politics.
Many writers did not like the Holy Roman Empire, and thus tended to view Rome not as an eternal empire, but one ended and
succeeded by various kingdoms.
It introduced the humanist innovation of text criticism.
It embraced universal history.
Question 3
pts
NOT one of the humanist innovations of history:
They restructured the Western past through a rejection of Roman universality and the promotion of the concept of the
Dark Ages.
There was a move away from using to the past to teach lessons, and a focus instead on reconstructing the past via
non-literary remainders of the past.
Textual criticism
They established continuity between the Roman and medieval empires.
Question 4
pts
In his 1754 Essay on the Manners, Customs, and the Spirit of Nations, this French philosophe formulated a cultural interpretation of
history, connecting the world’s various groups to the idea of universal human progress. For him, then, there was progress
among all groups, it was just uneven. Thus, he concluded, Westerners differed from the Chinese, Africans, or Indians not
intrinsically but solely because of the greater progress of their rationality; the lag was caused by irrational forces still gripping the
other societies, above all by oppressive religions, laws, and customs.
Flavio Biondo
Voltaire
Condorcet
Edmund Burke
Rene Descartes
Question 5
Due Jul 20 at 11:59pm
Points 75
Questions 16
Time Limit 60 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 4: Week 4.
Contains 16 multiple-choice, true/false, and essay questions.
Is limited to 1 hour.
Allows 1 attempt.
Is worth 75 points.
You may refer to your notes and textbooks at any time during the assessment.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module 4: Week 4.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 25 minutes 72 out of 75
Correct answers are hidden.
Score for this quiz: 72 out of 75
Submitted Jul 20 at 2:15pm
This attempt took 25 minutes.
Question 1
pts
Which of the following is true about Providential History in North America?
It viewed history as a holy chronicle, revealing God's Providence toward His Chosen People and their efforts to build a
New Canaan in the wildnerness.
It believed that God's hand leads mankind forward with disaster His rebukes and successes His merciful rewards.
It argued that the American Revolution was a triumph of reformed Christianity over paganism and Catholicism.
It insisted that the United States as a whole replaced New England as the model of Christian virtue for the corrupt Old
World to see and emulate.
All of the above
, Question 2
pts
NOT true about Renaissance historiography:
It was written largely by Italians from the republic city-states of the Italian peninsula.
It was humanistic in nature—i.e. there was a focus on secular problems and politics.
Many writers did not like the Holy Roman Empire, and thus tended to view Rome not as an eternal empire, but one ended and
succeeded by various kingdoms.
It introduced the humanist innovation of text criticism.
It embraced universal history.
Question 3
pts
NOT one of the humanist innovations of history:
They restructured the Western past through a rejection of Roman universality and the promotion of the concept of the
Dark Ages.
There was a move away from using to the past to teach lessons, and a focus instead on reconstructing the past via
non-literary remainders of the past.
Textual criticism
They established continuity between the Roman and medieval empires.
Question 4
pts
In his 1754 Essay on the Manners, Customs, and the Spirit of Nations, this French philosophe formulated a cultural interpretation of
history, connecting the world’s various groups to the idea of universal human progress. For him, then, there was progress
among all groups, it was just uneven. Thus, he concluded, Westerners differed from the Chinese, Africans, or Indians not
intrinsically but solely because of the greater progress of their rationality; the lag was caused by irrational forces still gripping the
other societies, above all by oppressive religions, laws, and customs.
Flavio Biondo
Voltaire
Condorcet
Edmund Burke
Rene Descartes
Question 5
