5.6 The Dutch Revolt - Q -

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5. The Time of Discoverers and Reformers

5.6. The Dutch Revolt 

Practise Questions

1. What was the Council of Troubles?

1. a special court that dealt with iconoclasts
2. a special court that imposed new taxes
3. a different name for Inquisition
4. a meeting of Alva and the Dutch troublemakers

2. Read the first verse of the National Anthem
of the Netherlands.
In which sentence do you see the divine right
of the king?

3. Why was money so important for William if he
wanted to fight against Alva?

1. without money William could not get the support of the Dutch cities
2. without money nobody felt that William was important enough to fight for
3. without money Philip II did not take William seriously
4. without money his mercenaries would not fight for him

4a. The Dutch cities rose up with William against Alva immediately

1. true
2. false

4b. The Watergeuzen were Protestants
that had fled the Council of Troubles

1. true
2. false

4c. A fisherman told the Geuzen that Den Briel was not well defended by the Spaniards

1. true
2. false

5a. Why would the artist have produced
such a detailed picture of the siege of Naarden?

5b. Look up the meaning of the word "propaganda"
Is this picture a piece of propaganda?
Explain, and use the meaning of the term in your answer.

6a. Why was it impossible for the Spanish
to maintain the siege of Leiden?

6b. How would farmers have felt when their land was flooded?

7. What was the Union of Utrecht?

1. The agreement of the southern provinces to support each other in the war against Spain
2. The agreement of the northern provinces to support each other in the war against Spain
3. The agreement of all the 17 provinces to support each other in the war against Spain
4. The agreement of the southern provinces to support each other in the war against the northern provinces

8a. What part of the text shows that the northern provinces did not want to become a republic in the early 1580s?

8b. Why do you think the northern provinces were
unsuccessful in their search for a new ruler?

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