World History II Standards of Learning (SOL) Practice Test

The Huguenots were French Protestants who adopted Calvinist ideas in France during the Reformation. They emerged as a Protestant minority in a predominantly Catholic country and became a focal point of religious conflict in 16th- and 17th-century France. The other options describe different things: the Habsburgs were a powerful Catholic royal dynasty, not a religious faction of France; the Counter-Reformation was the Catholic Church’s response to Protestantism, and the Council of Trent was a Catholic council that codified those reforms. So the group that best fits “The Huguenots were” is French Protestants.