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Unit 1 Renaissance
1. What were causes of the Renaissance
A. the plague and war
B. the change in time
C. the inspiration from the past
D. a time for freedom
2. What does Renaissance mean?
A. Renew
B. Recreate
C. Rebirth
D. New Life
3. Prior to the Renaissance the society was very?
A. Secular
B. Religious
C. Bias
D. Humanistic
4. The Renaissance may be described as an age of
A. curiosity and individualism
B. exploration and adventure
C. the “rebirth” of human creativity
D. all of the above
5. The intellectual movement called humanism
A. condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity
B. focused on human life and its accomplishments
C. treated the madonna as a childlike unearthly creature
D. focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell
6. The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called
A. feudalism
B. humanism
C. classicism
D. paganism
7. Which of the following statements is not true of the intellectual movement of the
Renaissance known as humanism
A. The madonna was treated as a beautiful young woman.
B. The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
C. The humanists were captivated by the pagan culture of ancient Greece and
Rome.
D. The humanists focused on human life and its accomplishments.
8. Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance
A. Education was considered a status symbol by aristocrats and the upper middle
class.
B. The Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance than during
the Middle Ages.
C. Every educated person was expected to be trained in music.
D. Musical activity gradually shifted from the church to the court.
9. The Renaissance is an era that took place between
A. the 14th and 16th centuries
B.
the 15th and 17th centuries
C.
the 12th and 14th centuries
D. It is still ongoing
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10. When the Plague died away
A. new industries emerged in Europe
B. Europe's population began to grow
C. people started believing in religion again
D. People continued to live in the country
11. During the Renaissance more and more people started to read because
A. monks taught people how to read and write
B. more young people went to school
C. printing became cheaper
D. They learned English
12. Humanists were people who
A. who studied the human body
B. liked to learn about the world
C. who taught the church's religion
D. started to read Roman and Greek literature again
13. The Medici family were
A. rich bankers in Florence
B. painters in Venice
C. merchants in Milan
D. a middle class family
14. During the Renaissance
A. the monarch gained power
B. a new middle class emerged
C. people started moving to the countryside
D. people became poorer
15. Renaissance artists
A. used perspective in their drawings
B. didn't use as much realism as painters before them
C. used flat angles
D. were very gothic
16. Renaissance painters in Flanders as in Italy tended to produce work that was?
A. Realistic
B. Idealistic
C. Distorted
D. Formal and structured
17. In Greek the word Utopia means?
A. No place
B. Highest
C. Everywhere
D. A homeland
18. The first to use moveable type was
A. Greece
B. Germany
C. Italy
D. China
19. The printing press was invited by
A. Jan van Eyke
B. Johann Gutenberg
C. Peter Brugel
D. Hans Holbein
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20. Which of the following correctly matches the author to something they wrote?
A. Thomas More and Utopia
B. Christine de Pizan and Hamlet
C. William Shakespeare and The Praise of Folly
D. Desiderius Eramus and Gargantua and Pantagruel
21. The best known synonym for secular is
A. New
B. Worldly
C. Humane
D. Religious
22. Who is the best example of a Renaissance Man?
A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Johann Gutenberg
C. Vittora
D. Thomas More
23. To become a well known patron one needed to be
A. Wealthy
B. Creative
C. Religious
D. Intellectual
24. The technique known as perspective is most useful in the creation of
A. Drama
B. Sculpture
C. 2-D art
D. Poetry
25. Who inspired the Renaissance
A. The Gothic Period
B. The plague
C. The Italians
D. Greeks and Romans
26. What was a Renaissance Woman
A. Someone who created art
B. Someone who created a little bit of everything
C. Someone who inspired creativity
D. The same as a Renaissance Man
27. The Northern Renaissance took a political stance in the art and literature and addressed
A. The ancient civilizations
B. Values
C. Man maintaining power
D. Social issues
28. Who inspired the use of vernacular
A. Petrach
B. Dante
C. Machiavelli
D. Colonna
29. The biggest change in the Renaissance was:
A. The explosion of music
B. The change in art
C. The documentation and inclusion of lower and middle class
D. The change in theme or genre
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30. How did the existence of patron’s most effect society?
A. Explosion of Art and Music
B. Made art important but only to rich
C. Changed peoples lives
D. Had little impact
31. How were ideas of the Renaissance shared with other areas?
A. Trade
B. Books
C. Music
D. Plays
32. The northern Renaissance focused on
A. Humanism
B. Perspective
C. Realism
D. Democracy
33. What was the capital of the Northern Renaissance
A. Rome
B. Flanders
C. Venice
D. Naples
34. Queen Elizabeth was the namesake of the Elizabethan Era, Why?
A. She was well versed
B. She was a mean ruler
C. She named it after herself
D. It was a joke
35. A person who produces work in their vernacular is one who
A. Relies on realism
B. Uses natural light
C. Uses verse in his writing
D. Writes in their local language
Matching:
36. Raphael
37. Michelangelo
38. Leoardo da Vinci
39. Francesco Petrach
40. Pierter Bruegel
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Mona Lisa and Last Supper
Painted Madonna and Child
Influential Poet
Painted peasant life
Sistine Chapel
41. Thomas More
42. Vittora Colonna
43. Jan van Eyck
44. Giovanni Boccaccio
45. Niccolo Machiavelli
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Short story writer based on plague
Wrote Utopia
Political advisor and thinker
Famous female writer
Northern oil painter
46. Why was Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance and why did the ideas of the Renaissance
eventually spread outside of Italy?
47. How did the Medieval Ages compare and contrast to that of the Renaissance?
48. How did the printing press change the society and world, as we know it?
49. What is the Legacy of the Renaissance?
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