Renaissance

Luther protested the practice of selling indulgences. What was that practice?

• Clergy members bought indulgences to reach higher offices.
• The clergy sold pardons that released people from performing penalties for their sins.
• Charles V told his people that buying indulgences was a way to earn a way to heaven.
• Indulgences permitted priests to marry and have children.

Who declared himself the head of the English Church?

• Henry VIII
• John Knox
• Martin Luther
• Emperor Charles V

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The best synonym for secular is

• New
• Worldly
• Humane
• Religious

To become known as an important patron, one most needed to be

• Wealthy
• Creative
• Religious
• Intellectual

A person who produces work "in the vernacular" is one who

• relies on realism.
• uses only natural light.
• uses a verse form of writing
• writes in a local, rather than a classical, language.

The intellectual and cultural movement known as humanism arose from the study of

• medieval scholarship.
• original Christian writings.
• classical Greek and Roman culture.
• the contributions of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Renaissance painters in Flanders, as in Italy, tended to produce work that was

• Realistic
• Idealistic
• Distorted
• Formal and tightly secure

In Greek, the word utopia means

• Highest
• No place
• Everywhere
• An ideal place

The first use of movable type was in

• Greece
• Germany
• Italy
• China

The printing press was invented by

• Jan van Eyck.
• Johann Gutenberg.
• Peter Bruegel the Elder.
• Hans Holbein the Younger.