Renaissance

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Renewed
• Rebuilt
• Remade
• Rebirth

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The printing press 

• Allowed ideas to be spread faster because books were easier to get
• Was created by Leonardo Da Vinci
• Was invented by the Ottoman Turks
• Helped Mansa Musa spread Islam

What is the artistic technique that is used to show depth and distance on a flat surface?

• realism
• perspective
• idealism
• distancism

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Which of the following does not describe Leonardo as a "Renaissance Man?

• painter
• inventor
• dancer
• scientist and inventor

The writer of Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, and Hamlet was

• Brunelleschi
• Machiavelli
• Dante
• Shakespeare

The first moveable type of printing press that allowed mass production of materials was invented by

• Leonardo da Vinci.
• Johann Gutenberg.
• William Shakespeare.
• Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Renaissance art?

• Perspective
• Incorporation of nature
• Flat/2-D
• Realistic/3-D

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Renaissance art was notable for:

• showing religious themes for the first time
• focusing on humans and their emotions
• including many miliatary scenes
• having flat backgrounds with figures up front

After the end of feudalism, what event stimulated trade?

• Hundred Years War
• Crusades
• Black Death
• discovery of new gold mines

Many ideas of the European Renaissance were based on the cultures of ancient

• Greece and Egypt
• Greece and Rome
• Greece and China
• Greece and India