World History - The Renaissance & Protestant Reformation

Renaissance art reflected the humanist interest in ...

• individual achievement.

• government by kings.

• socialism.

• the theater.

In their effort to achieve realism, Renaissance painters and sculptors gave great attention to ...

• public opinion.

• medieval art.

• landscape.

• anatomy.

Renaissance architects favored ...

• the Gothic style.

• Chinese styles.

• the Greek and Roman style.

• medieval architecture.

How rulers could gain and maintain power was the focus of The Prince, a book by ...

• Francesco Petrarch.

• Filippo Brunelleschi.

• Niccolo Machiavelli.

• Michelangelo.

What factor, besides the plague, delayed the Renaissance in northern Europe?

• lack of patrons

• lack of economic growth

• lack of gifted artists an scholars

• lack of interest in learning

How did the printing press affect Europe?

• The price of books rose to pay for the new technology.

• More people learned to read and write.

• Books were available to only a limited few.

• Trade declined with the increase in books.

To pay for Church projects, the clergy ...

• raised fees and solid indulgences.

• waged wars.

• traded with other nations.

• taxed Roman citizens.

The Roman Catholic Church reacted to Luther's ideas by ...

• spreading them to non-Christians.

• sentencing him to death.

• excommunicating him.

• adapting Church doctrine.

Luther believed that souls could be saved only through ...

• the Church.

• faith.

• buying indulgences.

• participating in a crusade.

The new scientific method was based on ...

• religion.

• ancient teachings.

• observation and experimentation

• reasoning