Italian Renaissance Review Quiz

The rebirth; the period of time which saw renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture.

• Reformation

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Neo-Classical Period

Trade and the Crusades bought Italy into contact with these regions and empires, allowing new knowledge of science and literature to arrive in Italy.

• Africa

• Russia

• Holy Roman Empire

• Middle East

• Byzantium

Italy was not a kingdom or empire, rather it was a collection of...

• regions under direct control of the pope.

• remote villages united by a warlord.

• autonomous city-states.

• nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes.

Lorenzo ____________ and his family used their wealth, as well as their control of Florence politics and trade to support the arts.

• Borgia

• Medici

• Colonna

• Capone

Grammar, history, poetry, and rhetoric make up the ____________.

• humanities

• social studies

• classicalism

• humanism

Francesco Petrarch was one of the first _________________, or people who study the humanities.

• saints

• humanists

• scholars

• poets

This was the mark of an educated person during the Renaissance.

• Successful farming.

• The ability to read and write.

• Poetic talent.

• Knowledge of classical Greek and Latin.

The ends justify the means. Author of "The Prince" in 1513 which argued one must do good when possible, but evil when necessary.

• Leonardo DaVinci

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Lorenzo Medici

• Francesco Petrarch

Italian Renaissance painters tended to paint realistic depictions of __________________ figures against classical Greek or Roman backgrounds.

• local

• royal

• religious

• wealthy

All of the following were Italian Renaissance painters except:

• Leonardo DaVinci

• Francesco Petrarch

• Rafael

• Michaelangelo