Renaissance Review

1. Which of the following best characterizes Renaissance Humanists?

• They totally rejected Christianity and embraced atheism

• They concentrated on the study of humans from a biological perspective

• They rejected writers from the pre-Christian period

• They emphasized rhetoric based on classical (Roman and Greek) models

• They maintained the principles of medieval Scholasticism

Advocates of northern humanism believed which of the following?

• The fusion of Christian and Classical ideals provides the best definition of virtuous conduct

• The conventions of romantic love enhance the social respect for women

• Education and scholarship should be equally open to men and women

• The new poetic forms, such as the sonnet, could be used to articulate their beliefs

• Political rights should be extended to all men

3. Which of the following most clearly distinguishes the northern Renaissance from the Italian Renaissance?

• Interest in science and technology

• Greater concern with religious piety

• Cultivation of a Latin style

• Use of national languages (vernacular) in literature

• Admiration for Scholastic thought

4. Renaissance art:

• Was rarely religious in context

• Depicted the nude in a spiritualized way

• Was seen as threatening and too radical by the merchant elite

• Glorified the human body

• Was produced within the guild structure

5. “He denied glory and excellence beyond that of anyone else. He showed favor to vernacular poetry and all the fine arts. Under him the city was not free, but it would have been impossible for it to have had a better or more pleasing tyrant.” The passage above most accurately describes:

• Lorenzo di Medici

• John Calvin

• William of Orange

• Frederick William I

• Philip II

6. The superiority of the French monarch over the Church was the object of the:

• Concordat of Bologna

• Habsburg-Valois Wars

• Declaration of Calais

• Hundred Years’ War

• Huguenot Rebellions

7. 15th Century attempts to centralize and consolidate power were most successful in:

• France

• England

• Italy

• Spain

• Germany

8. One of the techniques innovated by Renaissance painters using lighting and shading was known as:

• Linear perspective

• Symmetry

• Chiaroscuro

• Fresco

• Oil painting

9. Which of the following were major causes of the inflation in prices (“the price revolution”) that occurred in Europe in the 16th century?

• Deficit spending and high taxes imposed by national governments

• Declining food production and increasing luxury good production

• Declining imports from Asia and increased spending on colonies in the New World

• Increasing population and in influx of precious metals from the New World

• Declining value of land and the wages paid to laborers

10. The monarch most known for consolidating his or her power through state-controlled religion was

• Henry VII of England

• Charles IX of France

• Isabella of Castille

• Lorenzo di Medici

• The Holy Roman Emperor