Unit 5 Vocab Quiz

What was the Renaissance?

• a rebirth of Mesopotamian culture
• a rebirth of Greek and Egyptian culture
• a rebirth of Roman and Harrapan culture
• a rebirth of Greek and Roman culture

Humanists prized individual achievement more that a person's class or family.

• True
• False

Which of the following best describes what humanism is?

• Celebrating the individual
• The do's and don't of life
• The end justifies the means
• God before all else

Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters:

• satire

• securities

• tragedy

• secular

A German printer who worked on a project that would create a new way of printing books. He created the printing press and movable type.

• Jan van Eyck

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Pleiade

• Johannes Guttenberg

Who wrote the Prince?

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Dante

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

Forgiveness from sin given by the Catholic Church was a(n)

• fundamental

• indulgence

• predestination

• transubstantiation

A splitting of the Catholic Church which started in 1517. The split occurred due to Martin Luther’s protest against what he believed were major problems within the Catholic Church. He wanted to reform the Catholic Church, not create a new faith but the problems were too great and many people gladly followed him.

• reform

• Protestant

• Reformation

• Sin

The official act of expelling or excluding someone from the Christian church and, during the time of the Reformation, keeping them from entering Heaven as well.

• Excommunication

• Sin

• Indulgences

• Salvation

Most famous literary figure of the Renaissance; from England.

• Da Vinci

• Locke

• Jefferson

• Shakespeare