Renaissance Review Quiz

What slowed the spread of the Italian Renaissance across Europe?

• poverty

• famine

• disease

• flooding

An increased demand for books during the 1500s meant that

• fewer books were written in the vernacular

• more books were written in the vernacular

• fewer people read classical works

• more people read Chinese works

One reason Renaissance art looks more lifelike than Medieval art is that is uses

• ordinary objects

• naturalism

• perspective

• classical influences

A famous work by Leonardo da Vinci that was commissioned by the Catholic Church is

• Mona Lisa

• La Primavera

• The Last Supper

• The Birth of Venus

During the Renaissance, applying humanist ideas to government meant that people began to

• support government more.

• support government less

• debate about government

• hold elections for government

Italy During the Renaissance is best described as

• an important center of trade

• a secondary place for trade

• an ally of the Ottoman Empire

• an opponent of the Ottoman Empire

In addition to patronage, merchant families during the Renaissance began to

• educate their sons.

• practice new religions

• establish new businesses

• hide their wealth.

Based on the map, which had occurred by 1560?

• Anglicanism had spread from England across Western Europe into small pockets in Eastern Europe

• Germany had become mostly Lutheran as a result of the strong Protestant influence.

• France had become mostly Calvinist as a result of Calvinism spreading across central Europe.

• Lutheranism was the dominant religion in Austria and was practiced by most of the people who lived there.