Renaissance/Reformation Quiz

The Renaissance began in what Italian city?

• Rome

• Venice

• Florence

• Milan

What allowed Italy to become the birthplace of the Renaissance?

• Increased trade in many cities

• The plague didn't hit Italy hard

• Italy had a history of advanced art & writing

• All of the Above

The Renaissance was funded in large part by whom?

• Artists and Writers

• Church leaders and the Medici Family

• Knights returning from the Crusades

• People moving to the cities from the Manors

The intellectual movement in the Renaissance that stressed human talent and potential was known as ____.

• Perspective

• Humanism

• Mercantilism

• Hellenism

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo could paint, sculpt, invent, and design. So, therefore, they were considered ____.

• Renaissance Men

• Architects

• Entrepreneurs

• Barons

The most famous painting of Leonardo da Vinci was ____.

• The School of Athens

• Sistine Chapel

• The Mona Lisa

• Maddalena Donni

Renaissance art differed from Medieval art in that it illustrated ____.

• Religion

• 2-D objects

• Secularism

• Perspective

Michelangelo's most famous painting was the ____.

• Last Supper

• Mona Lisa

• Sistine Chapel

• School of Athens

How did Renaissance writing differ from the Middle Ages?

• It increased religious material

• Humanism characteristics declined

• It became less descriptive

• It illustrated personal emotions

Which of these was NOT a corruption of the Catholic Church in the 1500s?

• Indulgences

• Relics

• Communion

• Pilgrimages