Renaissance & Reformation

What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?

• Christian devotion

• art and learning

• chivalry and tournaments

• good health after the plague

The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?

• human potential and achievements

• an understanding of early Christianity

• an understanding of ancient Muslim values

• Roman law and government

For what is the Medici family famous?

• for being artists

• for being writers

• for being rulers and supporters of the arts

• for being religious reformers

What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg printed?

• Utopia

• Romeo and Juliet

• the Bible

• The Prince

In what way did Leonardo Da Vinci represent the Renaissance Man?

• He was a painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist.

• He painted the Mona Lisa while holding scientific discussions.

• He lived in Italy during the 1500s.

• He used perspective in all of his paintings and drawings.

Luther protested the selling of indulgences. What does that mean?

• Clergy members bought indulgences to reach higher offices.

• The clergy sold pardons that released people from performing penalties for their sins.

• Charles V told his people that buying indulgences was a way to earn a place in heaven.

• Indulgences permitted priests to marry and have children.

Who declared himself the head of the English Church?

• Henry VIII

• John Knox

• Martin Luther

• Emperor Charles V

German monk who nailed 95 theses to the church door, starting the Protestant Reformation

• Henry VIII

• Renaissance humanist thinking was based on

• Martin Luther

• Mary I

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An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• Michelangelo

• Giovanni de Medici

• Humanism (Renaissance)

• John Calvin

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this was the pope that used the sale of indulgences to rebuild a basilica and he was also the pope who challenged Martin Luther

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• Henry VIII

• William Shakespeare

• Pope Leo X