Renaissance & Reformation _World History

Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists

• rejected the learning of Greece and Rome.

• b. used Latin as their language for scholarship.

• c. tended to focus more on worldly subjects.

• d. tended to focus more on spirituality.

One way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting

• scenes that appeared two-dimensional.

• b. stylized rather than realistic people.

• c. large, Gothic-style buildings.

• d. well-known people of the day.

The Swiss city-state of Geneva became a model of Protestant morality under the leadership of

d.

• John Calvin.

• Martin Luther

• John Knox.

• Ulrich Zwingli.

Unlike Francis Bacon, René Descartes believed that the best road to understanding was through

• a. human reasoning.

• b. experimentation.

• c. observation.

• d. hypothesis testing.

In the 1600s, Robert Boyle’s work transformed the field of

• a. medicine.

• astronomy.

• c. chemistry.

• d. philosophy.

The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called the

• a. Reformation.

• b. Middle Ages.

• c. Renaissance.

• d. Medieval Enlightenment.

Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts preserving the works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil?

• a. Francesco Petrarch

• b. Thomas More

• c. Francis Bacon

• d. Thomas Cranmer

What humanist of Northern Europe wrote about his vision of an ideal society, in which people live in peace and harmony?

• a. Sir Thomas More

• c. William Shakespeare

• b. Desiderius Erasmus

• d. François Rabelais

The inventor who perfected the microscope and was the first person to see cells and microorganisms was

• a. Ambroise Paré

• b. Andreas Vesalius

• c. Robert Boyle

• d. Anton van Leeuwenhoek

The calculations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that

• a. Earth spins alone at the center of the universe.

• d. the heavens are in a fixed position in relation to Earth.

• c. the four moons of Venus move slowly around that planet.

• b. the planets move around the sun in oval orbits.