Study Guide for Renaissance Test

The term "renaissance" means ...

• confusion

• reform

• rebirth

• storm

Humanists were inspired by an interest in studying the "classics" of

• Catholic doctrine

• Greece and Rome

• Buddhist philosophy

• Scientific writings

Dante Algallari and Geoffery Chaucer are examples of authors who first wrote in the ...

• classical styles

• vernacular

• modern Latin

• ancient Greek

The Renaissance began in the city of Florence, Italy due to trade and the development of banking. Which family became non-royal rulers of Florence and patrons of Renaissance artists?

• Jesuits

• Tudor

• Medici

• da Vinci

Which famous Renaissance artist was a sculptor, painter, and architect who created the statue of David, the Pieta, and the Sistine Chapel artwork?

• Donatello

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Petrarch

Which Renaissance artis was talented in a wide variety of areas but was most famous for painting the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?

• Michaelangelo

• Thomas More

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Desiderius Erasmus

Who was the English Renaissance playwright and poet that became the most widely quoted author in the English language?

• Francesco Petrarch

• Thomas More

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• William Shakespeare

How did the new scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries prove their theories and make new discoveries?

• by reading, studying, and believing the Bible

• by questioning, experimenting and observing

• by learning from the Greek thinker, Aristotle

• by copying Renaissance humanists and scholars

Identify the German priest who started the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Martin Luther

• Thomas More

• Machavelli

Which English monarch determined that England would remain protestant, never married, ruled for 44 years, and became the great, powerful ruler that her father had wanted in a son.

• Elizabeth I

• Mary I

• James V

• Henry VIII