Renaissance Test

Which of the following describes the economic foundations of the Renaissance?

• The Crusades were not politically successful, so the power of Italy declined

• The Crusades sparked trade in Europe and the Middle East and merchants invested in art

• The Crusades made the church more powerful and rich

• The Crusades increased trade with Russia and the Byzantine Empire, which led to a spread of culture

Humanism was created to-

• Devotion to the church

• Gaining absolute power

• Devaluing education

• Celebrate the individual

Who wrote The Prince? A book all about gaining absolute power and doing what you needed to stay in power.

• Sir Thomas More

• Machiavelli

• Dante

• Petrarch

This invention helped to spread new ideas during the Renaissance, who invented it?

• Michelangelo

• Machiavelli

• Johann Gutenberg

• Erasmus

Who sculpted this statue?

• Michelangelo

• Machiavelli

• Da Vinci

• Peter Bruegel

The Italian Renaissance started in ___________.

• Italy

• France

• Holy Roman Empire

• Constantinople

Which person is NOT paired correctly with their work?

• Machiavelli- The Prince

• Leonardo Da Vinci- The Sistine Chapel

• Erasmus- The Praise of Folly

• Petrarch- Poetry

Machiavelli's political writings in The Prince, supported ________________________.

• Having parliament

• Limited monarchy

• Absolute power

• Sharing power

The Renaissance was the rebirth of _______ and _______ ideas.

• Greece and Byzantine

• Russian and Byzantine

• Roman and Russian

• Roman and Greek

Which concept most influenced the Renaissance?

• Romanticism

• Catholicism

• Humanism

• Feudalism