Topics 15 & 16 MId-Chapter Checkpoint Quiz

Why did the growth of trade and industry weaken feudalism?

• Agriculture stopped being profitable because merchants imported food.

• Feudal manors switched from agriculture to manufacturing.

• Peasants left manors for towns where they could find work.

• The rise of a merchant class weakened the power of monarchs.

Which of the following is a major reason that Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance?

• City-states in Italy were centers of trade and commerce.

• Feudalism had been stronger in Italy than in other parts of Europe.

• Italian scholars had preserved much of the learning of ancient Rome.

• Many of the great writers of the Renaissance were Italian.

The secularism of the Renaissance was a shift from what feature of medieval life?

• feudal system

• emphasis on religious values

• manor economy

• study of classical learning

What was Johann Gutenberg's main achievement?

• He invented printing that used movable type.

• He invented wood block printing.

• He popularized the use of the vernacular.

• He translated the Bible into the German language.

The Church began to censor books because

• printed books had become too expensive.

• the literacy rate in Europe was dropping.

• the pope disapproved of use of the vernacular.

• writers began publishing books critical of the Church.

Why did literacy rates rise during the Renaissance?

• Access to books increased.

• More women and men went to universities.

• The Church began to publish its Index of Books.

• The quality of literature improved.

What did the development of linear perspective allow artists to do?

• build domes with precise mathematical proportions

• create more exact technical drawings

• paint three dimensional images on a flat surface

• show human anatomy more accurately

Many major writers of the Renaissance shifted from

• non-fiction to fiction.

• novels to poetry.

• religious subjects to secular subjects.

• the vernacular to classical Latin.

What did Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci have in common?

• They both are best known for their sculptures.

• They both turned away from religious subjects in their art.

• They were both active in many different fields.

• They were both artists of the Northern Renaissance.

The heliocentric theory is the idea that

• all heavenly objects circle Earth.

• Earth is too heavy to move.

• the moon is held in orbit by the force of gravity.

• the sun is at the center of the solar system.