Renaissance and Reformation Review

What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?

• Christian devotion

• classical art and learning

• chivalry and tournaments

• good health after the plague

Which Renaissance author wrote "it is much safer to be feared than loved..."?

• Shakespeare

• Machiavelli

• Erasmus

• Petrarch

What is a patron?

• A wealthy artist

• A wealthy supporter of artists

• A poor artist

• A wealthy merchant

What time period is this art from?

• Classical

• Medieval

• Renaissance

What do humanists best think of human potential in the Renaissance?

• Humans cannot do anything

• God is responsible for everything

• Humans are capable of anything and everything

• Humans are best served for farmwork

If you or I were speaking in my vernacular language, or the language we use every day, what language would we be speaking?

• English

• Italian

• German

• Chinese

A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

Who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper?

• Michelangelo
• Boticceli
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Donatello

Michelangelo is best known for completing which piece of work shown here?

• The Last Supper

• The School of Athens

• The Sistine Chapel

• The Mona Lisa

What effect did the invention of the printing press have on Europe?

• Literacy increased and ideas spread more easily

• Books took longer than ever to make

• The Church banned the use of the printing press to keep people uneducated

• Monarchs quickly began to print and spread lies