Unit 9 and 10 Assessment

The 1300s-1600s is considered the Renaissance in Europe.

What does the word renaissance mean?

• rebirth

• recreation

• re-acclimation

Why was the city-state of Florence in Italy important to the early Renaissance?

• The Renaissance started there

• The pope lived there.

• It was built on canals.

• It had the world's first printing press.

What family ruled Florence for almost 300 years and with their wealth sponsored Renaissance, artists, architects and scholars?

• the Fiore family

• the Medici family

• the da Vinci family

• the Galilei family

How did the Medici family gain the wealth (money) to become patrons (sponors of artists, architects and scholars)?

• They were large scale farmers

• They were merchants and bankers

• They owned art galleries

• They were kings who conquered other kingdoms

During the Renaissance, Florentines were greatly inspired by what kind of thinking?

• classicism

• despotism

• humanism

• nationalism

What did Renaissance architects study and model their own buildings after?

• British and French castles

• Spanish and Irish stone circles

• Roman and Greek ruins

• Chinese and Indian pagodas

In his book, "The Prince," Niccolò Machiavelli, a Renaissance writer and political advisor, advises rulers to

• base their rule on morals, rather than on economics.

• use religion as a guide, rather than personal beliefs.

• be loved by their people, rather than feared by them.

• do what works best, rather than do what is moral.

During the Renaissance people began to write in the vernacular (native language) rather than Latin.

Who was the first well-known writer to write in a native language?

• Petrarch

• Dante Alighieri

• Boccaccio

• Donatello

Which artist created the famous large marble statue of David that stood in the plaza in Florence, Italy?

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Donatello

During the Renaissance, which development contributed most to the Protestant Reformation

• the development of sea routes to India from Portugual

• the development of mathematics

• questioning traditional authority

• the Spanish Inquisition