Renaissance Quiz

Focusing on the classics, beauty, and the human body is known as_______.

• Classical

• Humanism

• Reformation

• Protestantism

Leonardo da Vinci painted the...

• Sistine Chapel

• Mona Lisa

• Scream

• Soup

What was the Renaissance?

• A new trade theory that led to wars in Italy.

• A location in Italy that became the center for trade.

• A way of thinking that led to heresy in Italy.

• A "rebirth" in culture and learning that took place in Europe.

True or False: Greek and Roman civilizations were an important influence on the Renaissance humanists?

• True

• False

What happened because Johann Gutenberg developed a printing press that used movable type.

• Reading was not important in many European cities and people struggled to learn new information

• The availability of books would change the way information and ideas traveled in Europe and around the world.

• Gutenberg made a large amount of money and gave all the money to the German government.

• Books were not allowed to be printed in countries such as China and The Chinese remained in the Middle Ages.

True or False: William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet

• True

• False

True or False: Michelangelo painted the Mona Lisa

• True

• False

Answer explanation

He painted the Sistine Chapel. Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

Who wrote Don Quixote

• Michaelangelo

• William Shakespeare

• Cervantes

• Martin Luther

True or False: Martin Luther posted the Ninety-nine Theses on a church door

• True

• False

Which of the following was one of Luther’s central Reformation ideas?

• Infants should not be baptized.

• Women should be allowed in the priesthood.

• The Jesuits should spread religious faith.

• Anyone could have a relationship with God without the help of the clergy