Chapter 20 Test - The Renaissance & Reformation

1. The word ​ (a)   means rebirth in French.

2. Many Renaissance works of art focused on ​ (b)   , or worldly, topics.

3. The ​ (c)   of Italian cities was one reason the Renaissance began there.

4. Italy was a collection of ​ (d)   rather than a unified country.

5. A ​ (e)   is a full time soldier that fights in an army for money.

• Renaissance
• secular
• wealth
• city-states
• mercenary

Secular ideas focus on ______.

• religious events

• worldly events

• ancient events

• Italian events

The city of Florence ______.

• made money from shipbuilding

• was built on canals

• raised sheep and shipped wool to England

• set up a banking system that measured the value of money

The Renaissance philosophy of humanism included a belief in the

• need for foreign trade.

• worth of the individual.

• importance of tradition.

• authority of government.

What economic change during the Renaissance made bankers more important?

• Jobs became more specialized.

• Craftspeople set out signs to advertise their services.

• People began to buy goods with money instead of bartering.

• Food for people in the cities began to be grown in the countryside.

Match the following

• Developed printing in Europe

• Albrecht Dürer

• Italian artist that painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Italian painter & scientist

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• German painter and printmaker

• William Shakespeare

• English Renaissance writer

• Johannes Gutenberg

Humanist scholars began to write ______, which allowed more people to read the works.

• only in Italian

• in vernacular languages

• only in English

• in classical languages

______________ produced the first printed book in Europe.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Michaelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespear

German inventor given credit for developing a printing press using movable metal type.

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Raphael Sanzio

Who was painter of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael Sanzio

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Dante Alighieri