Renaissance Test

What does the word “Renaissance” mean?

• Relearn

• Growth

• Flourishing

• Rebirth

What was the “silver lining” of the Black Death?

• It made money available to the wealthy to give to the arts and education

• Inspired artists who otherwise might never have become artists

• Helped create a class system that made the line between “rich” and “poor” more clearer than ever

• Helped create a cure for the plague and the lesser known blue plague which followed it

Florence became a center of the Renaissance in part because it

• Was the former capital of the Roman Empire

• Was where the Pope lived

• Had an unusually high population of artistic people

• Was a center of trade and commerce

What new class of people appeared during the Renaissance?

• Middle Class

• Soldiers

• Peasants

• Lower Class

A humanist philosophy believes

• people can know the difference between right and wrong and make better decisions through education

• that people are only one step along an evolutionary chain that began with lower forms of life such as apes and will eventually evolve into a new species, even smarter than man

• that although people have free will, that free will should be considered less important than the will of the noble class

• that the arts are the only thing that will make people better, and that religion was leading people down a dark path

One important consequence of the invention of the printing press and the publication of the Gutenberg Bible was

• more widespread literacy

• more money for Italy's noble class

• better attendance at church services across Europe

• insuring the Gutenberg family would always have a source of income

What helped bring Europe out of a seemingly endless period of darkness?

• Victory in war

• Investing in arts and sciences

• Renewed focus on faith in God

• Exploration of unknown lands

What era was Europe coming out of before the Renaissance?

• Classical Era

• Middle Ages

• Modern Era

• Prehistory

Which of the following BEST describes the Dark Ages(Middle Ages)?

• A period where intellectual advances and Greek and Roman ideas and technologies were not widespread.

• A period where intellectual advances and Indian and Chinese ideas and technologies were not widespread.

• A period which saw the decline of feudalism and the rise of large empires

• A period where intellectual advances and British and American ideas and technologies were widespread

Which of the following events was Europe recovering from before the Renaissance?

• Peloponnesian Wars

• World War II

• The Black Death

• The Great Fire of 1666