Renaissance Quiz

What was not a thriving city of the Italian Renaissance?

• Venice

• Rome

• Florence

• Naples

Name the great Florentine painter and sculptor whose works include the Pietà and the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

• Brunelleschi

• Leonard da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

What was the Renaissance?

• a rebirth of classical learning in the Middle East between the late fourteenth and the early seventeenth centuries

• an era of renewed interest in classical Greece and Rome in the eighteenth century

• a period of renewed interest in the ancient civilizations of Europe in the thirteenth century

• a period of artistic and literary achievement in Europe between the late fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Which Renaissance artist was famous for his paintings of Mary and the infant Jesus and The School of Athens, which was painted in the library of Pope Julius II?

• Botticelli

• Raphael

• Brunelleschi

• Donatello

Which of the following best summarizes the significance of the Renaissance?

• artists and writers created extraordinary art and literature that combined new and traditional subjects with classical styles and new ideas

• nations developed complex political systems that copied those of classical Greece and Rome

• schools began to teach classical Greek and Roman works and rejected more recent Christian ideas

What does not accurately describe a result of the invention of the printing press?

• Books became available to many people throughout Europe.

• Books became less expensive to purchase.

• Books became expensive due to the high demand for them.

• The literacy rate began to rise as interest in learning grew.

Which northern European Renaissance artist was one of the first to paint on wood panels with oil paint? He also painted the famous Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, which had many realistic details and symbols.

• Albrecht Dürer

• Hans Holbein the Younger

• El Greco

• Jan van Eyck

Which statement about the Elizabethan Age is false?

• Queen Elizabeth was the ruler of England.

• The most active part of literary life in Elizabethan London occurred in the theater.

• London was a prosperous city of merchants and shopkeepers.

• There were no patrons in England to support the arts.

Which was one of Machiavelli's main arguments in The Prince?

• political power should be based on Christian principles

• democracy produces few good leaders

• a good ruler should do whatever is necessary to secure and unite his state

Which of the following best defines humanism?

• an education program that fourteenth-century scholars used to teach students about classical Rome and Greece

• a movement that stressed the wisdom of the classics, human dignity, and human potential

• the idea proposed by Renaissance artists that all works of art should show humans as lifelike figures