Renaissance Leadership and Reformation Quiz

What characteristics make a good leader?

• Honesty

• Laziness

• Cruelty

• Intelligence

Can you think of any examples of strong leaders?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Julius Caesar

• Cleopatra

• Marilyn Monroe

Isabella D'Este met many famous humanist and artists as a girl. True or False?

• True

• False

• Not mentioned

• Partially true

Isabella D'Este's court became a center of what?

• Science

• Art

• Religion

• War

Machiavelli observed and analyzed like a scientist uses what?

• Experiment and observation

• Microscope and telescope

• Calculator and compass

• Data and statistics

Machiavelli seems to think that 'the end justifies the means.' What does this mean?

• The process is more important than the result

• The result is more important than the process

• The means should be ethical

• The end should be ethical

Not everyone in the Renaissance appreciated Machiavelli's frankness and view of what?

• Religion

• Leadership

• Science

• Art

Martin Luther was influenced by whom?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Galileo Galilei

• Niccolo Machiavelli

In 1517, Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the where?

• Church door

• Castle gate

• Marketplace wall

• Town hall

The Catholic Counter-Reformation was a response to what?

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Renaissance

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Enlightenment