Renaissance Vocabulary Quiz

What does the word, patron, mean?

• the broad educational, literary, and cultural movement involving the studia humanitatis
• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
• a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

What does the word, Humanism, mean?

• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
• A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
• The 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events

What does the word, secular, mean?

• technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain
• the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion
• of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals

What does the word, Classical, mean?

• a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language
• of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals

What does the word, perspective, mean?

• the broad educational, literary, and cultural movement involving the studia humanitatis
• the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
• a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter

What does the word, Renaissance, mean?

• a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom
• a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
• the 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events

What is a Renaissance man?

• a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
• a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.

What does the word, vernacular, mean?

• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
• a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
• of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals

What is a Printing press?

• originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
• machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink
• The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.

What is a Wood Block?

• originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
• a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
• machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink