The Renaissance Quiz

What era is known as the "rebirth" after the Middle Ages, marking the transition to the early modern world?

• The Enlightenment

• The Renaissance

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Middle Ages

What intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance focused on education and the classics?

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Humanism

• Modernism

Which subjects were taught in ancient Greece and Rome and are collectively known as the Humanities?

• Mathematics, Science, and Technology

• Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry, and History

• Music, Art, and Dance

• Economics, Politics, and Sociology

Who was the early humanist and Italian poet who preserved Greek and Roman manuscripts in a large library?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Francesco Petrarch

• Desiderius Erasmus

Which wealthy banking family controlled the city-state of Florence and were generous patrons of the arts?

• The Borgias

• The Medicis

• The Habsburgs

• The Tudors

Which city-state in Italy came to symbolize the Renaissance?

• Venice

• Rome

• Florence

• Milan

Who painted The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper?

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

Who wrote The Prince?

• Thomas More

• William Shakespeare

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Johann Gutenberg

Who invented the movable type printing press?

• Albrecht Durer

• Johann Gutenberg

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Desiderius Erasmus

In which region of northern Europe did the northern Renaissance begin?

• Scandinavia

• Flanders

• Iberia

• The Balkans