Renaissance Vocabulary Quiz

A German printer who invented movable type (printing press). With this method, individual letters formed in metal could be used again and again to form words, lines, and pages of text.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Johannes Kepler

• Albert Einstein

• Ludwig van Beethoven

Someone who gives money or other support to a group or person.

• Patron

• Beneficiary

• Opponent

• Critic

The view that religion does not need to be the center of human affairs.

• Secularism

• Theocracy

• Fundamentalism

• Spiritualism

Everyday spoken language of the people.

• Vernacular

• Formal

• Technical

• Literary

The belief that the individual was more important than the group or community.

• Individualism

• Collectivism

• Socialism

• Communalism

Famous English playwright who lived during the English Renaissance. He wrote 37 plays in his life and many poems.

• William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Ben Jonson

• Thomas Kyd

A mathematical system for representing three-dimensional shapes on a flat surface.

• Linear Perspective

• Orthographic Projection

• Isometric Drawing

• Axonometric Projection

Invention by Gutenberg as a moveable type in the 1400s.

• Printing Press

• Typewriter

• Telegraph

• Radio

A cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classics. They focused on learning to live a better earthly life rather than preparing for eternity.

• Humanism

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism

• Scholasticism

A great cultural revival that swept through Europe in the 1300s. The term is a French word that means, “rebirth.”

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

• Baroque