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Ren.Ref.Sci.Age

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This family gave money to the Arts, they were patrons 
a)
Medici
b)
Da Vinci
c)
Brueghel
d)
Gutenberg
2.
This person wrote a book called Utopia, an imaginary place where everyone is treated equal
a)
Brunelleschi
b)
Shakespeare
c)
Thomas More
d)
Francois Rabelais
3.
This person sculpted David and the Pieta and he painted the Sistine Chapel
a)
Da Vinci
b)
Donatello
c)
Louise Labe
d)
Michelangelo
4.

This person wrote a book called the Vindication of Rights of Women

a)
Brueghel
b)

Isabella I

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

d)
Michelangelo
5.

This person wrote using human emotions like love, hate, and fear, reshaped the English language. Wrote over 37 plays like Romeo and Juliet.

a)

Brunelleschi

b)

Pizarro

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Pare

6.

He wrote a book about the different levels of hell called the Divine Comedy or Inferno

a)

Francois Rabelais

b)

Dante

c)

Erasmus

d)

Machiavelli

7.

He sailed on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, he was trying to find a route to India. He arrived in the Bahamas but thought it was India.

a)

Columbus

b)

Pizarro

c)

Machiavelli

d)

Descartes and Bacon

8.

He was the first to circumnavigate (sail around the world). He actually died during the voyage in a battle in the Philippines

a)

Columbus

b)

Magellan

c)

Pizarro

d)

Donatello

9.

He sculpted, painted, invented, & drew. He is the Renaissance man. Painted Mona Lisa, invented the helicopter, and wrote his notes backwards.

a)

Medici

b)

Labe

c)

Galileo

d)

Da VInci

10.

This woman encouraged other women to get an education in her poems

a)

Mary I

b)

Louise Labe

c)

Isabella D'Este

d)

Elizabeth I

11.

Invented the movable type printing press and the first book he published was a Bible

a)

Brunelleschi

b)

Tyndale

c)

Brueghel

d)

Gutenberg

12.

He wrote the Prince, a book where he complains about the abuses of government, specifically the Prince.

a)

Brueghel

b)

Dante

c)

Machiavelli

d)

Tyndale

13.

He nailed 95 theses (complaints) to the All Saints Church door. He was excommunicated by Pope Leo X. Hid for over a year.

a)

Martin Luther

b)

John Calvin

c)

William Tyndale

d)

William Shakespeare

14.

Invented the microscope and named cells, which reminded him of hospital rooms or prison cells

a)

Galileo

b)

Petrarch and Boccaccio

c)

Pizarro

d)

Robert Hooke

15.

Invented the telescope, proved that the earth was round, & that objects fall at the same speed regardless of weight.

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Galileo

c)

Vasco De Gama

d)

Vespucci

16.

Discovered the Laws of Gravity and the three Laws of Motion. (He wondered why an apple would fall down and not float away.)

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Galileo

c)

Vespucci

d)

Vasco De Gama

17.

Sailed to India and back from Portugal by going around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in two years.

a)

Vasco De Gama

b)

Francisco Pizarro

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Ferdinand Magellan

18.
Started a sailing school, a place where people like Columbus and Magellan went to learn to sail 
a)
Leonardo Da Vinci
b)
Michelangelo
c)
Prince Henry the Navigator
d)
Vasco De Gama
19.

Proved that planets rotate in an elliptical (oval) motion around the Sun. This is why we have seasons

a)

Copernicus

b)

Gutenberg

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

Pare

20.
He was gone for over ten years & people thought he was lost. He was in Asia with the Mongols
a)
Dante
b)
Brunelleschi
c)
Marco Polo
d)
Johannes Gutenberg
21.

These two philosophers found lost letters of the Roman and Greek civilizations. Started the use of Humanist ideas. Combined old and new ways of thinking

a)

Bacon and Descartes

b)

Medici and Da VInci

c)

Petrarch and Boccaccio

d)

Copernicus and Kepler

22.
He wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, a book exaggerating the problems of the Catholic Church
a)
Francisco Pizarro
b)
Francois Rabelais
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
Filippo Brunelleschi
23.

These two men came up with the seven steps of the Scientific Method. The Steps are used in Science expirements.

a)

Descartes and Bacon

b)

Copernicus and Kepler

c)

Petrarch and Boccaccio

d)

Mr Houtchens and Ms Mendez

24.

He started the Calvinist church and believed in predestination. He also wrote the book "Institutes of Christianity".

a)

Martin Luther

b)

William Tyndale

c)

Desiderius Erasmus

d)

John Calvin

25.

This Pope excommunicated (kicked out) Martin Luther from the Catholic Church for writing the 95 theses (complaints). He also sold indulgences and crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor.

a)

Pope Urban II

b)

Pope Francis XVI

c)

Pope Leo X

d)

Pope John Paul II

26.

He sailed and realized Columbus had discovered a new Continent. These continents are named after him.

a)

Amerigo Vespucci

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Vasco De Gama

27.

He discovered that the Sun is in the center of all the planets and that the sun has a gravitational pull. This is known as the Heliocentric theory.

a)

Galileo

b)

Johannes Gutenberg

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

Da Vinci

28.

Translated the Bible into English and was burned at the stake

a)

William Tyndale

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Francois Rabelais

29.
Wrote the Book Don Quixote De la Mancha, and reshaped the Spanish language
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Machiavelli
c)
Erasmus
d)
Cervantes
30.
Invented bandages, first to cauterize and stitch people after an injury or surgery
a)
Louise Labe
b)
Pare
c)
Dante
d)
Donatello
31.

Encouraged women to educate themselves. Wrote Poetry.

a)

Louise Labe

b)

Pare

c)

Magellan

d)

Donatello

32.

Wrote the Praise of Folly. Complained about the Church using comedy. He was a humanist priest.

a)

Desirius Erasmus

b)

Francois Rabelais

c)

Pope Leo II

d)

Martin Luther

33.
Made the first self supporting dome of Santa Maria Del Fiori
a)
Da Vinci
b)
Galileo
c)
Kepler
d)
Brunelleschi
34.

Sailed to South America, captured the Inca leader, held him for ransom, although the Incas paid their leader was killed him anyways.

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

Francois Rabelais

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Filippo Brunelleschi

35.
The word Renaissance means 
a)
Rejoice
b)
Redo
c)
Reform
d)
Rebirth
36.

The Renaissance started in

a)

London, England

b)

Florence, Italy

c)

Beijing, China

d)

Sao Paulo, Brazin

37.

Jenner was among the first people to develop a _____________ for small pox

a)

vaccine

b)

thermometer

c)

circulation

d)

diagnosis

38.

King Henry the VIII

a)

started the Church of England and "married" and divorced over 7 times.

b)

agreed with the beliefs of the Catholic Church

c)

sent explorers to the Americas

d)

started the Crusades

39.

This type of science was "developed" by Da Vinci, as he snuck into mortuaries to draw people from the inside out. Drew the structure of bones and muscles.

a)

Da Vinci never snuck in to any place

b)

Da Vinci developed Chemistry

c)

Da Vinci developed Anatomy

d)

Da Vinci developed math but never Science

40.

This Sailor sailed to what today is Mexico City, and conquered the Aztecs.

a)

Hernando De Soto

b)

Bartolemeu Dias

c)

Francisco Pizarro

d)

Hernando Cortes

41.

Galen and Harvey worked to describe

a)

Linear perspective and Sculpting

b)

The circulatory system and the pumping of blood by the heart.

c)

The immune system and why we get sick as humans

d)

The art styles of sfumato and realism

42.

Bartolemeu Dias sailed to

a)

The Bahamas from Portugal

b)

The tip of Australia but then died there

c)

what today is Canada and explored the Hudson River

d)

the tip of South Africa and returned to Portugal

43.

The Reformation was

a)

a time of learning and art

b)

a time of changes in the church due to inappropriate behavior

c)

a time of discoveries in science

d)

a time of discoveries of new lands and areas. "New" to Europeans.

44.

The Scientific Revolution

a)

was a time of art, education, and travel

b)

a time of new discoveries like heliocentric theory, elliptical motion, gravity, and laws of motion

c)

a time of new ideas like Realism, Individualism, and Humanism

d)

a time of travel and exploration to "new" continents

45.

Age of Exploration was a time of

a)

new scientific discoveries, like the Laws of Gravity

b)

a changes in art, education and science

c)

sea exploration, new discoveries of lands and people who did not know of each others excistence.

d)

was a time of new inventions.

46.

Pope Urban II started

a)

the Reformation

b)

the Crusades, holy wars to retake Jerusalem

c)

the Age of exploration by encouraging sailors

d)

invented the Microscope and named cells

47.

Anders Celcius and Gabriel Fahrenheit developed

a)

thermometers and the "keeping" of temperature

b)

the Scientific Method to use in experiments

c)

a new way of painting peasants and rich people

d)

the microscope and the telescope

48.

The ideas of Realism, Humanis, Individualism and Secularism started in......

a)

China during the early 1000's.

b)

the Americas as explorers conquered new land

c)

in Europe during the 2000's and are new ideas to us today

d)

in Europe during the 1300's with the beginning of the Renaissance

49.

Humanism is

a)

the study of one person

b)

the art form of painting people as they really are

c)

the art of painting fresh paint on fresh paint

d)

the study of humans as a group and all of our similarities

50.

Individualism is

a)

the art form of painting people as they really are

b)

the art form of painting wet paint on wet paint

c)

the study of individual people and their individual characteristics

d)

the study of people as a group and all of our similar characteristics