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Renaissance Vocabulary

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The word Renaissance means ______?
a)
redeath
b)
rebirth
c)
a city in Europe
d)
a Japanese knight
2.
Becoming interested in the world and human achievements, rather than religion. 
a)
diplomacy
b)
Renaissance
c)
secular
d)
Venice
3.
A person who had great power over a council of nobles
a)
doge
b)
knight
c)
king
d)
peasant
4.
Negotiating or making deals with other countries. 
a)
democracy
b)
theocracy 
c)
monarch 
d)
diplomacy
5.
People who valued the ancient Greeks and Romans values, individuals and human society. 
a)
humanism
b)
scientific revolution
c)
reformation
d)
renaissance
6.
Vernacular is the way everyday language that most people spoke. Choose an example of what language was spoken back then.
a)
Latin
b)
Italian
c)
Greek
d)
English
7.
Painting created on wet plaster.  These were popular in churches all over Italy.
a)
sculpture 
b)
chiaroscuro
c)
allegro 
d)
fresco
8.
A technique that Renaissance painters used to soften the edges of an object by using light and shadows.  
a)
fresco
b)
chiaroscuro
c)
Titian
d)
Michelangelo
9.
True or False: Michelangelo painted the Mona Lisa.
a)
True 
b)
False
10.
True or False: Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor as well as a famous painter.
a)
True 
b)
False
11.
True or False: Medieval art is more realistic that renaissance art.  
a)
True
b)
False