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The Renaissance Begins

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Bring back goods, ideas, and Classical learning from the East was a result of the 
a)
Crusades
b)
Hundred Years' War
c)
Age of Chivilary
d)
Catholic Church
2.
The Roman Catholic Church kept learning alive by _____ documents from the Classical period.
a)
destroying
b)
preserving
c)
outlawing
d)
excommunicating
3.
The _____ is a rediscovery of Greek and Roman Culture.
a)
Classical Age
b)
Medieval Period
c)
Reformation
d)
Renaissance
4.
_____ art is often religious, has solid backgrounds, with stiff and unrealistic figures.
a)
Classical
b)
Medieval
c)
Renaissance
5.
_____ art is often nude, without backgrounds, and has active bodies and unemotional faces.
a)
Classical
b)
Medieval
c)
Renaissance 
6.
_____ art is often lifelike, with nature, and emotion and paintings are three-dimensional. 
a)
Classical
b)
Medieval
c)
Renaissance
7.
Bankers became more important because people started to use _____ during the Renaissance.
a)
barter
b)
ATM's
c)
money
d)
checks
8.
Wealthy merchants and bankers became patrons of the _____.
a)
arts
b)
Church
c)
Crusades
d)
trades
9.
Wealthy city-states were independent of each other and _____ for trade and art with each other.
a)
fought
b)
worked together
c)
competed
d)
didn't care 
10.
Renaissance _____ believed that individual people could shape their own lives and achieve great things.
a)
Church leaders
b)
humanists
c)
clergy
d)
merchants
11.
The _____ is the study of art, architecture, government, history, poetry, and language that started in the Renaissance.
a)
technologies
b)
languages
c)
sciences
d)
humanities
12.
The Renaissance is often called the beginning of _____ times because, the use of money, the middle class, and Humanism all began then. 
a)
classical
b)
medieval
c)
modern
d)
future
13.
Renaissance is the _____ of classical culture.
a)
rewarming
b)
rebirth
c)
rejection
d)
reentry 
14.
A major reason the Renaissance began in Italy, was the _____ there became wealthy.
a)
city-states
b)
artists
c)
Church
d)
flying buttresses
15.
Our society spends its money on sports, music, and movies. In the Renaissance they spent their money on _____.
a)
art
b)
architecture
c)
literature
d)
they spent it on all of these things
16.

The Renaissance began

a)

at the beginning of the Middle Ages.

b)

at the end of the Roman Empire.

c)

At the end of the Middle Ages.

d)

at the beginning of the Roman Empire

17.

The Silk Road

a)

made Italian city-states wealthy.

b)

made Italian artists better.

c)

made Italian armies stronger.

d)

made Italian kings more powerful.

18.

"I have made a lot of money in business. I will hire an artist to paint my wife's portrait."

a)

I'm an artist

b)

I'm a priest

c)

I'm a patron

d)

I'm a lord

19.

Who had the most power in Italian city-states?

a)

priests and bishops

b)

kings and emperors

c)

serfs and peasants

d)

merchants and bankers

20.

This picture shows

a)

Germany's great location for trade.

b)

Italy's great location for trade.

c)

France's great location for trade.

d)

Spain's great location for trade.

21.

The Middle Ages was about the _____, where the Renaissance was about the _____.

a)

peasants; lords

b)

town; Church

c)

castle; cathedral

d)

group; individual

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