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Renaissance

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was one of the ways the Renaissance spread from Italy to other places in Europe?

a)

The Black Death caused refugees who carried the ideas with them

b)

The Catholic Church required everyone in Europe to copy the ideas of the Italian city-states

c)

Several armies invaded Italy. The soldiers spread stories of what they saw when they returned home

d)

The Crusades carried ideas from Italy to the Middle East

2.

What sculpture is this?

a)

David by Donatello

b)

Danny by Raphael

c)

David by Leonardo

d)

David by Michelangelo

3.

What was an explosion of discoveries and ideas that started in Europe during the 1500s?

a)

Enlightenment

b)

Protestant Reformation

c)

Black Death

d)

Scientific Revolution

4.

Where do historians feel the Renaissance began in Italy?

a)

Twin Valley Middle School

b)

Venice

c)

Florence

d)

The Globe Theater

5.

One of the most important ideas from the Renaissance that allowed ideas to spread more quickly.

a)

Perspective

b)

Greece and Rome

c)

Building designer

d)

Printing Press

6.

Philosophers and painters of the Renaissance and wanted to return to the times of ...

a)

Perspective

b)

Greece and Rome

c)

The Middle Ages

d)

about 3 weeks ago

7.

Florence, Milan, Rome were all Italian ____________ during the Renaissance

a)

Frescos

b)

Humanisms

c)

City States

d)

Architects

8.

Which was a key intellectual movement or philosophy of the Renaissance?

a)

Humanism

b)

City State

c)

Cultural relativism

d)

Behavioralism

9.

A painting technique done on fresh wet plaster...

a)

Humanism

b)

Fresco

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Perspective

10.

Who was the painter of the Sistine Chapel?

a)

da Vinci

b)

Raphael

c)

Machiavelli

d)

Michelangelo

11.

What is a city-centered culture like Renaissance Italy referred to as?

a)

Urban Society

b)

Dowry

c)

Secular

d)

Middle Ages

12.

What does the word Renaissance translate to?

a)

Rebirth

b)

New Born

c)

Secular

d)

Dowry

13.

Book of Machiavelli which stated it was "okay to do bad if you do good for your people"....

a)

Dante's Inferno

b)

Dowry

c)

Secular

d)

The Prince

14.
What provided the major economic support for the Renaissance?
a)
wealthy patrons
b)
church officials
c)
government grants
d)
kings competing for prestige
15.
What is the artistic technique that is used to show depth and distance on a flat surface?
a)
realism
b)
perspective
c)
idealism
d)
distancism
16.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
a)
Michelangelo
b)
Boticceli
c)
Leonardo da Vinci
d)
Donatello
17.
The Medici Family...
a)
Were the first mafia family to live in Italy
b)
Were the most famous painters in Florence
c)
Were the family of Mona Lisa
d)
Were patrons of the arts in Florence
18.

Whose famous writings are the picture shown above?

a)

Da Vinci

b)

Donatello

c)

Fresco

d)

Michelangelo

19.

Architect....

a)

Perspective

b)

Greece and Rome

c)

Building designer

d)

Printing Press

20.

What was the theory that said that the Earth and all the planets revolve around the sun?

a)

Geocentric

b)

Heliocentric

c)

Geographic

d)

The Earth is flat