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Renaissance Practice #2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What artistic, scientific and academic movement began in Italy during the mid 1300's?

a)

Urban Society

b)

Renaissance

c)

Rebirth

d)

The Prince

2.

A new painting technique that showed distance in paintings?

a)

Perspective

b)

Greece and Rome

c)

Building designer

d)

Sfumato

3.

Many painters during the Renaissance started to study ____________ to show the body realistically

a)

Perspective

b)

Greece and Rome

c)

Anatomy

d)

Art

4.

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

a)

Perspective

b)

Building designer

c)

Printing Press

d)

The internet

5.

Which was a reason that the Renaissance started in Italy?

a)

Italy had a cold climate that kept people indoors and talking about ideas.

b)

Because of their access to waterways, many of the Italian city-states had become wealthy through trade.

c)

Italy was a center for religious freedom. Many people from different places came there to escape religious persecution.

d)

Italy had more natural resources than any area near it.

6.

How did people look for knowledge and information after the Scientific Revolution?

a)

They only ever looked to religion

b)

They took the word of the ancient greeks

c)

They tested new ideas to see if they were true

d)

They googled it

7.

Who was given credit for proving the Heliocentric theory?

a)

Galileo

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Copernicus

d)

Ptolemy

8.

What is the (false) theory that said that the sun and planets revolve around the Earth

a)

Heliocentric

b)

Geocentric

c)

Geographic

d)

The global theory

9.

Where did most people in the middle ages look for answers to all problems

a)

Science

b)

The many books available

c)

Religion

d)

They googled it

10.

What does this picture show about Leonardo da Vinci

a)

He was good at drawing

b)

He studied astronomy

c)

He was interested in anatomy

d)

He must have had an x-ray machine

11.

What did humanists like Petrarch think that people should be concerned with?

a)

The afterlife

b)

Making this life as good as possible

c)

Studying history

d)

Making cupcakes

12.
Why was the invention of the printing press so important?
a)
It embodied the spirit of the Renaissance
b)
It made books available to a wider audience
c)
It made Johannes Gutenburg famous
d)
It spurred the invention of the telescope
13.

The first moveable type of printing press that allowed mass production of materials was invented by

a)

Leonardo da Vinci.

b)

Johannes Gutenberg.

c)

William Shakespeare.

d)

Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni.

14.
Born in Stratford England, __________ was one of its most popular playwrights and helped shape the Northern Renaissance.
a)
Dante Alighieri
b)
Cervantes
c)
Pieter Bruegel
d)
William Shakespeare
15.

In "The Prince" Machiavelli stated what as his thesis?

a)

It is better to be loved than feared

b)

It is better to be feared than loved

c)

It is better to fear love

d)

It is better to love fear