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WorksheetsCh. 13 - Renaissance Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The term "humanism" when applied to Renaissance Italy, refers primarily to the:
Renewed interest in the scientific method at many Italian universities.
Capitalist values advanced by the leading Italian merchant bankers.
Anti-religious movement among leading Italian intellectuals.
Scholarly interest in the study of the classical cultures of Greece and Rome.
The term "Renaissance" in a historical context refers to:
An abandonment of the beliefs and values of the Middle Ages
A great awakening and enlightenment in science and reason
A rebellion against the Catholic Church
A rebirth a classical culture and reexamination of humanity
Renaissance courtiers were:
People who worked for the Venetian Republic.
Slaves of the doge of Venice.
People who served a prince in multiple political and administrative ways.
Military leaders whose conquests spread the Renaissance to Northern Europe.
Liberal education (humanities) in the Renaissance included all of the following EXCEPT:
a mastery of Greek and Latin.
the mastery of engineering and mechanics.
the study of music.
the ability to write poetry and appreciate good works of art.
Civic humanists:
Advocated active service to the city-state
Opposed the use of public funds to patronize artists
Supported a theocracy in Florence
Opposed the republican form of government
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance?
Re-emphasis on the culture of antiquity.
Search for balance and proportion in politics.
The development of a historical and critical view of the world.
Strong anti-Christian sentiment.
Northern humanists differed from their Italian predecessors:
by concentrating on the ancient Greek authors.
in that they had no need for rich patrons to support their work.
in their focus on the textual reexamination of the Bible and the writings of the early Church Fathers.
by refusing to use the vernacular in their work.
Italian society different from the rest of Europe during the Renaissance in which of the following ways?
Strong traditions of kingship
Poltical unity centered on the papacy
Number of urban commercial centers
Rapid pace of agricultural innovation
Which of the following best describe the signori?
Powerful military leaders brought in by merchant oligarchs
Sworn associates of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds
Government by one-man rule in Italian cities such as Milan
New converts to Christianity in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition
The passage above most accurately describes:
Lorenzo d'Medici
John Calvin
Desiderius Erasmus
Philip II
The political assessment above of Renaissance citizens can be found in
Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
More’s Utopia
Machiavelli’s The Prince
This quotation above expresses the views of which of the following?
Henry VII of England
Catherine de’ Medici
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Niccolo Machiavelli
In writing the passage above, Machiavelli drew on his observations of:
Feudal warfare in medieval Europe
Warfare among the Italian city-states
Sixteenth-century religious wars
Warfare among the European colonial powers
Which of the following describes the Christian humanism of Erasmus?
A complete break with Roman Catholic theology
A defense of individual interpretation of the Bible
A plea for a return to monasticism as the highest Christian calling
The application of Renaissance scholarship to questions of religious and moral reform
The word vernacular is used to describe:
the structure of the human skeleton.
a type of crossbow used by British archers in the Hundred Years' War.
the early printing press typesets.
the spoken language of an area.
Baldassare Castiglione, in his work, The Courtier
provided a handbook for politicians.
suggested the proper social graces for a young Renaissance noble.
condemned the Church.
insisted upon the complete equality of social classes.
In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli argued that:
a prince must always behave in a moral fashion.
the prince's highest obligation was to God.
the prince's highest obligation was the preservation of his state.
the prince's highest duty was the accumulation of personal wealth.
In Utopia, Thomas More:
illustrated the northern humanists' break with the Catholic church.
represented the high point of northern humanist thought.
presented a revolutionary social order based on communal living and property.
stressed that the end always justified the means in politics.
The painting above, "Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel, is distinguished by an emphasis on the portrayal of the everyday life in peasant villages. The art movement it represents is which of the following?
Mannerism
Northern Renaissance
Late Medieval Period
Italian Renaissance
Mannerist art was characterized by:
formality, balance, and restraint
emphasis on decorative design
extravagant use of bright colors and abstract design
distorted human figures and unnatural lighting effects
Italian Renaissance art can be most appropriately described as:
a revolt against the classical style and the advancement of a new artistic standard based on humanism.
a return to Classicism in which the traditional characteristics of harmony and symmetry were valued.
characterized by the spectacular and the deliberately nonsymmetrical.
romantic idealism predicated upon notions of secular fantasy.
Identify whether or not the image is from the Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance period.
Renaissance
Medieval
Classical
Identify whether or not the image is from the Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance period.
Renaissance
Medieval
Classical
Identify whether or not the image is from the Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance period.
Renaissance
Medieval
Classical
Identify whether or not the image is from the Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance period.
Renaissance
Medieval
Classical
