WorksheetsRenaissance "New Ideas and Literature"
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes
Johannes Gutenberg
Dante Alighrieri
Leonardo da Vinci
Who developed a moveable type of printing press?
Leonardo da Vinci
Dante Alighieri
Johannes Gutenberg
William Shakespeare
Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
Hamlet
The idea that individual and human society were important.
Humanism
Democrary
Human Rights
Feudalism
Considered one of the greatest scientists of the Renaissance.
Isaac Newton
Johannes Gutenberg
Leonardo da Vinci
Christopher Columbus
Humanism was based on the values of what two ancient groups of people?
Egyptians and Greeks
Greeks and Turks
Israelites and Romans
Romans and Greeks
Humanist ideas led to advances in _____, or the art of making maps.
Geometry
Geography
Cartography
Cardiology
Educated people wrote in Latin, but when writers wanted to reach more people, they wrote in the ______, or the everyday language of a region
Slang
Jargon
Books
Vernacular
What invention the mid-1400s was key to the spread of humanist ideas throughout Europe?
Compass
Electricity
Printing Press
Telephone
What did humanists encourage men to do?
Get rich or die trying
to be active in their cities and achieve great things
Count their money while they were sitting at the table
Get lost in the woods
