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14.2 New Ideas & Art

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which individual is called the "father" of Humanism?

a)

Dante Alighieri

b)

Francesco Petrarch

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

2.

A Renaissance movement based on Greek & Roman values stating that individuals and human society are important.

a)

Feudalism

b)

Commercialism

c)

Humanism

d)

Animism

3.

"Father" of the Italian language. Writer of The Divine Comedy.

a)

Geoffrey Chaucer

b)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Dante Alighieri

4.

"Father" of English literature. Wrote the Canterbury Tales in the English vernacular.

a)

Geoffrey Chaucer

b)

Johannes Gutenberg

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Albrecht Durer

5.

What is the term for... The everyday language people speak in a meeting?

a)

Canterbury

b)

Ideology

c)

Philosophy

d)

Vernacular

6.

German inventor given credit for developing a printing press using movable metal type.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Geoffrey Chaucer

c)

Johannes Gutenberg

d)

Raphael Sanzio

7.

Who was painter of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael Sanzio

c)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

d)

Dante Alighieri

8.

Art was formal, strict, flat, and only done for religious purposes.

a)

Middle Ages

b)

Renaissance

9.

Art was more realistic, secular, and emotional.

a)

Middle Ages

b)

Renaissance

10.

Who was the painter of the School of Athens?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael Sanzio

c)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

d)

Albrecht Durer

11.

What individual filled notebooks with sketches of artistic ideas, inventions, and scientific ideas?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael Sanzio

c)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

d)

Geoffrey Chaucer

12.

Who was the painter of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of the 13 foot tall statue of David?

a)

Francesco Petrarch

b)

Jan van Eyck

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

13.

What individual is recognized as a master of oil painting? He created the Arnolfini Portrait.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Jan va Eyck

c)

Albrecht Durer

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

14.

What individual was best known for his wood cut engravings? He produced the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

a)

Albrecht Durer

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Lorenzo de Medici

d)

Geoffrey Chaucer

15.

What individual is considered the greatest playwright of the Renaissance era? He wrote plays such as Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet.

a)

Geoffrey Chaucer

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

William Shakespeare

16.

What does it mean to "write in the vernacular"?

a)

To write books in ancient Aramaic.

b)

To write books in ancient Greek.

c)

To write books in ancient Latin.

d)

To write books in the everyday languages that people spoke in their regions: Italian, Spanish, German, English, Portuguese, French.

17.

Why was the printing press so influential to this age of New Ideas? (you can choose all the answers that are correct)

a)

It caused books to be printed faster which caused information to spread faster.

b)

The Bible was printed in vernacular (common) languages for the first time.

c)

More books were printed in the first 50 years of printing than were handwritten by 1450.

d)

More people learned to read and write throughout Europe.

18.
Which of these new painting styles allowed for more life-like paintings?
a)
shading
b)
Perspective
c)
oil painting
d)
Humanism
19.
Michelangelo created all of the following except
a)
sculpture of David
b)
painting on the Sistine Chapel
c)
Pieta
d)
Mona Lisa
20.
Humanism emphasizes
a)
Money
b)
Fame
c)
Individual Achievement
d)
Family