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WorksheetsItalian Renaissance Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the growth of Northern Italian city-states in the 1350's?
40%-60% of the population was killed off during the Bubonic Plague.
Basic education was provided in most towns.
A decrease in wages led to people having more money to purchase goods.
There was a growing middle class of merchants, bankers, and artisans whom benefited from the Silk Road and the Crusades.
Define the underlined word: "The city-states of Italy were bustling centers of trade and commerce, which allowed people to gain wealth through trades such as manufacturing, banking and clothes-making.
These trades were government-protected jobs called guilds."*
*What Was the Social Structure of Florence During the Renaissance? by Staff Writer. Published in Reference.com
An association of knights and soldiers during the Renaissance.
The spoken language of an area. Oftentimes with a dialect or an accent.
An association of craftsman or artisans which united to protect their profession and keep wages high. Originated during the Middle Ages.
Choose the word for the following definition: Latin which was spoken by regular people and which eventually turned into the Romance languages of French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
Guild
Vernacular
Humanism
Which of the following was a family of Bankers, which ruled Florence during the Renaissance?
Borgia
Sforza
Medici
Este
Orsini
Which of the following philosophies was a result of people losing faith in institutions such as the Church and Medieval monarchs?
Humanism
Pessimism
Cubism
None of the above
'The Prince' is an example of this type of writing, which focused on subjects and throught WITHOUT the intervention of God.
Securalism
Vernacular
Guilds
Moralism
Although they did not have many rights as the men in their families, wealthy women like Bona Sforza and Lucrezia Borgia were patrons of painters, architects, adn other artists.
True
False
Which of the following works were NOT written in Vernacular language during the European Renaissance?
Jeffrey Chaucer's "The Cantebury Tales'
Dante Alighieri's 'The Divine Comedy'
Niccolo Machiavelli's 'The Prince.'
The original copy of the Bible.
Which of the following figures did not live during the Renaissance?
Lorenzo de Medici
Genghis Khan
Niccollo Machiavelli
Lucrezia Sfroza
Which of the following was not an Italian city-state which was ruled by a family, not by a monarch, and which flourished during the 14th- century?
Florence
Milan
Venice
The Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.
