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Northern Renaissance Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When we refer to the NORTHERN Renaissance, what countries are included? Check ALL that apply.

a)

England

b)

China

c)

Germany

d)

France

e)

Italy

2.

Which of the following influenced spread of Renaissance ideas from Italy to Northern Europe?

a)

Trade

b)

Movement of artists/scholars

c)

Development of printing

d)

All of the above

3.

This organization protected ships from pirates, built lighthouses and made it easier to trade goods throughout Europe

a)

North American Fair Trade Agreement

b)

Hanseatic League

c)

National Football League

d)

European Union

4.

Italian artists fled north due to _____ between city-states and brought _________ ideas with them

a)

wars, religious

b)

peace, humanist

c)

peace, religious

d)

wars, humanist

5.

Northern Renaissance artists travelled to ______ for ______ and brought their ideas back home with them

a)

China, trade

b)

Italy, education

c)

Ireland, potatoes

d)

United States, education

6.

This guy popularized the movable type in Germany during the 1400s, making it much easier to print written works

a)

Johannes Gutenberg

b)

Erasmus

c)

Sir Thomas More

d)

Jan van Eyk

7.

The printing press is important because

a)

It allowed books to be printed much faster and cheaper

b)

Books became available to more people

c)

More people learned to read and ideas spread quicker

d)

All of the above

8.

This man created "Christian Humanism", and wrote about a pure Christian life without politics & rituals of the church

a)

Pieter Brughel

b)

Erasmus

c)

Albrecht Durer

d)

William Shakespeare

9.

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, which is...

a)

a book that criticizes English government & society

b)

creates an idea of a what a perfect society looks like (even though it doesn’t exist)

c)

Both

d)

Neither

10.

Shakespeare was an English playwright who.. Check all that apply

a)

Wrote many plays that touched on humanist and scientific topics, a big change from topics in the past

b)

Focused on the lives of realistic characters and expressed human nature

c)

Wrote many plays that touched on only religious topics

d)

wrote plays that were extremely popular among people of all social classes

11.

Christine de Pisan wrote about...

a)

gender equality for women

b)

love and heartbreak

c)

religious themes praising God

d)

Roman and Greek classic mythology

12.

Northern Renaissance Artists...

a)

had less focus on beauty and Greek/Roman influence

b)

depicted people more realistically than their Italian counterparts

c)

oil painting was the main style

d)

all of the above