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The Renaissance and The Scientific Revolution

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is one way European society changed thanks to the printing press?

a)

People quit the feudal system to find work else where

b)

People began reading books in their vernacular

c)

Literacy declined during the Renaissance

d)

People began writing scripts for movies

2.

How did Renaissance art differ from Medieval art?

a)

It was more godly

b)

It was more realistic, and had three dimensions

c)

it portrayed religious subjects

d)

it was more biblical

3.

What economic change occurred during the Renaissance that allowed for the flourishing of the art?

a)

Introduction of paper money

b)

People began to Barter again

c)

The Governments of Europe paid to educate Artists

d)

Growth of a wealthy Merchant Class that became patrons the Arts

4.

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

a)

Italians were better Catholics

b)

Italy had better means of transportation

c)

Italy sat in the middle of the Silk Road

d)

Extreme wealth that Italians made from trade

5.

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

a)
Renewed
b)
Rebuilt
c)
Remade
d)
Rebirth
6.

Which of these famous structures did Michelangelo paint?

a)

the Louvre

b)

the Coliseum

c)

the Sistine Chapel

d)

the Eiffel Tower

7.
The printing press was invented by
a)
Jan van Eyck.
b)
Johann Gutenberg.
c)
Peter Bruegel the Elder.
d)
Hans Holbein the Younger.
8.
What kind of person represented the ideal of the "Renaissance man"?
a)
someone who enjoyed worldly pleasures
b)
someone who excelled in many areas of study
c)
someone who specialized in a particular field of study
d)
someone who supported and appreciated the arts without creating art
9.
__________________ was a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.
a)
Indulgence
b)
Humanism
c)
Secular
d)
Perspective
10.

Petrarch's work was an example of typical Renaissance characteristics because he

a)

Studied poets and playwrights

b)

valued education and classical learning

c)

assembled manuscripts for churches

d)

revived an interest in medieval scholarship

11.

During Lorenzo's rule of Florence, in which years did he probably have more money to spend on the arts?

a)

1434-1469

b)

1469-1481

c)

1421-1429

d)

1397-1434

12.

What central idea that Erasmus strived to achieve is implicit in this quotation? "Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and --I shall boldly add--- all can be theologians." -- Erasmus

a)

to form a Protestant Church that is free from corrupt dictates of papal rule

b)

to form theocratic societies based on a simpler version of Christianity

c)

to promote the benefits of the printing revolution

d)

to make religion more accessible by translating the Bible into the vernacular

13.

Which term best defines the concept that the Earth is the center of the universe?

a)

Heliocentric

b)

Geocentric

c)

Eurocentric

d)

Egotistical

14.

Which term best defines the concept that the sun is the center of the universe?

a)

heliocentric

b)

geocentric

c)

ethnocentric

d)

Eurocentric

15.
The 6-step procedure based on observation and experimentation is called...  
a)
Planetary Model
b)
Philosophical Method
c)
Pavlov's Hierarchy of Needs
d)
the Scientific Method
16.

He was a polish mathematician and astronomer who was first to determine that the sun was the center of the solar system.

a)

Galilieo

b)

Humes

c)

Copernicus

d)

Descartes

17.

A German mathematician who was known for his laws of planetary motion in elliptical orbits around the sun.

a)

Leviticus

b)

Kepler

c)

Columbus

d)

Newton

18.

Who was the Italian physicist and astronomer who proved that objects of different weights, if dropped from the same height, fell at the same rate of speec. He was also responsible discovering the law of the pendulum.

a)

Galileo

b)

Vesalius

c)

Hooke

d)

Boyle

19.

Who was the English scientist who discovered the laws of gravitation?

a)

Galileo

b)

Newton

c)

Kepler

d)

Copernicus

20.

Who proposed a system of experimentation to find new truths through this type of scientific method?

a)

Newton

b)

Bacon

c)

Descartes

d)

Frisius

21.

How did scientists begin challenging authority during the Scientific Revolution?

a)

By careful observation of nature and willingness to question old beliefs

b)

By reading classic literature

c)

By collecting samples of plant life

d)

By forming new government ideas