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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What was the Renaissance a period of?
Legislation requiring more learning
Church promotion of learning
Government promotion of the arts
Rebirth of classical arts and culture
During the Renaissance, what were the wealthiest and most influential members of Italian society called?
Heretics
Patricians
Humanists
Plebians
What caused the Renaissance to start?
More people could read and write
The printing press was more available
Italian sea ports traded goods as well as new ideas
All of the above
What country did the Renaissance begin?
France
Netherlands
Italy
England
What brilliant Renaissance man was a painter, scientist, and inventor who is famous for painting the Mona Lisa?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
What mathematician formulated the model that Earth revolves around the Sun?
Claudius Ptolemy
Aristotle
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
What period of time occurred before the Renaissance?
The Golden Age
The Middle Ages
The Greek Empire
The Roman Empire
What English poet and playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet," "Macbeth," and "Hamlet"?
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare
Henry David Thoreau
What Italian explorer hoped to find a western passage to India, but instead discovered Central America?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco de Balboa
Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
What Italian philosopher created a new branch of political science based on humanist principals, where human interests are the priority?
Niccolo Machiavelli
John Locke
Thomas More
Pico della Mirandola
Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the invention of the printing press?
Books became cheaper
People gained access to new ideas
Books were only given to priests
None of the above
What Italian mathematician created one of the first modern telescopes and supported the idea that the Earth went around the Sun?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Claudius Ptolemy
Isaac Newton
When did the Renaissance take place?
9th-11th century
11th-15th century
12th-16th century
14th-17th century
Which of the following best explains why the Renaissance occurred in northern Europe later than it did in Italy?
The Black Death delayed economic growth in northern Europe
Few people were educated in northern Europe
There was little interest in the arts
Northern Europeans resisted change
What made paintings during the Renaissance different from art from other periods of time?
They were symbolic, not realistic
Subjects were painted as they appeared in nature
They were very abstract
All of the above
In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start?
Naples
Milan
Rome
Florence
What Italian architect, painter, poet, and engineer sculpted the statue of David?
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
How was Italy divided up during the start of the Renaissance?
Counties
Provinces
Kingdoms
City-states
What Italian painter was asked by Pope Julius II to work on rooms in the Vatican?
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
