wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Who am I? Figures of the Renaissance and Reformation

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This Renaissance figure was known for painting the beautiful Sistine Chapel & his most famous sculpture is The David.

a)
Petrarch
b)
Machiavelli
c)
Da Vinci
d)
Michelangelo
2.

This Italian writer wrote much advice for rulers in his book The Prince, including the very famous phrase that it is better to be feared than loved.

a)
Petrarch
b)
Machiavelli
c)
Da Vinci
d)
Michelangelo
3.

This painting, the Last Supper, is one of the most famous ones (along with the Mona Lisa) done by this artist and Renaissance Man.

a)

Paul Dipasquale

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Sandro Botticelli

d)

Leonardo di Caprio

4.

Who painted the Birth of Venus? This Italian artist painted many mythological and religious scenes.

a)

Sandro Botticelli

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Raphael

d)

Donatello

5.
Who invented the printing press?
a)
Martin Luther
b)

Thomas More

c)
Johann Gutenberg
d)

Fabricio Alvarado

6.

Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Cheaper book prices

b)

More books written in vernacular - language of the people

c)

Increase in church power

d)

Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas and encouragement of learning

7.
Who was the most important English playwright?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Leonardo da Vinci
c)
Niccolo Machiavelli
d)
King Richard I
8.

Who used his knowledge of classical languages to produce a new Greek edition of the Bible? He was a Christian humanist who also criticized the greed of the church.

a)
Erasmus
b)
Gutenberg
c)

de Pisan

d)
Durer
9.

Holbein, van Eyck, and Bruegel were all

a)

Italian humanists.

b)

northern Renaissance painters.

c)

northern Renaissance writers.

d)

best known for their engravings.

10.

The Northern Renaissance painter was known for including many scenes of life of peasants and regular people such as in his painting The Peasant Wedding.

a)

Raphael

b)

Jan van Ecyk

c)

Filippo Brunelleschi

d)

Pieter Bruegel

11.

She was a writer of the Northern Renaissance who wrote multiple books; her best-known, The Book of the City of Ladies, criticized the lack of educational opportunities for girls.

a)

Catherine de Medici

b)

Christine de Pisan

c)

Elizabeth I

d)

Artemisia Gentileschi

12.

This man began the Reformation when he nailed the 95 Theses, a complaint against indulgences and corruption, to the Wittenberg church door.

a)

Martin Luther

b)

King Henry VIII

c)

Thomas More

d)

Jan Hus

13.

This English man was an important figure of the Northern Renaissance and Reformation; he wrote the book Utopia which imagined a perfect society and it somewhat criticized the church. However, he remained Catholic and refused to swear an oath to his friend, King Henry VIII, as the head of the Church, so Henry VIII had him executed.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Erasmus

c)

Thomas More

d)

William Tyndale

14.

This man was a Spanish soldier who decided to start a group, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as "soldiers for Jesus" as part of the Counterreformation.

a)

Martin Luther

b)

Ignatius de Loyola

c)

Tomas de Torquemada

d)

Miguel de Cervantes

15.

This king decided to leave Catholicism and start a new religion with him as the head of his new church because the Pope wouldn't annul his marriage which led to the creation of the Anglican Church.

a)

King John

b)

King Henry II

c)

King Henry VIII

d)

King Francis II

16.

The School of Athens was painted by this Italian Renaissance painter.

a)

Donatello

b)

Raphael

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Fra Angelico

17.

This man is best known for writing his book Utopia about an imaginary perfect place; this book criticizes greed and corruption. (He was also painted by Holbein).

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

George Boleyn

d)

Thomas More

18.

This French queen was originally from a famous banking family in Florence and was influential during the French Religious Wars.

a)

Caterina Sforza

b)

Artemisia Gentileschi

c)

Catherine de Medici

d)

Lucrezia Borgia

19.

This painter is best known for The Arnolfini Wedding which shows his extreme level of realistic detail; he also invented new techniques for oil painting.

a)

Pieter Bruegel

b)

Albert Duhrer

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Pablo Picasso