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Renaissance quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was the heart of the Renaissance?

(a)  

2.

Leonardo da Vinci was a what?

a)

was a politician

b)

came from a wealthy family

c)

wrote grand romantic poetry

d)

was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor & mathematician

3.

Before the Reformation, Christian churches were ___________

a)

Jewish

b)

Muslim

c)

Roman Catholic

d)

None of the Above

4.

What did Luther say was the way to reach heaven?

a)

Salvation by faith alone

b)

Buying of indulgences

c)

Listening to "Stairway to Heaven" as loud as possible

d)

Nailing things on church doors

5.

What was an important effect of the invention of the printing press?

a)

Gutenberg used his wealth to support artists

b)

A shortage of trees

c)

An ink shortage

d)

It increased literacy and education across Europe

6.

Why did Luther disagree with the selling of indulgences?

a)

He believed they should cost more.

b)

He believed salvation was a gift of grace.

c)

He believed people had to work to earn salvation.

d)

He believed his 95 Theses could get people to Heaven.

7.

People who protested against the authority of the Catholic Church.

a)

Protestants

b)

Catholics

c)

Hindus

d)

Buddhists

8.

Martin Luther attacked the abuses of the Catholic church by:

a)

Nailing his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg

b)

Using his kung fu ninja skills

c)

Throwing water in the face of a priest

d)

Suing the Catholic church

9.

What's the name of the 95 arguments against the church posted on a church door by Martin Luther?

a)

95 Theses

b)

97 Argument

c)

92 Main Points

d)

90 Persuasive Ideas

10.

What is the name for the period of "rebirth" and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Reformation

c)

Humanism

d)

Patronage

11.

What is the Renaissance?

(a)  

12.

Sir Thomas More wrote the book of Utopia.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Linear perspective is a tool for realism.

a)

True

b)

false

14.

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

a)

true

b)

false

15.

Leonardo Da Vinci studied in human anatomy.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What does Renaissance mean?

a)

pretty

b)

rebirth

c)

sudden change

d)

death

17.

(a)   painted the Mona Lisa.

18.

One of Michelangelo's best works of art was the (a)   .

19.

Proportion is a way to unbalance parts of a design.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

(a)   refers to a series of comic episodes.

21.

(a)   is an art form which the artist etches a pattern on a metal plate with needles and acid.

22.

A (a)   is a poem with 14 lines that has a rhyming pattern.

23.

In the 1300s, Europeans learned that they could make paper out of (a)   .

24.

An (a)   is a kind of cancellation of sins.

25.

A (a)   is a subgroup of a major religious group.