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Renaissance

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is associated with Humanism?
a)
the ideas of the middle ages
b)
the ideas of Greece & Rome
c)
the ideas of ancient China
d)
the ideas of ancient India
2.
Where did the Renaissance begin?
a)
Italy
b)
France
c)
England
d)
Germany
3.

Who invented the Printing Press?

a)

Gutenberg

b)

Erasmus

c)

More

4.

Which was NOT a characteristic of Renaissance art?

a)

More secular subjects than before

b)

More focus on perspective than before

c)

More realistic human figures than before

d)

More religious subjects than before

5.

The growth of which types of areas helped to spur on the Renaissance?

a)

Urban

b)

Rural

6.

A political, social, economic, and cultural "rebirth" from the 1300's to the 1500's C.E.

a)

Middle Ages

b)

Reformation

c)

Classical Era

d)

Renaissance

7.

Which is NOT an impact of the Gutenberg Press

a)

Books were cheaper

b)

Literacy rates increased

c)

People began to study the Bible for themselves

d)

Literacy rates decreased

8.

Who wrote Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth?

a)

Machiavelli

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Virgil

d)

Homer

9.

Intellectual movement that focused on human potential and studying subjects like rhetoric, history, poetry, and grammar.

a)

Humanism

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Classical Era

d)

Crusades

10.

Humanism

a)

Movement based on study of bible

b)

Movement based on study of humanities

c)

Movement based on study of literature

d)

Movement based on the study of dance

11.

Indulgence

a)

Giving into something that is tempting

b)

Eating your favorite food

c)

Something the Protestant church sold to sinners

d)

Release from all or part of punishment for sin

12.

Predestination

a)

Final destination on a trip

b)

Movement throughout the city of Venice to the border

c)

Idea that God has pre-determined who would be saved and who would not

d)

Idea that God has not control over where you go after death

13.

The Divine Comedy was one of the first books written in the vernacular instead of Latin. Who got in trouble for writing it?

a)

Medici

b)

Homer

c)

Dante Alighieri

d)

Catherine of Aragon

14.
Which of the following was NOT a pillar of the Renaissance?
a)
Individualism
b)
Humanism
c)

Feudalism

d)

Skepticism