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Renaissance Ch 1-3

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Renaissance a period of?

a)

Legislation requiring more learning

b)

Church promotion of learning

c)

Government promotion of the arts

d)

Rebirth of classical arts and culture

2.

During the Renaissance, what were the wealthiest and most influential members of Italian society called?

a)

Heretics

b)

Patricians

c)

Humanists

d)

Plebians

3.

What country did the Renaissance begin?

a)

France

b)

Netherlands

c)

Italy

d)

England

4.

What brilliant Renaissance man was a painter, scientist, and inventor who is famous for painting the Mona Lisa?

a)

Raphael

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Donatello

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

5.

What period of time occurred before the Renaissance?

a)

The Golden Age

b)

The Middle Ages

c)

The Greek Empire

d)

The Roman Empire

6.

How did artists afford to create their paintings or sculptures?

a)

Patrons funded their art

b)

The artists traded with other countries to raise funds for their art

c)

The artists traveled from city to city selling their art at trade shows

d)

The government provided funding for their art

7.

What is humanism?

a)

Trade that involved slaves

b)

The theory of humans having immortality

c)

The belief in the importance of humans

d)

A religion based on honoring humans

8.
A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Humanism
c)
arts
d)
patron
9.
 A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Humanism
c)
arts
d)
patron
10.

What governing family was known as the largest patrons of the arts produced in Florence, Italy?

a)

The Medicine family

b)

The Michelangelo family

c)

The Medici family

11.

What was an important influence fr Renaissance humanists?

a)

the River Valley Civilization cultures

b)

The Greek and Roman cutures

c)

The Manorial System

12.

Which statement describes a characteristic of the Renaissance in Europe?

a)

The social structure became very rigid

b)

rebirth of Greek and Roman culture and ideas

c)

The political structure was disorganized

d)

Humanism decreased in importance

13.

Which was the most powerful family in Florence?

a)

Medici

b)

Cervantes

c)

Arno

d)

Shakespeare

14.

Which is one of Leonardo's most famous paintings?

a)

Adoration of the Magi

b)

Mona Lisa

c)

The Prince

d)

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

15.

Who was Don Quixote?

a)

the author of a great Spanish Renaissance novel

b)

the fictional character who tries to imitate brave knights

c)

the real name of Miguel de Cervantes

d)

the real name of El Greco