WorksheetsRenaissance Humanism
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
What inspired the interest in learning during the Renaissance?
Scientific discoveries
Humanism
Technological advancements
Exploration
What did humanism place an emphasis on?
Economic growth
Individual dignity and interest in nature and human society
Military conquest
Religious authority
Who was one of the first humanists that searched for ancient Greek and Roman texts?
Leonardo da Vinci
Francesco Petrarch
Galileo Galilei
Michelangelo
What did humanists in the Renaissance begin to study in addition to classical history and poetry?
Art, architecture, government, and language
Mathematics and physics
Commerce and trade
Astrology and alchemy
What did humanists believe about people's ability?
People have the ability to control their own lives and achieve greatness
People are controlled by fate and have limited abilities
People should focus solely on religious salvation
People are best governed by strong leaders
What group of subjects did humanists stress the study of?
Natural sciences
Humanities
Political sciences
Engineering
What did Renaissance scientists begin to teach in universities?
Methods of observation and experimentation
The importance of religious doctrine
The art of war and strategy
Traditional medieval scholasticism
How did humanist ideals influence thoughts about government during the Renaissance?
Humanists promoted the idea that the Church should have absolute control over the state.
Humanists helped lay the foundation for modern thinking about politics and government by separating the state and its role from the Church.
Humanists believed that only the nobility should participate in government.
Humanists discouraged any form of government and promoted anarchy.
What was the Renaissance thinkers' view on individual achievement versus social status?
They believed that a person's class or family was more important than individual achievements.
They thought that peasants should always have less status than nobles.
They prized individual achievement more than a person's class or family.
They considered social status to be unchangeable regardless of individual achievements.
What was one of the conflicts between humanist ideas and the Catholic Church?
Humanists agreed with the Church that life after death was more important than life on Earth.
Humanists believed that people should not question the teachings of the Church.
Humanists thought that laws made by God should not be questioned and those who broke them were sinful.
Humanists believed that people should use their minds to question everything, which sometimes brought them into conflict with the Church.
What happened to the Italian humanist Giordano Bruno because of his ideas?
He was celebrated and given a position of power within the Church.
He was ignored and his ideas did not have any significant impact.
He was excommunicated but continued to live a peaceful life.
He was burned at the stake for his ideas.
When we say "Classical" works, what civilizations are being referred to?
The Chinese and Japanese
The Greeks and Romans
The Norse and the Dutch
The English and French
