WorksheetsRenaissance Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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1.
What does the word, patron, mean?
a)
the broad educational, literary, and cultural movement involving the studia humanitatis
b)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
c)
a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
2.
What does the word, Humanism, mean?
a)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
b)
A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
c)
The 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events
3.
What does the word, secular, mean?
a)
technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain
b)
the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion
c)
of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
4.
What does the word, Classical, mean?
a)
a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
b)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language
c)
of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
5.
What does the word, perspective, mean?
a)
the broad educational, literary, and cultural movement involving the studia humanitatis
b)
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
c)
a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
6.
What does the word, Renaissance, mean?
a)
a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom
b)
a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
c)
the 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events
7.
What is a Renaissance man?
a)
a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
b)
a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
c)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
8.
What does the word, vernacular, mean?
a)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
b)
a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
c)
of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
9.
What is a Printing press?
a)
originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
b)
machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink
c)
The native language or native dialect of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national, or standard variety of the language.
10.
What is a Wood Block?
a)
originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
b)
a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas
c)
machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink
11.
What is a cartography?
a)
the science and art of making maps or graphical representations showing spatial concepts at various scales
b)
machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink
c)
of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
12.
Who was Leonardo di Vinci?
a)
sculptor, painter and architect
b)
Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist
c)
A German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press
13.
Who was Johann Gutenberg
a)
A German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press
b)
Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist
c)
renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
14.
Who was William Shakespeare?
a)
renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
b)
A German Printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press
c)
sculptor, painter and architect
15.
Who was Michelangelo?
a)
Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist
b)
sculptor, painter and architect
c)
renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
16.
Who was the Borgia's family?
a)
an Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany
b)
sculptor, painter and architect
c)
descendants of a noble line, originally from Valencia, Spain, that established roots in Italy and became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s
17.
Who was the Medici Family?
a)
an Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany
b)
descendants of a noble line, originally from Valencia, Spain, that established roots in Italy and became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s
c)
renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
18.
What was the Elizabethan Age?
a)
the science and art of making maps or graphical representations showing spatial concepts at various scales
b)
the English history of Queen Elizabeth I's reign
c)
originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
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