The Renaissance

Question 1

What did Leonardo da Vinci study and invent?

Accepted Answer

He studied mechanics and drew designs of flying machines

Question 2

What happened after Dante's Divine Comedy came out?

Accepted Answer

It was hated and Dante was banned from his home

Question 3

What country did the Renaissance start in?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 4

What did the Mona Lisa start off as?

Accepted Answer

A portrait that a merchant had wanted of his wife

Question 5

Which of these was not part of Renaissance art techniques?

Accepted Answer

Religious references

Question 6

True or False: Renaissance music was either instrumental or about religion?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

What was the main religion of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 8

Which of these does not describe or relate to the turtle ship?

Accepted Answer

Extremely tall

Question 9

What was reborn during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Old classical ideas

Question 10

What role did the printing press play in the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

It made it easier to spread information to other places, It made it easier to educate, making more people literate

Question 11

Select the Renaissance art technique

Accepted Answer

Studying what they're depicting to see how it works, Linear perspective and geometry, Advancing old techniques, Light and shadows

Question 12

Humanists believed that we __________

Accepted Answer

Make mistakes but are generally good

Question 13

True or False: Later, Leonardo da Vinci saw the Mona Lisa as more important, and had hopes for it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What did Renaissance art focus on?

Accepted Answer

People doing real activities

Question 15

The Renaissance...

Accepted Answer

Began in the 14th century, Ended around the 17th century

Question 16

What was William Shakespear's "All the World's a Stage" about?

Accepted Answer

It was about making sense of the different stages of life through theater

Question 17

Humanists believed that we should ___________

Accepted Answer

Receive educations

Question 18

Which of these was not from the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 19

Which of these best describes Dante's Divine Comedy?

Accepted Answer

A poem with Renaissance ideas like scholasticism and more non-Christian art

Question 20

What is a fresco painting?

Accepted Answer

A painting on a wall that becomes part of the building's decorations

Question 21

True or False: More thought that a perfect world could exist

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

True or False: "All the World's a Stage" relates to humanism by trying to understand life, not saying "because God."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which of these is not a factor that started the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The Mongols

Question 24

How did the printing press work?

Accepted Answer

Wood blocks with carved letters were covered in ink and pressed onto paper

Question 25

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 26

Leonardo da Vinci wanted to paint _______ painting(s).

Accepted Answer

a perfect

Question 27

Why did More write "Utopia?"

Accepted Answer

To show that the government wasn't fair, but can't ever be perfect

Question 28

Which best describes Leonardo da Vinci's background and childhood?

Accepted Answer

He grew up on a farm and had a lot of freedom in his choices

Question 29

What was More's piece, "Utopia," about?

Accepted Answer

The perfect world, and what it would be like

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