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1
A person who donates/gives money to support the arts is called a ______.
patron
pope
altruist
donor
2
Who was the most famous Christian humanist?
Erasmus
Voltaire
Mirandola
Thomas More
3
What "Renaissance Man" painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?
Da Vinci
Donatello
Michelangelo
Raphael
4
What author became (and remains) extremely popular for writing plays about human emotion?
Petrarch
Shakespeare
Machiavelli
Erasmus
5
The "common tongue" or the local language that people speak in their everyday lives is called:
slang
the vernacular
Latin
the linguistic
6
The sculpture of a biblical hero that blends Christian and Greek ideas is ______ by _______.
Apollo, Phidias
David, Leonardo da Vinci
David, Michelangelo
Apollo, Donatello
7
Renaissance painters used this technique to make their art look more three-dimensional:
abstractions
perspective
chiaroscuro
frescoe
8
Which was NOT a consequence of Gutenberg's invention?
literacy rates rose across Europe
education became freely available for all people
new ideas began to spread rapidly throughout Europe
books were printed in higher numbers than ever before
9
Where did the Renaissance begin?
England
Spain
Italy
France
10
He was one of the most famous artists of the Northern Renaissance:
Palladio
Albrect Durer
Raphael
Botticelli
11
Who was a humanist writer of sonnets?
Erasmus
Petrarch
Martin Luther
Thomas More
12
Gutenberg improved upon what Chinese invention?
the coffee press
the printing press
the copy machine
the cylindrical press
13
The new intellectual movement that focused on human learning and achievement was called:
humanism
stoicism
impressionism
neoplatonism
14
Erasmus wrote
In Praise of Folly
mostly to:
criticize the Catholic Church
help his friend, Sir Thomas More
criticize King Henry VIII
make his readers laugh
15
What was Machiavelli's
The Prince
about?
politics/government/power
science/math/astronomy
truth/humanism/loyalty
beauty/art/truth
16
Sir Thomas More, a personal friend of both Erasmus and King Henry VIII, wrote a book called:
The Book of the Courtier
The Merits of Pluralism
Utopia
Lottery
17
All of the following were reasons the Renaissance began in Italy EXCEPT
Italy's geographic location on the Mediterranean Sea
Italians had always been more educated than other Europeans
The Crusades put Europeans in contact with the Middle East
The Italian city-states became very wealthy from trade
18
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Titian
Raphael
Da Vinci