Renaissance

Question 1

The famous “Mona Lisa” painting was completed by which famous artist?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 2

Which of the following was NOT an area of cultural advancement during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Agricultural technology

Question 3

What was one of the major impacts of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Marked the birth of the “modern world”.

Question 4

Which Renaissance writer focused on imaginative images of the afterlife?

Accepted Answer

Dante

Question 5

Who were the Trinity of Great Masters of the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo

Question 6

Which figure developed new banking techniques that greatly improved the banking system?

Accepted Answer

Lorenzo de Medici

Question 7

In which modern-day country did the Renaissance begin?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 8

Who was the most powerful family in Europe during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The Medici

Question 9

The Renaissance focused on secularism as a new concept. What does this term mean?

Accepted Answer

The focus on worldly themes instead of religious

Question 10

During the Renaissance, “patrons” were

Accepted Answer

Wealthy people who sponsored artists

Question 11

Who has been described as the perfect “Renaissance Man”?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 12

Which humanist scholar has been called “the first tourist” because of how often he traveled just for pleasure?

Accepted Answer

Petrarch

Question 13

Renaissance literally means a(n)

Accepted Answer

A “rebirth” of classical knowledge

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