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a #history quiz about the Renaissance
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1
True or false:
Leonardo da Vinci painted the
Mona Lisa
and
The Last Supper.
false
true
2
Where was the Medici bank located?
Turkey
Siena
Paris
Italy
3
Who wrote
The Canterbury Tales
?
Sir Thomas More
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas Beckett
4
Which Renaissance artist sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Michelangelo
Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
5
True or false:
The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy.
true
false
6
True or false:
The printing press was invented in Europe before the Renaissance.
true
false
7
Who challenged traditional Aristotelian ideas about the universe?
Galileo Galilei
Machiavelli
Thomas More
Petrarch
8
What time period was the predecessor of the Renaissance?
Dark Ages
Romantic Era
Middle Ages
Neolithic Era
9
What was Giovanni de Medici known as?
Godfather of the Renaissance
Holy Roman Emperor
God of Light
Renaissance Man
10
What is the belief that the sun is the center of the universe called?
negrocentric
geocentric
nucleocentric
heliocentrism
11
What ancient civilizations did the European Renaissance rebirth?
Mesopotamian and Roman
Greek and Roman
Mayan and Aztec
Persian and Greek
12
The Prince
was a treatise on government written by _____________.
Michealangelo
Mohammad
Machiavelli
Mansa Musa
13
In what time period did the Renaissance era occur?
14th - 17th century
11th - 13th century
16th - 18th century
19th - 20th century
14
Define Renaissance Man
an artist during the Renaissance
a multi-talented person
a talentless person
a person with one talent
15
True or false:
the Renaissance did not spread to other European countries
true
false
16
When did the Northern Renaissance begin?
before the Crusades
after the Enlightenment
before the Black Death
after the Italian Renaissance
17
Who is credited as the 'Father of the Italian Language'?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Giovanni Boccaccio
Petrarch
Dante Alighieri
18
What is the term used to describe a person who supports the arts?
vernacular
secular
noble
patron
19
What were some issues of the Renaissance era?
witch hunts
religious wars
the 13 Year War
the Black Death
20
What language does the word
renaissance
originate from and what does it mean?
French; rebirth
Italian; receive
German; remake
Spanish; recreate