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