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24) How many Gutenberg Bibles still exist today?
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150
about 1,100
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22) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli shows which of these enduring issues?
Scarcity of materials
Impact of the environment on humans
Power
Impact of technology
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13) The Renaissance is a term that means...
Recover
Relinquish
reinvent
Rebirth
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10) Which did Machiavelli write?
The Divine Comedy
Romeo & Juliet
The Prince
The Praise of Folly
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9) How do you write the 14th - 17th century numerically?
1200 - 1500
1300 - 1600
1300 - 1700
1400 - 1700
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19) A renaissance man is known as...
A man who lived during the Italian renaissance
A man who is skilled in multiple areas of life
A man who was an experienced artist during the renaissance
A man who influenced culture through literature during the renaissance
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4) Cosimo de Medici exercised his power and patronage in which Italian city/state?
Florence
Venice
Milan
Rome
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3) Which of the following people are known to have started the Italian Renaissance?
Petrarch
Plato
Michelangelo
Dante
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21) The Italian and Northern Renaissance are similar in that...
Both developed new artistic techniques
Both praised individual achievement
All of these
Both sponsored artists
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20) Hamlet and Macbeth are plays written by which Renaissance scholar?
Petrarch
Plato
William Shakespeare
Desiderius Erasmus
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6) The vernacular is...
Worldly values separate from religion or spirituality
The first book mass produced from Gutenberg's printing press
The everyday language of people in a region or country
The most famous painting of Da Vinci
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8) The Renaissance lasted through which centuries?
12th - 15th
14th - 17th
15th - 18th
13th - 16th
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25) Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
All of these
Wealthy merchants supported artistic and literary advancements
It had thriving city-states such as Venice, Rome, Milan, and Florence
Scholars and artists drew inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman ideals
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17) Thomas More's idea of "Utopia" describes...
An ideal place to live
Purgatory
No place
The afterlife
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12) Why did artistic and literary ideas spread to northern Europe?
The printing press originated in Italy
War/invasion caused artists and scholars to seek a safer life
Italians were exiled to northern Europe
Trade cause the spread of ideas and knowledge
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5) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of humanism?
Individualism
Patronage
Secularism
Perspective
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14) Which social class were the wealthiest during the Italian Renaissance?
Tradesmen
Nobles
Artisans
Merchants
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11) Those who sponsored artists in the Northern Renaissance were...
Kings and Queens (monarchs)
Poets and Scholars
Tax payers
Wealthy merchants (patrons)
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2) Which of the following happened first?
The Northern Renaissance
The Printing Press is invented
The Bubonic Plague
The Italian Renaissance
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23) Gutenberg reinvented movable type because...
The machine was too large and immobile
It was too slow and inefficient
It mass produced books and documents at an alarming rate
Ink was scarce, so he used lead in his new invention
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16) Machiavelli believes that a strong political leader should be...
Loved
Feared
Hated
All of these
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15) Which humanist technique makes up 'perspective' in art?
Horizon line
All of these
Vanishing point
Depth
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1) Which artist created the Statue of David?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Donatello
Michelangelo
Both Donatello and Michelangelo
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7) Which is NOT a country that the Italian Renaissance spread to in northern Europe?
Flanders
England
Spain
France
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18) The Northern Renaissance used oil-based paints.
False
True
