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Galileo developed and improved on the inventions of the telescope and water thermometer.
True
False
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A major difference between Renaissance art and Medieval art is that Renaissance art showed
very little talent
only secular scenes
depth and emotion
flat surfaces
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What was the Renaissance?
a time of wars for independence
a time of achievements in art, literature, and learning
a time of increased religious faith
a time of rapid industrialization
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Name of the family that supported trade, banking, arts, and education in Renaissance Italy
Medicis
DaVincis
Donatellos
Guttenburgs
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What was one thing that helped spread the Renaissance beyond Italy?
Priests
Missionaries
Printing Press
Messenger birds
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During the Northern Renaissance, northern painters differed from Italian painters in their use of
chiaroscuro
fresco
oil
realism
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What did humanists believe?
God chose who should be king
all people have value and potential
People are basically selfish
people no longer need religion
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What political unit (government type) existed in Italy and helped the Renaissance develop?
an empire
feudalism
villages
city-states
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Which of the following were key elements of the Renaissance?
Printing
All of them
Humanism
Education
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What ideas did the Renaissance Art promote?
humanism, importance of man, human potential
Good intentions, loyalty, malaise
ability to make scrambled eggs, hepatitis b, icy poles
going against the church, wealth, beauty
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Which city was considered the cradle/center of the Renaissance?
Florence
Pompeii
Naples
Vatican City
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What was Francis Bacon's contribution to the Scientific Revolution?
Invented Bacon
Came up with the Heliocentric Universe
Came up with the Scientific Method
Invented the telescope
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Giotto was the father of...
Sculpting
Stain Glass
Painting
None of the above
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Who was Michelangelo?
He was a man who was the most famous in the Renaissance
He was a Renaissance painter and sculptor ect.
He was the owner of the Renaissance
He was a very wealthy man from the Renaissance
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What did Johannes Kepler discover?
Heliocentric model
Gravity
Geocentric model
Elliptical orbits
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Which of the following best describes the Renaissance?
an era during which religion was the primary focus
a time when people focused on art and the enjoyment of life
a period of strict social hierarchy
a time when people had a very closed view of things
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What type of society was Renaissance Italy?
Rural
Industrial
Urban
Italy
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The Italian monk, known by many as the father of humanism and the Italian renaissance.
Sandro Botticelli
Francesco Petrarch
Ferdinand Magellan
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Goffrey Chauccer
Dante Alghieri
Cristine de Pisan
Derek Jeter
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What groups gained power and wealth in the Renaissance?
merchants and bankers
lords and peasants
the church and lords
lords and students
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Where did the renaissance start?
italy
usa
greek
rome
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What is diplomacy?
existing or occurring within a particular country
the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way
None of the Above
control of an organization or group by a majority of its members
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who painted the school of Athens
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da vinci
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People during the renaissance became more:
secular
weird!
smart
cool
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Giotto is known for his frescoes, which are
tapestries
oil paintings
paintings on wet plaster
painting on dry plaster
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Who paid for the art and learning of the Renaissance?
patrons
only the Catholic Church
people who didn't have anything else to spend their money on
only kings and queens
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Which of the following helped cause the Renaissance?
all of these
City-states replaced the feudal system.
Classical ideas, lost since Rome fell, came back to Europe.
Trade brought new ideas, wealth, and a focus on human lives.
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perspective
glorify the human
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional
the way art lays on the canvas
the art of making art unrealistic
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Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
It's cold climate allowed the Italians to invent gelato.
It's location was best for trade w/ the Muslims & Byzantines
It's tall mountains protected it from the rest of Europe.
The Italians were the smartest Europeans.
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chiaroscuro means:
linear perspective with values added
the technique used for sculpture
technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as the
lines that create the illusion of 3D
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Renaissance means:
Equal
¨Rebirth¨
Pizza
Re-Start
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Robert Boyle discovered a law...
stating that once an object is in motion it stays in motion
stating that what goes up must come down
for gasses, when volume goes down, pressure goes up
for measuring temperatue
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everyday language Renaissance writers began to use to spread their ideas
accent
heresey
vernacular
dialect
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Tycho Brahe
Invented Jupiter
Recorded movement of the planets
Created the telescope
Created the scientific revolution
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Renaissance art depicted:
Modernism
Surrealism
Realism/life-like representations
Abstraction
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Why is Leonardo da Vinci considered the best example of a Renaissance man?
He was born during the Renaissance.
He was the first person to use the word Renaissance.
He was an inventor, sculptor, and painter.
He wrote tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
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What cultural ideas were "reborn" during the Renaissance?
French and English
Greek and Roman
a love for rap music
Islam
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How did art change during the Renaissance?
The subjects chosen were secular, classical, or Christian.
It was more realistic and produced new techniques.
Artists glorified the human body.
All of the above.
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What Renaissance text offers this passage: “It is much safer to be feared than loved”?
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron
Dante’s Inferno
Petrarch’s love sonnets to Laura
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
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During the Scientific Revolution, Copernicus proposed this idea that the sun was the center of the universe
heliocentric theory
geocentric theory
miasmatic theory
social contract theory
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Who is Chaucer?
The Archbishop that was murdered.
The translator of the story.
One of the characters in pilgrimage.
The author of the Canterbury Tales.
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This Northernmost city -state specialized in metal goods and armor during the Renaissance.
Rome, Italy
Milan, Italy
Florence, Italy
Venice, Italy
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When did the Renaissance begin?
1600"s
1100's
1800's
1300"s
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The emphasis on an individual‘s uniqueness/worth during the Renaissance is called:
Isolationism
Humanism
Nationalism
Manorism
