The Renaissance

Question 1

Which Italian city-state was built on the water, home to Marco Polo and grew wealthy in trade?

Accepted Answer

Venice

Question 2

What innovation in art was used during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Perspective

Question 3

Who sculpted the statue of David, the Pieta and painted the Sistine Chapel?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 4

What is the belief that man can answer questions in the world?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 5

Who is the Italian with the political philosophy "the end justifies the mean"?

Accepted Answer

Machiavelli

Question 6

What city is considered the birthplace of Western culture?

Accepted Answer

Florence

Question 7

What astronomer developed the telescope?

Accepted Answer

Gallileo

Question 8

Who is the English playwright that wrote Romeo and Juliet?

Accepted Answer

Shakespeare

Question 9

What is the northern Italian home of Christopher Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Genoa

Question 10

The difference between the Renaisssance and the Middle Ages is all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Religious Themes Only

Question 11

Leonardo da Vinci did all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Architect

Question 12

Who is the Polish astronomer that was the first to have the heliocentric theory?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 13

What is NOT a reason the Renaissance began in Italy?

Accepted Answer

Poor economy

Question 14

Michelangelo is famous for all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

The Mona Lisa

Question 15

Who painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vince

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