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- 1. Multiple ChoiceA period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.RenaissanceHumanismartspatron
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A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.
Renaissance
Humanism
Arts
Patronage
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The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays such as King Lear and A midsummer night's dream.
William Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Leonardo de Vinci
Vasco de Gama
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The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.
Johann Gutenberg
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Man
Monarchy
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A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type.
printing press
printer
steam engine
ink printer
- 6. Multiple Choice
Sir Thomas More wrote the work
Paradise Lost
Gulliver's Travels
The Canterbury Tales
Utopia
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWilliam Shakespeare wrote only theatre plays.TrueFalse
- 8. Multiple Choice
Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?
New concepts on the universe and science
New trade routes and goods
Books printed in local vernaculars
New concepts on religion
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe Renaissance began inEnglandFranceItalyConstantinople
- 10. Multiple ChoiceAn Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.Florencecity-stateLeonardo Da VinciBrunelleschi
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar. One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.ShakespeareMichelangeloRaphaelPetrarch
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?Leonardo da VinciWilliam ShakespeareMiguel de CervantesDante Aligheri
- 13. Multiple ChoiceHow did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?by writing in Latinby creating the first newspapersby writing the Bibleby writing in the common lanugage
- 14. Multiple Choice
Spanish writer who wrote Don Quixote
Marco Polo
Martin Luther
Miguel de Cervantes
William Shakespear
- 15. Multiple Choice
Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient
Anglo-Saxon
Greek and Latin
Anglo-Norman
Old English
- 16. Multiple Choice
Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:
Cheaper book prices
More books written in vernacular - language of the people
Increase in church power
Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Renaissance eventually spread from Italy to the rest of Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries.
True
False
- 18. Multiple Choice
The English humanist and writer who wrote Utopia - a book that was about an ideal society where everyone was equal and free
Baldassare Castiglione
William Shakespeare
Pieter Brueghel
Thomas More
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance?
Society was dominated by the church.
Society began to value individualism.
Society was focused on warfare.
Society was dominated by lords.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?
Art
Education
Math
Literature
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