Chapter 6 Test

Question 1

What does the word renaissance mean?

Answer 1

Rebirth or revival

Question 2

Where was the renaissance started and where did it spread to?

Answer 2

It started in Italy and spread north into Europe.

Question 3

The renaissance affected three things. What were they?

Answer 3

1. art
2. architecture
3. literature

Question 4

What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?

Answer 4

The movable type printing press

Question 5

What was so important about the movable type printing press?

Answer 5

It may distribution of books easier, and cheaper.

Question 6

What does the term anatomy mean?

Answer 6

The structure of humans, animals and plants

Question 7

Why did Artis want to learn about anatomy?

Answer 7

To make their art look more realistic

Question 8

What five things led to the Renaissance?

Answer 8

1. Rise of universities.
2. Rediscovery of Greek and Latin learning.
3. Scholars traveling to Europe.
4. Grows in the middle class and more people had money to buy books and art.
5. Works of art and literature, reflecting vernacular, which is the common spoken language.

Question 9

During the middle ages, people stressed, heavenly things. In the renaissance, what did they start to realize was more important to the creation of God.

Answer 9

Nature and people

Question 10

In art what does shading do?

Answer 10

It adds dimensions to drawings

Question 11

In in art, what does perspective do?

Answer 11

It shows distance by making closer things, bigger, and further things smaller

Question 12

What two things is Leonardo da Vinci most famously known for?

Answer 12

The Last Supper
The Mona Lisa

Question 13

What is Michelangelo most famous for?

Answer 13

The ceiling of the Sistine chapel in Rome. (he painted it while laying down.)

Question 14

What types of material did sculptures a used during the renaissance?

Answer 14

Stone or bronze

Question 15

In the middle ages, art was flat. What did it look like in the renaissance period?

Answer 15

It looked 3-D or freestanding

Question 16

In the middle ages architecture was in Gothic style. But during the renaissance, what did it resemble?

Answer 16

Greek and Roman style with rounded arches, columns and domes

Question 17

What did a “renaissance man” need to know how to do?

Answer 17

Read, write, and reason; they loved learning

Question 18

What is the study of humanities?

Answer 18

The study of human interests and experiences like literature, art history and speech

Question 19

Who is a great example of a “renaissance man”

Answer 19

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 20

Who is known as the father of humanism?

Answer 20

Petrarch

Question 21

Why was Petrarch known as the father of humanism?

Answer 21

He spread the ideas of renaissance and copied Roman and Latin styles of poetry in literature

Question 22

Who wrote a book on proper etiquette?

Answer 22

Castiglione

Question 23

What was Machiavelli critical of?

Answer 23

He was critical of leadership, following classical in biblical virtues, if it did not benefit them in their quest for power.

Is virtue helped a ruler he should use it if it did, it help him he should disregard it. His views moved away from religious tradition.

Question 24

What is Erasmus known for?

Answer 24

He was the first to publish a Greek New Testament, which was an important tool for the reformers

Question 25

Who wrote Utopia, a story of a Christian society in the philosophy of Play-Doh?

Answer 25

Sir Thomas Moore

Question 26

Why was the inquisition started by the church?

Answer 26

It was started as a response to so many people questioning the teachings of Rome in the 13th century

Question 27

What was the inquisition?

Answer 27

It was a church court set up to find and punish erratics. people were tortured to confess their wrong beliefs about God. It was meant to purge false doctrines, but drove people away from the church.

Question 28

What was Martin Luther known for?

Answer 28

He was a monk who challenged the Roman church, and began the reformation. Fought against sale of the Indulgences. Wrote the 95 Thesis.

Question 29

What was the Indulgences?

Answer 29

A paper that granted pardon from the punishment of sins

Question 30

Who pushed indulgences to earn money to finish Saint peters Basilica?

Answer 30

Pope Leo X

Question 31

What was John Wycliffe known for?

Answer 31

He was a pastor, teacher, and theologian who produced the first Bible in English later became the King James Version.

Question 32

What is John Huss known for?

Answer 32

He was a bohemian pastor, who spoke out against corruption, but was burned at the stake for his teaching.

Question 33

What did the Roman church threaten to do to Martin Luther?

Answer 33

They threatened him with excommunication, which means being kicked out of the church

Question 34

Who was Ulrich Zeingli?

Answer 34

Wrote his 67 conclusions after reading Luther’s 95 Thesis.

Question 35

Who were the anabatists? 

Answer 35

Those who baptized again, they rejected infant baptism. They wanted to be free of government control.

Question 36

What was John Calvin most known for?

Answer 36

He taught predestination, which is the doctrine, that no Center can come to God on his own. God chooses to give grace to the people of his choosing.

Question 37

What are the three central doctrines?

Answer 37

1. Scripture alone.
2. Faith, alone,
3. Priesthood of the believers 

Question 38

Who were the Huguenots?

Answer 38

French protestants that were persecuted and massacred in their homes

Question 39

What was the 30 years or?

Answer 39

When various European countries, battled for either Catholic or protestant causes