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1.Renaissance Means _________

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Renaissance -Rebirth

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  1. Revival of learning classical literature between ____ and ____ century.
    a) 13C - 15C
    b) 14C - 16 C
    c) 15C - 17C
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b)14C- 16C

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3.Renaissance developed
Spirit of ________,
Spirit of ________ of thoughts,
________.

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Spirit of Inquiry, Spirit of Freedom of thoughts and action.

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  1. Men developed critical attitude twords __________ institutions.
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Medieval institutions

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  1. What are the ideas that we’re revolutionized ?
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Social, political and religious.

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  1. According to professor Jeb

Renaissance was ?

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Process of transition in Europe from medieval to modern period.

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  1. For a history student Renaissance means

Reigne of F________, C_______ and birth of new social conditions.

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Renaissance was

Reigne of feudalism, chivalry and birth of new social confions. - History student

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  1. Who called the Renaissance

“A complex and many-sided movement” ?

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Walter Peter

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  1. Renaissance to a student of religion it means ?
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Evolution of Reformation and

Counter Reformation

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  1. To a student of Art and Literature

“The recovery of Masterpiece from ________ world; Received knowledge of ________ and _______”

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The recovery of Masterpiece from

Ancient world and Received knowledge of Greek and Latin.

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  1. Printing press was invented in the year _______
    a) 1400
    b) 1440
    c) 1454
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b)1440

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12 .Printing press was invented by
________ Gutenberg (Europe - Germany)
a) 1454 b) 1456
c) 1457 c) 1458

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a) 1454

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  1. First Latin Bible was printed in the year _______ at maniz in Germany.
    a) 1454 b) 1457
    c) 1455 d) 1456
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c) 1455 (Latin Bible- maniz in Germany )

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  1. Printing press reached ITALY in
    ________
    a) 1467 b) 1465
    b) 1468. c) 1470
A

Italy printing press - b)1465

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  1. Printing press reached SPAIN in ?
    a) 1465 b) 1467
    c) 1470 d) 1474
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Spain - 1474

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  1. Printing press in FRANCE
    a) 1467 b) 1470
    c) 1473 d) 1476
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France - 1470

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  1. Printing press in FRANCE
    a) 1467 b) 1470
    c) 1473 d) 1476
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France - 1470

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  1. Printing press in Austria and Netherlands
    a) 1471 b) 1472
    c) 1473 c) 1474
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Austria and Netherlands - 1473

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  1. Printing Press in Switzerland
    ______
    a) 1466 b) 1467
    c) 1468. d) 1469
A

Printing press in Switzerland

1467

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  1. Printing press in England was established by William _______
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William Caxton

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  1. Printing press was established in England at _______
    a) 1474. b) 1476
    c) 1478. d) 1480
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England printing press - 1476

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  1. Printing press in Oxford came in year_____
    a) 1477 b) 1478
    c) 1479 d) 1480
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Oxford printing press - 1478

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  1. Printing press in St. Albans in
    _____
    a) 1477 b) 1478
    c) 1479 d) 1480
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Printing press in St. Albans 1479

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  1. Printing press in london introduced in the year_______
    a) 1477 b) 1478
    c) 1479 d) 1480
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London printing press 1480

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25 .Renaissance study of classical in their original but also a
Age of _______________.

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Age of translation

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  1. Virgil, ovid, Cicero, Demosthenes and Plutarch works were _________in English.
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Translated in English

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  1. Virgil was a famous Roman poet of __________ period.
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Augustan period

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  1. Virgil wrote three famous poems
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Those were Eclogues, Georgics, Epic Aeneid.

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  1. The first part of Chapman’s Homer

Appeared in ______

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1598

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30.Chapman’s Homer was a sonnet written by English Romantic poet

A

John Donne

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  1. The first part of Chapman’s Homer was Translated by
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George Chapman

31
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  1. Translations works enabled the _________ and ________ literates to share knowledge of _________ literature.
A

Non-Latin and Greek.

32
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  1. Shakespeare who knew little of _______ and less ______ became familiar with Classical _________ due to Translation works.
A

Little of Latin and less of Greek.

Classical mythology

33
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34.Who heralded Renaissance in England________

A

Chaucer

34
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  1. The three ________ friends prepared the ground for study of classical literature.
  2. Thomas _________.
  3. William ________.
  4. Hugh ________.
A

Oxford.
Thomas Linacre.
William Grocyn.
Hugh Latimer.

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36.Renaissance said to be began in

England by ________________

A

Sir Thomas More

36
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37.Thomas Moore famous work “Utopia” is a greek word meaning “________” was written in _______.

A

Utopia- No where

Written in Latin

37
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38.Utopia was first published in the year _______

A

Utopia- 1516

38
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  1. The Translation of Utopia was published in _______
A

Translation of Utopia - 1551

39
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  1. The translation of Utopia In English was done by

Ralph _________ and Gilbert ______.

A

Ralph Robinson and Gilbert Burnet.

40
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  1. Utopia 2nd revised edition of translation was published in
A

1556.

41
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  1. VIRGIL, O_I_ and C_C_R_ were Roman authors.
A

Virgil, Ovid and Cicero.

42
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  1. E_L_G_E_ , G_O_ G _ C _ and E _ I _ AENEID was written by Virgil.
A

Eclogues, Georgics and Epic Aeneid.

42
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  1. E_L_G_E_ , G_O_ G _ C _ and E _ I _ AENEID was written by Virgil.
A

Eclogues, Georgics and Epic Aeneid.

43
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  1. The contemporary a friend of Thomas more was __________ a Dutchman by birth settled in England.
A

Erasmus

44
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  1. Erasmus was ______ European writer who wrote in _______.
A

Last European writer who wrote in Latin

45
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  1. Erasmus Most famous work was “______ of the folly”
A

Praise

46
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  1. Erasmus new testament contained parallel coloumn of ______ text and new ______ rendering of his own.
A

New testament parallel columns of Greek and new Latin rendering of his own.

47
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  1. Edmund Spenser was the author of first great Epic ____________.
A

Faerie queen.

48
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  1. Who was the representative poet of English Renaissance ?
A

Spenser

49
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  1. Who was the father of English tragedy ?
A

Christopher Marlowe.

50
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  1. Who was considered genius of Renaissance ?
A

William Shakespeare.

51
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  1. Shakespeare was born in ______
A

1564

52
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  1. Father of English essay was ?
A

Francis bacon

53
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  1. Educational ideals during Renaissance underwent ________.
A

Great change.

54
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  1. Middle age system education was divided into ____________ and __________
A

For clergy , for perfect and gentle knight.

55
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  1. As those system of education become inadequate to meet demands of _______ world.
A

Morden world - new education system was devised.

56
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  1. Chief educational Experiment conductors were Com________, Rebel___, Mon_______.
A

Comenius, Rabelais and Montaigne.

57
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  1. Capture of Constantinople in Italy by ________
A

Turks

58
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  1. Mariners compass invention aided discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in ________
A

1492

59
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  1. Vasco da Gama teacher west of India (Calicut) through cape of good hope in _______
A

1498

60
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  1. Who set exploration through Pacific ocean in 1519 ? And reached Philippines were he was killed.
A

Magellan

61
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  1. Magellan lieutenant Sebastian del cano returned to Spain ________ having completed the great feats of history circumnavigation of the world.
A

1522

62
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  1. According to Ptolemy of Egypt Earth was ?
A

Centre of the universe.

63
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  1. In the middle of 16 century who discovered sun was the centre of the universe ?
A

Copernicus of Holland.

64
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  1. Who followed Copernicus footsteps and revealed solar system in it’s main features as we knew today ?
A

Kepler and Galileo

65
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  1. In where was Reformation started and by whom ?
A

By Martin Luther in Germany.

66
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  1. Martin Luther translated old and new testament into _______
A

Germany

67
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  1. Who gave the English rendering for the translation made by Erasmus?
A

William Tindale

68
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  1. Reformation had a disintegrated influence on ___________________
A

Church of England

69
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  1. To resolve Reformation disintegrated movement as an antidote ______________ was started
A

Counter Reformation

70
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  1. Counter Reformation founding “________ of Jesus “ by ________ of Loyola in _________
A

“Society of Jesus” by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540.

71
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  1. The outcome of Renaissance in religion was _______ of church Raised ________.
A

Renaissance outcome -

Split of church Raised protestent.

72
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the allrounders of art were and literature? (Sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry)

A

Michealangleo, Raphel, Leonardo de venci.

73
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Michaelangelo ( Italian artist) as a sculptor were famous for

A
  • Statue of David (1501 - 1504),
  • Moses (Moses is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.),
  • Pieta( The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. 1498–1499)
74
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Michaelangelo as a painter?

A

Painted the ceiling of Sistine chapel between 1508 and 1512

75
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Raphael painted many magnificent pictures including

A

madonnas were magnificent.

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