Renaissance Quiz

Question 1

What is the simple definition of Renaissance?

Answer 1

Rebirth

Question 2

What is the more complex definition of Renaissance?

Answer 2

A period of European History from the 13th century to the 15th century.

Question 3

What word means putting humans in place or above God?

Answer 3

Humanism

Question 4

What was the goal of learning?

Answer 4

develop well-rounded individuals=main goal “Renaissance Man”

Question 5

What were the different humanities you studied?

Answer 5

“liberal arts”, history, science, grammar, classical literature, rhetoric, philosophy, art, music

Question 6

Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance? and why was it?

Answer 6

Italy, and because it had control of the trade routes.

Question 7

Who were the financial sponsors of the arts and artists (Church) and the middle class?

Answer 7

Patrons

Question 8

Who was the richest family?

Answer 8

Medici

Question 9

What was the most important invention of the last 1000 years and who invented it?

Answer 9

Printing Press, Gutenburg

Question 10

Who was the father of humanism?

Answer 10

Petrarch

Question 11

Who wrote “The Prince” and worked in politics and was cunning and sly?

Answer 11

Machiavelli

Question 12

What means “Im going to do whatever works”?

Answer 12

Pragmatism

Question 13

Who made the latin translation of the Greek New Testament?

Answer 13

Erasmus

Question 14

Who was the english author of “Utopia”?

Answer 14

Thomas Moore

Question 15

Who wrote Don Quixote and was the Spanish satirist of medieval ideas?

Answer 15

Cervantes

Question 16

Who represents the height of Renaissance literature?

Answer 16

Shakespeare

Question 17

What did art in the Renaissance emphasize?

Answer 17

physical, present world, and nature

Question 18

How did the artists change from the Middle Ages?

Answer 18

They went from being anonymous to putting their names on their works.

Question 19

How did the look of art change?

Answer 19

It went from flat and 2D to realistic, 3D and shading

Question 20

Why did people create art in the Renaissance?

Answer 20

For money $$$

Question 21

Who was the father of Renaissance painting and who introduced the painting style of Fresco?

Answer 21

Giotto

Question 22

What does Fresco mean?

Answer 22

Paintings on wet plaster

Question 23

Who made the last supper and the Mona Lisa and was a “true” Renaissance man?

Answer 23

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 24

What were the characteristics of a “true” renaissance man?

Answer 24

sculptor, architect, painter, studied anatomy, botany, geology, astronomy, engineering, math, and music

Question 25

Who made the Sistine Chapel?

Answer 25

Michelangelo

Question 26

Who was known as the Leonardo of the North and known for his wood carving and mass production?

Answer 26

Albrecht Duver

Question 27

How did architecture change?

Answer 27

From cathedrals to palaces and villas

Question 28

What were the positives of the Renaissance?

Answer 28

Provoked a spirit of inquiry, revived intrests in literature and languages of antiquity, moveable type printing made books accessible to everyone, and education became more widely available and in demand, stressed importance of individual

Question 29

Negatives of Renaissance

Answer 29

changed emphasis from religious to secular, emphasized material, present world of eternal=greater visible MORAL CORRUPTION, increased nationalism, left humans philosophically empty as did the ancients, ALL LEADING TO REFORMATION