1.In what country did the Renaissance begin?

a.Italy
b.France
c.England
d.Germany

2.who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance?

a.greek and austrian
b.roman and french
c.roman and greek
d.french and greek

3.the word renaissance means

a.the rebirth of learning or knowledge
b.reading of books
c.the time of astronauts
d.the study of art

4.Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art?

a.realism
b.perspective
c.individualism
d.abstractioin


5.what sparked the Renaissance?

a.The Feudal system was collapsing
b.the "95 theses"
c.the Crusades
d.the Black Plague

6.who lost the most power during the renaissance?

a.Italian merchants
b.catholic church
c.black people
d.king and queen of Spain


7.Utopia was written by:
a) Cervantes
b) Machiavelli
c) Poliziano
d) Thomas More

8.The Prince was written to gain favor of the:
a) Pazzi
b) Republic
c) Medici
d) Inquisition

9.Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time?

a) Poliziano
b) Cervantes
c) Martin Luther
d) Alexander VI

10.The "father of humanism" was

a)Petrarch
b)Dante
c)Boccaccio
d)Pico della Mirandola


11.Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated

a)just the same as men
b)with emphasis on science and mathematics
c)not at all
d)confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting


12.An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on

a)alchemy and magic
b)the literature of Greece and Rome
c)chivalry of the Middle Ages
d)the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

13.Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance?

a)emphasis on individuality
b)confidence in human rationality
c)the emergence of merchant oligarchies
d)the development of social insurance programs


14.The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance

a)growth of religious activity among common people
b)earlier occurrence
c)greater appreciation of pagan writers
d)decline in the use of Latin


15.For ordinary women, the Renaissance

a)had very little impact
b)greatly improved the material conditions of their lives
c)worsened their social status
d)allowed them access to education for the first time


16.Thomas More's Utopia placed the blame for society's problems on

a)human nature
b)God's will
c)society itself
d)the Church


1)a
2)c
3)a
4)d
5)a
6)b
7)d
8)c
9)c
10)a
11)d
12)b
13)d
14)a
15)a
16)c