The Renaissance

1. What people made up the middle class of the Renaissance times?

A) Slaves and servants
B) Earls and dukes
C) Merchants and craftsmen
D) Kings and queens
E) Farmers and peasants

2. What invention had a huge impact on the daily life of the people of the Renaissance?

A) Wheel
B) Train
C) Internet
D) Automobile
E) Printing press

3. What was the place in town where most of the shopping and trading was done during the Renaissance?

A) The shopping center
B) The Walmart
C) The mall
D) The grocery store
E) The market

4. Of the below people, who was most likely to go to school?

A) Merchant girl
B) Noble boy
C) Peasant boy
D) Servant boy
E) All of the above

5. A period from 1475 to 1525 where art became more realistic with a focus on perspective and space.

A) Early Renaissance
B) Mannerism
C) Reformation
D) Humanism
E) High Renaissance

6. A type of vocal music popular during the Renaissance. It typically had three to six voices singing different melodies that intertwined together.

A) Madrigal
B) Perspective
C) Landscape
D) Patron
E) Lute

7. An association of craftsmen or merchants. They controlled the quality of the work and provided training to new craftsmen.

A) Caravel
B) Guild
C) Lute
D) Apprentice
E) Fresco

8. A split in the Christian church where some people called Protestants left the Catholic Church to begin their own church.

A) Humanism
B) Mannerism
C) Renaissance
D) Reformation
E) Realism

9. Before the Renaissance, what was the primary subject of paintings during the Middle Ages?

A) Greek Mythology
B) Christianity
C) Animals
D) Kings and Queens
E) Landscapes

10. What were the characteristics of paintings and art during the Early Renaissance Period?

A) None of the above
B) All of the above
C) Abstract and flat
D) Symbolism and lack of perspective
E) Symmetry and perfect form

11. What was foreshortening?

A) A technique where artists shortened lines in their paintings to give the illusion of depth
B) When artists used shadow and light to make things appear more dramatic
C) An ingredient used when baking
D) A way of making people look taller than they really were
E) When artists painted people shorter than they really were

12. What was the idea or philosophy that changed the way people thought and, therefore, influenced art during the Renaissance?

A) Communism
B) Dadaism
C) Confucianism
D) Stoicism
E) Humanism

13. What invention by Johannes Gutenberg had a huge impact on how information could be shared throughout Europe?

A) The Telephone
B) Paper
C) The Telegraph
D) The Printing Press
E) The Internet

14. The science of astronomy had many breakthroughs during the Renaissance. What did astronomers study?

A) The ocean
B) Animals
C) The elements
D) The human body
E) The stars and outer space

15. What was the scientific method?

A) Using controlled experiments to prove a theory
B) A new way of organizing various forms of life
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
E) An invention like the telescope

16. What Renaissance scientist is considered the father of the scientific method?

A) Galileo
B) Kepler
C) Copernicus
D) Descartes
E) Leonardo DA Vinci

17. What Renaissance astronomer took many precise measurements of the planets over a long period of time and had Johannes Kepler as his student?

A) Aristotle
B) Ptolemy
C) Tycho Brahe
D) Galileo
E) Copernicus

18. What astronomer showed that the planets did not need to orbit the sun in a perfect circle?

A) Aristotle
B) Copernicus
C) Galileo
D) Johannes Kepler
E) Tycho Brahe

19. What did Galileo claim was the source of the light of the Moon?

A) It was from an energy source at the middle of the Moon
B) It was from fires lit by little green men
C) It was from glowing lichen that grows on the Moon
D) It was from still hot meteors that had crashed into the Moon
E) It was sunlight that was reflected off the surface of the

20. What did people think was the center of the universe for nearly 2000 years?

A) The Sun
B) The planet Jupiter
C) The North Star
D) The Earth
E) The Moon

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