The Renaissance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) Humanism
B) Reformation
C) Mannerism
D) High Renaissance
E) Early 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) Perspective
B) Madrigal
C) Lute
D) Landscape
E) Patron

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) Fresco
D) Apprentice
E) Lute

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What was foreshortening?

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

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

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

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

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

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 stars and outer space
E) The human body

15. What was the scientific method?

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

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

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

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) Galileo
C) Tycho Brahe
D) Copernicus
E) Ptolemy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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