Quiz on Renaissance overview

#1 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Focused much more on realism as artists learned how to use perspective

The prince New monarchies Renaissance art Impacts of the printing press

#2 Which of the following definitions matches the term?

Petrarch

His death marked the start of the renaissance. He was called the father of humanism. A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court. Separation of church and state. Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.

#3 Which of the following definitions matches the term?

Secularism

The printing press helped spread the ideas of the renaissance. Separation of church and state. He wrote the famous “oration on the dignity of man”, the manifesto of the renaissance. Humans are free to become whatever they want New technology made war more expensive and it required large centralized governments to afford it. The monarch’s gained power and the nobility lost it.

#4 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

New military technology meant only centralized government could afford to go to war. Monarchs became more powerful, nobility lost power.

Impacts of the printing press Renaissance monarchies Castiglione Renaissance monarchies

#5 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

True

False

Section 1: Multiple Choice questions

Focused much more on realism as artists learned how to use perspective

Petrarch

Secularism

New military technology meant only centralized government could afford to go to war. Monarchs became more powerful, nobility lost power.

He wrote the famous “oration on the dignity of man”, the manifesto of the renaissance. Humans are free to become whatever they want

Section 2: True/false questions

The prince

Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.

Humanism

A focus on the human body and human achievements.

Beliefs on education in the renaissance

A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.

Impacts of the printing press

A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.

Leonardo Bruni

First to coin the term “humanism”. First to divide history into 3 parts.

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