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The Renaissance - Quiz
Contributed by: Moreno
  • 1. What people made up the middle class of the Renaissance times?
A) Farmers and peasants
B) Earls and dukes
C) Merchants and craftsmen
D) Kings and queens
E) Slaves and servants
  • 2. What invention had a huge impact on the daily life of the people of the Renaissance?
A) Automobile
B) Internet
C) Wheel
D) Printing press
E) Train
  • 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 market
C) The grocery store
D) The Walmart
E) The mall
  • 4. Of the below people, who was most likely to go to school?
A) Servant boy
B) All of the above
C) Peasant boy
D) Merchant girl
E) Noble boy
  • 5. A period from 1475 to 1525 where art became more realistic with a focus on perspective and space.
A) High Renaissance
B) Early Renaissance
C) Mannerism
D) Reformation
E) Humanism
  • 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) 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) Fresco
B) Caravel
C) Guild
D) Lute
E) Apprentice
  • 8. A split in the Christian church where some people called Protestants left the Catholic Church to begin their own church.
A) Realism
B) Humanism
C) Renaissance
D) Mannerism
E) Reformation
  • 9. Before the Renaissance, what was the primary subject of paintings during the Middle Ages?
A) Kings and Queens
B) Christianity
C) Greek Mythology
D) Landscapes
E) Animals
  • 10. What were the characteristics of paintings and art during the Early Renaissance Period?
A) Symbolism and lack of perspective
B) All of the above
C) Abstract and flat
D) None of the above
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) An ingredient used when baking
C) When artists used shadow and light to make things appear more dramatic
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) Humanism
B) Dadaism
C) Communism
D) Stoicism
E) Confucianism
  • 13. What invention by Johannes Gutenberg had a huge impact on how information could be shared throughout Europe?
A) The Telephone
B) The Printing Press
C) The Telegraph
D) The Internet
E) Paper
  • 14. The science of astronomy had many breakthroughs during the Renaissance. What did astronomers study?
A) Animals
B) The elements
C) The stars and outer space
D) The human body
E) The ocean
  • 15. What was the scientific method?
A) An invention like the telescope
B) None of the above
C) Using controlled experiments to prove a theory
D) All of the above
E) A new way of organizing various forms of life
  • 16. What Renaissance scientist is considered the father of the scientific method?
A) Galileo
B) Leonardo DA Vinci
C) Copernicus
D) Kepler
E) Descartes
  • 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) Copernicus
B) Galileo
C) Tycho Brahe
D) Aristotle
E) Ptolemy
  • 18. What astronomer showed that the planets did not need to orbit the sun in a perfect circle?
A) Aristotle
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Tycho Brahe
E) Johannes Kepler
  • 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 sunlight that was reflected off the surface of the
C) It was from fires lit by little green men
D) It was from glowing lichen that grows on the Moon
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 Moon
B) The Sun
C) The North Star
D) The Earth
E) The planet Jupiter
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