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Renaissance

A period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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1. In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start?
Venice ✓
Florence ✓
Rome ✓
Milan ✓
2. What family ruled the city throughout the Renaissance?
Albizzi ✓
Borgia ✓
Sforza ✓
Medici ✓
3. Which member was the founder of that dynasty?
Lorenzo ✓
Catherine ✓
Giovanni ✓
Cosimo ✓
4. Who is often regarded as the "Father of Renaissance painting?"
Raphael ✓
Donatello ✓
Giotto ✓
Caravaggio ✓
5. What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions?
The Renaissance Man ✓
Studies of the Body ✓
Salvator Mundi ✓
The Vitruvian Man ✓
6. Who is often called the "Father of Humanism?"
Francesco Petrarch ✓
Giotto ✓
Dante Alighieri ✓
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
7. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Giordano Bruno ✓
Jean Bodin ✓
Antoine Lavoisier ✓
Michel de Montaigne ✓
8. Which astronomer is known for his discovery of the three major laws of planetary motion?
Galileo Galilei ✓
Domenico Maria Novara ✓
Tycho Brahe ✓
Johannes Kepler ✓
9. Which astronomer from Renaissance developed instruments that were used in measuring and fixing the position of stars?
Tycho Brahe ✓
Nicolaus Copernicus ✓
Isaac Newton ✓
Johannes Kepler ✓
10. What did Filippo Brunelleschi spend most of his life designing and building?
Parthenon ✓
Florence Cathedral ✓
Sistine Chapel ✓
St. Peter's Basilica ✓
11. What sculptor was one of the pioneers of Renaissance art with sculptures such as the Gattamelata?
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Caravaggio ✓
Donatello ✓
Sandro Botticelli ✓
12. What artist is most known today for his frescos at the Sistine Chapel?
Masaccio ✓
Jan van Eyck ✓
Donatello ✓
Michelangelo ✓
13. Who painted the Last Supper?
Michelangelo ✓
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Sandro Botticelli ✓
Giotto ✓
14. What artist worked for the Medici family in Florence and painted several portraits of them?
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Raphael ✓
Sandro Botticelli ✓
Masaccio ✓
15. What priest wrote the book Praise and Folly and was responsible for spreading humanism throughout northern Europe?
Parecelsus ✓
Erasmus ✓
Martin Luther ✓
Benedict ✓
16. Which Italian sculptor created statues of David, Mary Magdalene and the Madonna?
Giovanni Boccaccio ✓
Dante Alighieri ✓
Giotto ✓
Donatello ✓
17. Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?
Ambrogio Lorenzetti ✓
Dante Alighieri ✓
Giovanni Boccaccio ✓
Marco Polo ✓
18. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Light bulb ✓
Telephone ✓
Telescope ✓
Printing press ✓
19. Martin Luther was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Where was he from?
France ✓
Germany ✓
United States ✓
England ✓
20. Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife?
The Divine Comedy ✓
Caedmon's Hymn ✓
The Canterbury Tales ✓
The Decameron ✓
21. How did the Medici family become wealthy?
Banking and wool ✓
Farming land ✓
Selling weapons ✓
Selling art ✓
22. How many popes came from the Medici family?
2 ✓
6 ✓
1 ✓
4 ✓
23. What country did both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Medici become queen of?
Spain ✓
England ✓
France ✓
Austria ✓
24. Which member of Borgia family was known as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 to 1503?
Alfonso Borgia ✓
Giovanni Borgia ✓
Rodrigo Borgia ✓
Cesare Borgia ✓
25. Borgia family are descendants of a noble line, originally from which Spanish city?
Malaga ✓
Barcelona ✓
Valencia ✓
Madrid ✓
26. Which child of Rodrigo Borgia and Vanozza dei Cattanei became a cardinal and was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli?
Giovanni ✓
Lucrezia ✓
Cesare ✓
Gioffre ✓
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