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