thumbnail

Renaissance

A period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Quiz by Nenadbs
Rate:
Last updated: August 27, 2022
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
First submittedFebruary 8, 2021
Times taken560
Average score46.2%
Report this quizReport
6:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1. In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start?
Florence
Rome
Venice
Milan
2. What family ruled the city throughout the Renaissance?
Albizzi
Sforza
Medici
Borgia
3. Which member was the founder of that dynasty?
Lorenzo
Catherine
Giovanni
Cosimo
4. Who is often regarded as the "Father of Renaissance painting?"
Caravaggio
Donatello
Giotto
Raphael
5. What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions?
Studies of the Body
The Renaissance Man
The Vitruvian Man
Salvator Mundi
6. Who is often called the "Father of Humanism?"
Francesco Petrarch
Dante Alighieri
Leonardo da Vinci
Giotto
7. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Michel de Montaigne
Antoine Lavoisier
Giordano Bruno
Jean Bodin
8. Which astronomer is known for his discovery of the three major laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Domenico Maria Novara
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
9. Which astronomer from Renaissance developed instruments that were used in measuring and fixing the position of stars?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
10. What did Filippo Brunelleschi spend most of his life designing and building?
Florence Cathedral
Sistine Chapel
Parthenon
St. Peter's Basilica
11. What sculptor was one of the pioneers of Renaissance art with sculptures such as the Gattamelata?
Caravaggio
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
12. What artist is most known today for his frescos at the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Jan van Eyck
Donatello
Masaccio
13. Who painted the Last Supper?
Giotto
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Sandro Botticelli
14. What artist worked for the Medici family in Florence and painted several portraits of them?
Sandro Botticelli
Masaccio
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
15. What priest wrote the book Praise and Folly and was responsible for spreading humanism throughout northern Europe?
Benedict
Parecelsus
Martin Luther
Erasmus
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?
Dante Alighieri
Marco Polo
Giovanni Boccaccio
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
18. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Light bulb
Telephone
Printing press
Telescope
19. Martin Luther was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Where was he from?
Germany
France
United States
England
20. Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife?
The Divine Comedy
The Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
Caedmon's Hymn
21. How did the Medici family become wealthy?
Selling weapons
Banking and wool
Farming land
Selling art
22. How many popes came from the Medici family?
1
4
2
6
23. What country did both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Medici become queen of?
France
England
Austria
Spain
24. Which member of Borgia family was known as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 to 1503?
Alfonso Borgia
Giovanni Borgia
Cesare Borgia
Rodrigo Borgia
25. Borgia family are descendants of a noble line, originally from which Spanish city?
Valencia
Malaga
Madrid
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
Comments
No comments yet