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