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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?
Sforza
Albizzi
Medici
Borgia
3. Which member was the founder of that dynasty?
Giovanni
Catherine
Lorenzo
Cosimo
4. Who is often regarded as the "Father of Renaissance painting?"
Raphael
Donatello
Caravaggio
Giotto
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?
Jean Bodin
Michel de Montaigne
Antoine Lavoisier
Giordano Bruno
8. Which astronomer is known for his discovery of the three major laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Domenico Maria Novara
9. Which astronomer from Renaissance developed instruments that were used in measuring and fixing the position of stars?
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Isaac Newton
10. What did Filippo Brunelleschi spend most of his life designing and building?
St. Peter's Basilica
Sistine Chapel
Florence Cathedral
Parthenon
11. What sculptor was one of the pioneers of Renaissance art with sculptures such as the Gattamelata?
Caravaggio
Donatello
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
12. What artist is most known today for his frescos at the Sistine Chapel?
Jan van Eyck
Masaccio
Donatello
Michelangelo
13. Who painted the Last Supper?
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Giotto
Leonardo da Vinci
14. What artist worked for the Medici family in Florence and painted several portraits of them?
Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Masaccio
15. What priest wrote the book Praise and Folly and was responsible for spreading humanism throughout northern Europe?
Parecelsus
Benedict
Martin Luther
Erasmus
16. Which Italian sculptor created statues of David, Mary Magdalene and the Madonna?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Dante Alighieri
Donatello
Giotto
17. Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Marco Polo
Dante Alighieri
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
18. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Telescope
Printing press
Telephone
Light bulb
19. Martin Luther was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Where was he from?
France
Germany
England
United States
20. Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife?
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
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?
2
1
6
4
23. What country did both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Medici become queen of?
Spain
France
Austria
England
24. Which member of Borgia family was known as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 to 1503?
Giovanni Borgia
Rodrigo Borgia
Alfonso Borgia
Cesare Borgia
25. Borgia family are descendants of a noble line, originally from which Spanish city?
Valencia
Madrid
Malaga
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
Gioffre
Cesare
Lucrezia
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