Deck 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe

Question 1

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet often speaks _________, or private reflections spoken aloud toward the audience but not toward the other characters.

A) arias
B) cantatas
C) soliloquies
D) dialogues
E) monologues

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Thomas Morley favored __________ in which a single melody is employed with harmonic support.

A) disputations
B) homophonic texture
C) motets
D) oratorios
E) sonnets

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The __________ has two extraordinary features: a town on the roof that is complete with winding streets, squares, and turrets; and an interior double-spiral staircase built with a circle of 30 feet in diameter whose spiral staircases intertwine but do not meet.

A) Hardwick Hall
B) House of Jacques Coeur
C) Château of Chambord
D) Fontainebleau Palace
E) Château of Chenonceaux

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Flemish painter, __________ is best known for his half-man, half-animal creatures.

A) Robert Campin
B) Jan van Eyck
C) Hieronymus Bosch
D) Peter Bruegel the Elder
E) Peter Paul Rubens

Question 5

Madrigals are often about __________.

A) heaven and hell
B) love and frivolity
C) redemption and salvation
D) etiquette and social mores
E) pestilence and flood

Question 6

The scholar and Christian humanist __________ refused to support King Henry VIII's split with the Roman Church.

A) Philip II
B) Thomas More
C) Charles V
D) Mary of Hungary
E) Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 7

The central panel in Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece depicts the __________.

A) Resurrection
B) Creator
C) salvation and redemption of humankind
D) Temptation
E) Annunciation

Question 8

Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece is an example of the __________ medium.

A) egg tempera
B) oil
C) acrylic
D) fresco
E) intaglio

Question 9

Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is a __________.

A) fresco
B) polyptych
C) diptych
D) triptych
E) none of the above

Question 10

One of the most virulent attacks on religious objects occurred in England where King Henry VIII ordered the destruction of monasteries in 1535.His systematic destruction of architecture associated with religion is an example of __________.

A) patriotism
B) iconoclasm
C) etching
D) both A and B
E) none of the above

Question 11

__________ proposed the scientific method.

A) Francis Bacon
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Newton
E) Kepler

Question 12

The __________ is a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer.

A) Adam and Eve
B) Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
C) A Young Hare
D) Self-Portrait
E) both A and B

Question 13

The hay in Hieronymous Bosch's Hay Wain symbolizes __________.

A) heaven
B) youth
C) material possessions
D) pleasures of the flesh
E) the wheel of fate

Question 14

__________ wrote Ninety-five Theses, which became a rallying cry for the Reformation, in the form of a disputation or debate.

A) Desiderius Erasmus
B) Martin Luther
C) John Calvin
D) John Milton
E) Sir Thomas More

Question 15

Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece is the earliest example in which the Annunciation was depicted as taking place in a __________.

A) home
B) church
C) holy realm
D) stable
E) outhouse

Question 16

Pieter Bruegel was most concerned with __________.

A) the peasant class
B) landscapes
C) the ruling class
D) self-portraits
E) flowers

Question 17

__________ created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess that displays Elizabeth's love of learning by representing books.

A) Levina Bening Teerling
B) Hans Holbein the Younger
C) Caterina van Hemessen
D) Lucas Cranach
E) all of the above

Question 18

__________ are an examples of the secular music that became increasingly popular in the Renaissance and which are characterized by lyrics written in the vernacular.

A) Gregorian chants
B) Soliloquies
C) Madrigals
D) Mystery plays
E) both A and B

Question 19

The theme of earthly __________ is(are) the focus of the central panel of Bosch's triptych Garden of Earthly Delights.

A) ignorance
B) possessions
C) betrayal
D) pleasures of the flesh
E) mind

Question 20

Although it has long been assumed that the viewer is witnessing a marriage in Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami , recent arguments suggest, however, that it is a(n) __________.

A) courtship
B) engagement
C) annulment
D) divorce
E) baptism

Question 21

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a __________.

A) comedy
B) history
C) tragedy
D) romance
E) mystery

Question 22

The development of the printing press greatly facilitated the spread of the Reformation during
this era.

Question 23

The humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is best known for his rejection of all elements of classical civilization.

Question 24

Blank verse refers to rhyming couple, each line of which has fourteen syllables.

Question 25

Why was Bruges such an important city at the beginning of the fifteenth century?

Question 26

Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing.

Question 27

What practices of the Catholic Church did Martin Luther object to, and what did he do about
his objections?

Question 28

Iconoclasm is the systematic celebration of religious icons.

Question 29

Why are so many of Bosch's works now in the Prado Museum in Madrid?

Question 30

A disputation was part of the learning process at Universities and refers to debates held weekly between Faculty and students.

Question 31

__________ was the most important satirical work of the Renaissance.

A) Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
B) William Shakespeare's Hamlet
C) Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography
D) John Calvin's Institutes
E) Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

Question 32

William Shakespeare's command of the English language is particularly evident in his soliloquies.

Question 33

The Essays written by __________ are a stunning example of Renaissance individualism grounded in humanism.

A) Erasmus
B) Martin Luther
C) Montaigne
D) William Shakespeare
E) Kit Marlowe

Question 34

The argument that rather than revolving around the earth, the earth and the other planets orbit the sun, was put forth by __________.

A) Galileo
B) Newton
C) Pasteur
D) Bacon
E) Copernicus

Question 35

Define "disguised symbolism" and examine its use in Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece .

Question 36

A madrigal is a vocal composition for a small group of singers, usually without accompaniment.

Question 37

What is the relationship between Hieronymous Bosch's Hay Wain and Flemish proverbs?

Question 38

The "age of discovery" is so called because of such men as Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Nicolas Copernicus.

Question 39

The Northern Renaissance painters favored egg tempera over the newly developing oil medium.

Question 40

How is Erasmus a good example of the devotee of humanism in the Northern Renaissance epoch?

Question 41

What features does the drama of the Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) share with that of ancient Greece and which Shakespearean play serves as an excellent example?
Essay

Question 42

Summarize the accomplishments of scientists and explorers of this epoch.

Question 43

What typifies secular music during the Renaissance? Give an example of a typical form of secular music.

Question 44

Select one work of art that dates prior to the Reformation, one object that dates after the Reformation, and one text to examine the effects of the Reformation on the culture of the Northern Renaissance.

Question 45

Examine the issue of disguised symbolism in the work of Northern Renaissance artists by examining at least three works, including literature that uses a high degree of allusion to make its point.

Question 46

Compare and contrast the Southern and Northern Renaissance through a close examination of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.Caterina van Hemessen's Portrait of a Lady, Petrarch's Sonnet 159, and Louise Labe's Sonnet 18.

Question 47

Define "iconoclasm" and present two examples of its use during this era.