Deck 21: The Late European Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Question 1

Thomas Moore's Utopia was somewhat controversial because it

A) proposed a society based on communal living.
B) advocated the overthrow of the prevailing political system.
C) stressed the responsibility of individuals to improve the societies in which they lived; the problem was with society, not the individual sinner.
D) flew in the face of what humanists believed, since he laid the source of sin squarely at Adam's feet.
E) radically altered the thinking of many "commoners" toward their government, encouraging them to question authority

Answer 1

stressed the responsibility of individuals to improve the societies in which they lived; the problem was with society, not the individual sinner.

Question 2

What role did religion play in the Renaissance?

Answer 2

Answers would include a discussion of religious buildings,religious art,Michelangelo's Creation of Adam,and fact that art in both North and South had religious elements.

Question 3

Which of these was not a dominant Renaissance value?

A) individualism
B) secularism
C) democracy
D) classicism
E) humanism

Answer 3

democracy

Question 4

Compare and contrast the Renaissance in the North and South of Italy.

Question 5

Erasmus had a tremendous impact on and his works were directed toward

A) the Protestant Church.
B) the government.
C) literary style.
D) Christian reformers.
E) all of the options are correct

Question 6

The Renaissance was

A) more secular and anticlerical in northern Europe.
B) mainly a phenomenon affecting a relatively small number of urban residents.
C) a movement given its name by people who experienced it directly.
D) begun in northern Europe.
E) a direct precursor of the Protestant Revolution.

Question 7

The Italian Renaissance is best known for

A) the translation of the classics into Italian.
B) its emphasis on self-realization for individuals.
C) the religious changes that resulted from the work of religious scholars.
D) the rejection of Christianity.
E) its contribution to the thinking of Desiderius Erasmus.

Question 8

Russia differed from the other European powers during the 1600s in that

A) the rulers kept no standing army.
B) the people had not been exposed to Renaissance ideas.
C) the country had given up all pretense of being "European."
D) the Mongols still ruled parts of the Russian lands.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 9

How did the Renaissance affect political issues?

Question 10

Secularism would most strongly emphasize

A) spiritual renewal through education.
B) overcoming original sin.
C) poverty and self-denial as universal values.
D) this life as a time of opportunity.
E) a need to prepare for the afterlife.

Question 11

The Italian city-states of the Renaissance were

A) workers' democracies with much freedom.
B) princely oligarchies run despotically.
C) constitutional monarchies led by a king.
D) theocracies led by the church.
E) parliamentary republics with little true representation.

Question 12

Elaborate on the significant art,literature,and architecture of the Renaissance.

Question 13

How did the lower classes rise up and gain some power in the Late Medieval Period?

Question 14

In comparison to the Renaissance in Italy,that of northern Europe was

A) more materialistic.
B) culturally inferior.
C) artistically inferior.
D) less pagan.
E) less serious.

Question 15

The signing of the Magna Carta by England's John the First in the 13?? century had led to

A) English monarchs' acceptance that their powers were limited and they too were bound to the laws.
B) helped establish a more centralized monarchy.
C) led directly to the War of the Roses.
D) contributed to the country's losses in the Hundred Years' War.
E) finally placed some minimal restraints on the unruly nobles.

Question 16

In Praise of Folly,Erasmus called for

A) political reform.
B) religious reform.
C) educational change.
D) the use of vernacular literature.
E) more emphasis on simple values.

Question 17

The War of the Roses was waged over

A) who should succeed to the English throne.
B) the need for reforms within the Church.
C) French and English attempts to control Germany.
D) Parliament's rights and prerogatives.
E) Russia's claims to own Europe.

Question 18

The main role models for Renaissance humanists were

A) John Wyclif and Jon Hus.
B) Old Testament Hebrews.
C) Classical Greco-Romans.
D) Muslim philosophers.
E) ancient Egyptians.

Question 19

Explain why the Renaissance began in Italy.

Question 20

The early humanist scholars were dedicated to

A) helping people achieve their full potential.
B) reconciling faith and human reason.
C) increasing literacy so that individuals would have access to the classics.
D) building workable utopian societies.
E) reawakening individuals to their duties to others, and the reformation of the Christian church.

Question 21

According to secularists,____________________ was the measure of what life had to offer.

Question 22

The primary architectural style of the Renaissance was the adaptation of

A) Italian urban areas.
B) classical temples.
C) eleventh century churches.
D) French classicism.
E) Gothic cathedrals.

Question 23

As a force in German politics,the Holy Roman Emperor could most accurately be described as

A) commander-in-chief of the army.
B) almost equal to the Tsar.
C) head of a powerful bureaucracy.
D) a leader with little power who was elected.
E) a hereditary ruler with hereditary rights.

Question 24

Middle class Renaissance women most likely

A) took care of household business only when husbands were away on business themselves.
B) ran their households without ever consulting their husbands.
C) fought, to no avail, against the patriarchal society in which they lived.
D) worked as equals with their husbands in city businesses.
E) Both B and C.

Question 25

The Doors of Paradise are made of

A) steel.
B) bronze.
C) marble.
D) granite.
E) copper.

Question 26

Which of the following would most accurately describe upper class life during the Renaissance?

A) Young women often married middle-aged widowers.
B) Men for the first time began to marry in their twenties.
C) Well-to-do couples began to limit the number of children they raised.
D) Marriage to a wealthy widow was viewed as a positive move for a young man.
E) Dowries were expected for all young women who lived in cities.

Question 27

The theory of the state in Renaissance thinking carried all of the following elements EXCEPT

A) Legitimacy.
B) Sovereignty.
C) Oligarchy.
D) Territory.
E) Democracy.

Question 28

Niccolo Machiavelli in his book The Prince focused on European governments

A) in an idealized way.
B) in terms of the Bible.
C) from the perspective of the monarch.
D) as they were in reality.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 29

The leader in architecture and sculpture during the Renaissance was

A) Erasmus.
B) Michelangelo.
C) De Vinci.
D) Giotto.
E) Botticelli.

Question 30

During the Renaissance,the term "divine spark" became associated with

A) artists.
B) patrons of the arts.
C) the clergy.
D) newly converted Christians.
E) princes.

Question 31

The guilds of late Middle Age Europe benefitted which of the following?

A) monarchs
B) nobility
C) new urban apprentices
D) established master artisans
E) journeymen

Question 32

A common problem for late Middle Age European monarchs were

A) powerful and wealthy nobility.
B) wealthy merchants.
C) lax law enforcement.
D) peasant rebellions.
E) political legitimacy.

Question 33

The best-known Northern humanist,author of Praise of Folly,was ____________________.

Question 34

A revolutionary development of Renaissance painting was

A) the development of large frescoes.
B) the use of oil paints.
C) the mastery of perspective.
D) realistic portraiture.
E) using oil paints on large frescoes.

Question 35

The unifying design of the Habsburgs in Germany was ultimately frustrated by

A) economic depression.
B) Catholic-Protestant divisions.
C) Papal opposition.
D) Russian attacks.
E) military occupation by Prussia.

Question 36

European artistic and cultural interests began to focus on the ancient civilizations of ____________________ and ____________________ during the Renaissance.

Question 37

Thomas Moore's satire on human society and government was entitled ____________________.

Question 38

The greatest examples of the northern Renaissance in art were the

A) Flemish portraitists.
B) French sculptors.
C) Italian artists.
D) Dutch impressionists.
E) Italian architects.

Question 39

A new element in Renaissance Italian city-state politics was

A) the preference for using fear rather than piety as a basis of government.
B) a professional army of mercenaries.
C) an absolute monarchy.
D) the organization of a taxation agency.
E) the concept of a secular state that existed independently of both ruler and ruled.

Question 40

Which of the following best describes Renaissance art?

A) Traditional
B) Experimental
C) Modern
D) Gothic
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 41

____________________ was the most significant of the 15?? century English kings and founder of the Tudor Dynasty.

Question 42

Evidence of the relative decline in status for women includes their being accused of ____________________.

Question 43

In part,____________________ designed the architecture for St.Peter's Cathedral in Rome.

Question 44

In Renaissance Europe,a young woman without a suitable ____________________ was unmarriageable.

Question 45

A serf could runaway and be made free if he lived in a town and stayed out of trouble for a ____________________ and a day.

Question 46

In 1480,Russia regained its freedom from the rule of the ____________________.