Deck 12: Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Question 1

How is the development of printing in the fifteenth century best described?

A)It pertained predominantly to secular works, as theological works were still done by hand.
B)It saw the invention of movable type by Nicholas Fabian.
C)It ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society.

Answer 1

It ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about family life in Renaissance Italy is true?

A)Those with same surname did not often live near one another.
B)The importance of the family helps explain the policy of retaliation involved in the vendetta.
C)The family bond was generally considered unimportant.

Answer 2

The importance of the family helps explain the policy of retaliation involved in the vendetta.

Question 3

What result did the Peace of Lodi attempt to achieve?

A)To limit the sexual scandals that plagued the papal court
B)To keep Naples from interfering in northern Italian affairs
C)To maintain peace between the Italian states for 40 years

Answer 3

To maintain peace between the Italian states for 40 years

Question 4

In the late fifteenth century, Italy became a battleground for the competing interests of the rulers of which states?

A)France and England
B)England and Spain
C)Spain and France

Question 5

Which of the following statements BEST describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?

A)Young men asked women for their hand in marriage, after a lengthy courtship.
B)Husbands were generally the same age as their spouses.
C)Marriages were usually arranged to strengthen familial alliances.

Question 6

How is slavery in Renaissance Italy best described?

A)It reached its height in the early sixteenth century because of the end of European wars.
B)It mostly dealt in African and Eastern European slaves for courtly domestic servants and as skilled workers.
C)It disappeared entirely by the early fifteenth century, thanks to the Reformation.

Question 7

Western Europe in the Renaissance experienced which of the following changes?

A)A decline in serfdom
B)A decline in centralized royal government
C)A reduction in urban trade networks

Question 8

What did Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man state about humans?

A)They were fallen creatures but regain their place by following God's will.
B)They could be whatever they chose or willed.
C)They were divine and destined to spiritual life.

Question 9

What was Humanism's main effect on the writing of history?

A)A stress on God's influence on human events
B)The secularization of the writing of history and the explanation of change over time
C)Anti-Christian attacks on medieval historians

Question 10

How is the Italian Renaissance best described?

A)It was a mass movement of the peasants.
B)It was characterized by a preoccupation with religion.
C)It was a recovery of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.

Question 11

What does Machiavelli's The Prince argue is imperative for successful rulers to do?

A)Strive to earn the love of his people.
B)Follow Christian principles in all his endeavors.
C)Act without scruples for the good of the state.

Question 12

How is the liberal education taught by Vittorino da Feltre best described?

A)It contained as its primary goal the creation of well-rounded, virtuous, and ethical citizens.
B)It was for all segments of society, rich and poor.
C)It advocated concentration on science and research, not rhetoric and verbal skills.

Question 13

The First Estate is made up of people concerned mostly with what?

A)Church teachings
B)Land rents
C)Agricultural production

Question 14

Which ancient writer was considered by civic humanists as their model?

A)Aristotle
B)Plato
C)Cicero

Question 15

How is the Third Estate of the fifteenth century best described?

A)Overwhelmingly made up of peasants
B)Essentially free from the manorial system, especially in eastern Europe
C)Relatively free from violence and disease in urban areas

Question 16

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

A)Rebirth
B)New world
C)Maturation

Question 17

How are Renaissance humanists in Italy best described?

A)They restricted their attention to scholasticism and the medieval liberal arts curriculum.
B)They had occupations in schools and universities or as secretaries in city-states or at the courts of princes or popes.
C)They tended to be members of the clergy rather than laymen.

Question 18

Who was Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino?

A)An example of a skilled, intelligent, independent Italian warrior prince
B)An outspoken advocate of Italian unification
C)A callous, disloyal prince, loathed by the papacy

Question 19

Johannes Gutenberg was a key developer of which innovation?

A)The water wheel
B)A vernacular translation of the Bible
C)The movable type printing press

Question 20

In Concerning Character, Pietro Paolo Vergerio argued that liberal studies led to which of the following?

A)True freedom
B)The rise of the peasant
C)Insights into nature

Question 21

The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by whom?

A)Ottoman Turks
B)Persians
C)Seljuk Turks

Question 22

The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from which activity?

A)Trade
B)Slavery
C)Agriculture

Question 23

Which pair of artists sculpted a likeness of David?

A)Donatello and da Vinci
B)Donatello and Michelangelo
C)Michelangelo and da Vinci

Question 24

Which of the following was one of the foremost preoccupations of Italian Renaissance art?

A)The elimination of religious images in painting and sculpture
B)The realistic portrayal of the human nude
C)To reject the trend of realism and emphasize abstract artistic forms

Question 25

Describe the Third Estate.

Question 26

John Wyclif criticized the Church for which policy?

A)Wasting money on expensive cathedrals
B)Discriminating against women
C)Not letting people read the Bible in the vernacular

Question 27

Why did finance develop so much during the Renaissance?

Question 28

Which policy did the "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth-century Europe adopt?

A)They continued the trend toward decentralization.
B)They were focused upon the acquisition and expansion of power.
C)They attempted to build up the nobility for support.

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT true of Northern Renaissance artists?

A)They had less mastery of the laws of perspective than many Italian painters.
B)They valued the secular human form as the primary subject of painting.
C)There was an emphasis on illuminated manuscripts and wooden panel painting.

Question 30

How did men's and women's lives in the Renaissance differ?

Question 31

What was the significance of the Hanseatic League?

Question 32

How was the rediscovery of classic literature possible?

Question 33

After 1438, the position of the Holy Roman Emperor remained in whose hands?

A)The Habsburg dynasty
B)The Medici family
C)The pope

Question 34

According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented which of the following?

A)The greatest period of economic recovery in the history of civilization
B)A distinct break from the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world
C)An era of tremendous graft and corruption in Italian government

Question 35

All of the following monarchs were successful in continuing the centralization of their "new monarchies" EXCEPT who?

A)Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire
B)Henry VII of England
C)Ferdinand of Aragon in Spain

Question 36

Who was the painter of the Rome's Sistine Chapel ceiling?

A)Raphael
B)da Vinci
C)Michelangelo

Question 37

How did this period come to be called the 'Renaissance'?

Question 38

How is the Renaissance papacy best described?

A)It was exemplified by the "Spartan" and humble existence of Leo X.
B)It saw popes build legal familial dynasties over several generations to maintain power.
C)It was often seen as corrupt and debauched, as evidenced by Alexander VI.

Question 39

Who painted The Last Supper?

A)da Vinci
B)Michelangelo
C)Caravaggio

Question 40

The Renaissance popes did all EXCEPT which of the following?

A)Patronize Renaissance culture
B)Participate in temporal authority at the expense of their spiritual responsibilities
C)Attempt to return to the papacy to more humble times

Question 41

How did economic recovery lead to social change? What significance did these changes have for different groups?

Question 42

Was the Renaissance in Italy mostly political or mostly artistic? Why?

Question 43

What are the key ideas of humanism?

Question 44

Which came first, the development of new financial or banking practices or the rise of trade via the Venetians or the Hanseatic League? How were they related?

Question 45

The commercial and military association known as the Hansa or Hanseatic League was created by whom?

A)The Italian republics
B)The kingdom of France
C)North German coastal towns

Question 46

Describe the "new monarchy" in England, and how was it different from previous monarchies.

Question 47

What effect did advances in paper-making have on the spread of humanism?

Question 48

Describe Machiavelli's key ideas about politics.

Question 49

What was achieved at the Council of Constance?

Question 50

What role did Petrarch play in the Renaissance?

Question 51

Why to scholars think of humanism as an "elite" movement?

Question 52

What was John Wyclif's position toward the church? Why?

Question 53

Describe the contributions of the Florentine painters to the Renaissance movement.

Question 54

Describe the "new monarchy" in France, and how was it different from previous monarchies?

Question 55

Describe the contributions of the northern Europeans to the Renaissance.

Question 56

How did the Italian city-states support the Renaissance?

Question 57

Which family of merchants and bankers dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance?

A)Gonzaga
B)Medici
C)Sforza

Question 58

What is the "High" Renaissance?

Question 59

What was the effect of the Peace of Lodi?

Question 60

Is it correct to describe this period as a renaissance? Why or why not?

Question 61

Propertyless workers and the unemployed constituted what percentage of the population living in cities?

A)10 to 20 percent
B)30 to 40 percent
C)50 to 70 percent

Question 62

What role did war play in the consolidation of the new monarchies of the Renaissance period?

Question 63

Do Machiavelli's ideas really represent such a strong break with existing traditions of political thought? Why or why not?

Question 64

How did humanism influence the Renaissance?

Question 65

Which was more important to the Renaissance, the Florentine painters or the School of Athens? Why?

Question 66

How is the Book of the Courtier best described?

A)It was a primer on military training for nobles.
B)It was a popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats.
C)It was a sharp denunciation of the wasteful noble life.

Question 67

What aspects of religious belief underpin humanism? Did humanism reject all religion? Where did humanism rely on secular values the most?

Question 68

How did works produced by northern Europeans exhibit Renaissance values? Discuss at least two works.

Question 69

How did his renaissance change the church? In what ways was the church weakened and in what ways was it strengthened?

Question 70

Which of the following is NOT true of industries in fifteenth-century Italy?

A)Italian cities expanded luxury industries involving precious stones and glassware.
B)New techniques for digging deeper mines helped spur the development of larger mining operations.
C)The Florentine woolen industry never recovered from the economic depression of the fourteenth century.

Question 71

How is the aristocracy of the sixteenth century best described?

A)It dominated society as it had done in the Middle Ages.
B)It was largely surpassed by the upcoming merchant class.
C)It was still powerful, but shrinking quickly.