Deck 12: Renaissances and Reformations

Question 1

The Renaissance took place between roughly

A) 1190 and 1245.
B) 1350 and 1550.
C) 1400 and 1600.
D) 1550 and 1650.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The cult of classical learning had its origins in monastic life.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The concern to develop human potential is known as ______________.

Answer 3

humanism

Question 4

The major elements of the Renaissance were humanism, classicism, and

A) theology.
B) satire.
C) mysticism.
D) statecraft.

Question 5

The _____________ empire had long controlled the northern Italian city-states.

Question 6

Italian nobles tended to live in cities.

Question 7

The ___________ family ruled Florence.

Question 8

The influx of scholars and artists from where contributed to the intellectual life of the Renaissance?

A) Persia
B) China
C) Byzantine empire
D) Islamic empire

Question 9

_____________ literature began to appear in print during the Renaissance.

Question 10

Who wrote The Prince?

A) Rabelais
B) Erasmus
C) Machiavelli
D) Luther

Question 11

Castiglione came from _______________.

Question 12

When Humanism took root in the north it did so as French Humanism.

Question 13

____________ was arguably the greatest humanist scholar.

Question 14

Erasmus' masterpiece was

A) The Prince.
B) Julius Excluded.
C) In Praise of Folly.
D) a new edition of the New Testament.

Question 15

Who wrote the Ninety Five Theses?

A) Luther
B) Erasmus
C) Rabelais
D) Calvin

Question 16

Luther's main quarrel with the church was over the ___________

Question 17

Luther was excommunicated by the pope.

Question 18

The Anabaptists were breakaway followers of _______.

A) Luther
B) Calvin
C) Zwingli
D) Erasmus

Question 19

Calvin published the Institutes of Christian Religion in

A) 1500.
B) 1535.
C) 1493.
D) 1601.

Question 20

Calvin's Elect are the members of the church who are _______.

A) political leaders
B) religious leaders
C) morally upright
D) destined for heaven