Deck 2: The Renaissance

Question 1

The period of great artistic growth when leaders of Italian city-states and the Church invested heavily in artists was known as

A)the High Renaissance.
B)the Medieval Period.
C)the Reformation.
D)the Commercial Revolution.
E)imperialism.

Answer 1

the High Renaissance.

Question 2

The Church's decision to change its stance on usury in the fourteenth century was one of the factors that allowed __________ to flourish.

A)Republican government
B)trade
C)banking
D)universities
E)feudalism

Answer 2

banking

Question 3

In 1406,Florence became a maritime power when it conquered

A)Rome.
B)Venice.
C)Pisa.
D)Milan.
E)Naples.

Answer 3

Pisa.

Question 4

What was one of the ways guilds held power in Florence?

A)Guilds all had a blood connection to the Medici family.
B)Guilds elected the Signoria,which ran the city.
C)Guilds held the secret cure to the plague.
D)Guilds demanded the democratic election of the government.
E)Guilds controlled all taxes paid to the government.

Question 5

Merchant capitalism led to the financial rise of urban merchants in Italy at the expense of

A)peasants.
B)nobles.
C)the monarchy.
D)the Church.
E)the pope.

Question 6

What did the condottieri bring to the city-states?

A)artistic innovation
B)military expertise
C)banking knowledge
D)educational reform
E)democratic ideas

Question 7

Who fought over the Italian Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century?

A)France and the Holy Roman Empire
B)the Holy Roman Empire and Spain
C)the Ottoman Turks and France
D)France and Spain
E)England and France

Question 8

Renaissance art flourished due to

A)the proliferation of trade with the New World.
B)the patronage of wealthy families and the popes.
C)the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
D)the unification of the Italian city-states.
E)the ongoing battles with Spain.

Question 9

What was one reason the Italian peninsula became increasingly vulnerable to foreign powers in the mid-fifteenth century?

A)Natural disasters weakened the native rulers.
B)The city-states were divided by economic interests and had a long tradition of quarreling among themselves.
C)The Church failed to defend the peninsula as promised.
D)The Church failed to create a successful treaty with the Ottoman Turks.
E)City-state leaders held the belief that foreign rulers would unite the peninsula.

Question 10

The Tuscan poet __________ was one of the first to rediscover classical learning and lived in Avignon during the "Avignon Papacy."

A)Cosimo D'Medici
B)Francesco Petrarch
C)Michelangelo
D)Thomas More
E)Leonardo DaVinci

Question 11

Brunelleschi studied the ruins of classical architecture to inform his construction of the __________ of the church of Santa Maria de Fiore.

A)dome
B)pointed arches
C)flying buttresses
D)thick cathedral walls
E)vaults

Question 12

A humanist was most likely to study

A)religion.
B)law .
C)saint's lives.
D)rhetoric.
E)medicine.

Question 13

During the Renaissance,married women were

A)considered to be equal to their husbands in the eyes of the law.
B)regarded as equal only at universities.
C)considered to be inferior to men in all areas.
D)allowed to sell property but not buy goods without their husbands' permission.
E)never taught to read or write.

Question 14

Why did most noble families accept the rule of the Medici family?

A)They were paid to accept Medici rule.
B)They were given land to accept Medici rule.
C)They wanted the stability and prosperity that Medici rule brought to the city-state.
D)They feared a takeover by the Sforza family.
E)They were required to accept the Medici by the pope.

Question 15

Which of the following is true of Renaissance artists?

A)Renaissance artists attempted to represent beauty in a realistic way.
B)Renaissance artists typically painted rigid images on a flat space.
C)Renaissance artists developed linear theory,in which perpendicular lines recede from the surface and diverge at the vanishing point.
D)Renaissance artists focused on creating abstract landscapes in order to depict emotion.
E)Renaissance artists were obsessed with portraying the lower classes of society.

Question 16

What was the most important element of the Peace of Lodi?

A)It established a common bank in Italy.
B)It allowed all city-states to fund great works of art.
C)It confirmed papal control of all the Italian city-states.
D)It ensured decades of peace among the Italian city-states.
E)It allowed France to take control of the Papal States.

Question 17

The Babylonian Captivity refers to a time when the popes lived in

A)Avignon.
B)Florence.
C)Paris.
D)Flanders.
E)Milan.

Question 18

In the medieval period,the city-state developed as a viable and effective political-unit in Italy due to

A)the expansion of trade and commerce between the East and the West.
B)the invasion of the Ottoman Empire.
C)the fall of Rome.
D)the end of the Crusades to the Holy Land.
E)the initial dispute between the Christian leaders of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

Question 19

The only Italian city-state that continued to prosper after the foreign invasions was

A)Rome.
B)Florence.
C)Pisa.
D)Venice.
E)Naples.

Question 20

The term "Renaissance man" refers to someone who

A)was born during the Renaissance.
B)embraced many forms of knowledge.
C)refused to accept the ideas of the Renaissance.
D)painted only during the Renaissance.
E)chose to move to Florence during the Renaissance.

Question 21

Machiavelli believed that "good laws and institutions" depended on

A)military strength.
B)public debate.
C)peaceful protests.
D)highly educated political scholars.
E)benevolent rulers.

Question 22

By the middle of the sixteenth century,most of the Italian city-states were dependent on __________ for protection against France.

A)England
B)the Holy Roman Empire
C)the Netherlands
D)Portugal
E)the Ottoman Empire

Question 23

What were the key differences between the goals and outlooks of medieval scholasticism and Renaissance humanism?

Question 24

What values lay at the heart of Machiavelli's political theories?

Question 25

By 1600,Venice had lost its once great commercial power to

A)Florence.
B)the Holy Roman Empire.
C)Spain.
D)the Ottoman Empire.
E)China.

Question 26

Who wrote The Prince and The Art of War?

A)Cosmo Medici
B)Michelangelo
C)DaVinci
D)Machiavelli
E)Charles VII of France

Question 27

What was one important reason for the economic decline of the Italian city-states?

A)the increase in new products and trade from the New World
B)new,dangerous trading routes
C)the lack of natural resources in the Italian peninsula
D)continued warfare with England
E)the expansion of Renaissance ideas to Northern Europe