Deck 14: The High Renaissance in Northern Europe and Spain

Question 1

Which painting technique did D ü rer learn in Italy?

A) chiaroscuro
B) sfumato
C) depth representation
D) linear perspective

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Who painted The Garden of Earthly Delights ?

A) Bosch
B) El Greco
C) Grünewald
D) Bruegel

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is the name of the Italian Renaissance-style complex in Spain that contrasts with the Moorish influence still prominent in Spanish architecture of the time?

A) Casa de Pilatos
B) Santo Tomé
C) Alcazar
D) El Escorial

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Augustinian friar __________ started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 by posting his 95 theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg.

A) Martin Luther
B) Ulrich Zwingli
C) Jonathan Edwards
D) John Calvin

Question 5

Which areas of Europe remained faithful to Roman Catholicism during the Reformation era? 

A) Spain, France, and Italy
B) Germany, Spain, and the British Isles
C) Italy, Northern Germany, and France
D) Belgium, England, and the Netherlands

Question 6

Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil is a famous example of which artistic medium?

A) engraving
B) oil painting
C) triptych
D) watercolor

Question 7

Who was the leader of the Reformation in Geneva?

A) Martin Luther
B) John Calvin
C) Max Weber
D) Michel Montaigne

Question 8

What famous Reformation hymn is attributed to Martin Luther?

A) "Christ Lay in Death's Bonds"
B) "A Knight, Death, and the Devil"
C) "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"
D) "Wake Up, the Voice Calls"

Question 9

What scientist wrote a complete anatomical treatise that illustrated the human form?

A) Aureolus Paracelsus
B) Sir William Harvey
C) Andreas Vesalius
D) Leonardo da Vinci

Question 10

Who painted Hunters in the Snow ?

A) Dürer
B) Grünewald
C) Bruegel
D) Altdorfer

Question 11

What luxurious, hybrid-design chateau was built during the reign of Francis I?

A) Château de Reimes
B) Château de Chambord
C) Versailles
D) Château de Paris

Question 12

What is the term for a passage in a play spoken directly to the audience, unheard by other characters?

A) ayre
B) soliloquy
C) monologue
D) dialogue

Question 13

What growing political force contributed to the success of the Protestant Reformation?

A) communism
B) nationalism
C) Liberalism
D) nihilism

Question 14

Who was the most famous French composer of chansons in the 1500s?

A) Clement Janequin
B) Thomas Tallis
C) Clement Marot
D) Henrich Isaac

Question 15

Which family ruled England during the 16^th century?

A) York
B) Stuart
C) Tudor
D) Windsor

Question 16

Who was responsible for the important translation of the Bible into German in 1521?

A) Johannes Gutenberg
B) Martin Luther
C) Albrecht Dürer
D) Nicholas Hilliard

Question 17

Who argued that the Earth and planets orbit the sun?

A) Vesalius
B) Copernicus
C) da Vinci
D) Paracelsus

Question 18

Which areas of Europe converted to Protestantism?

A) the British Isles, Italy, and Southern Germany
B) Germany, Portugal, and England
C) Southern Germany, Austria, and the Balkans
D) England, Scandinavia, and Switzerland

Question 19

What word did Michel Montaigne use to describe his short written meditations?

A) reflections
B) essays
C) thoughts
D) theses

Question 20

From the 16^th century forward, where were the two branches of the Habsburg dynasty located?

A) Austria and France
B) Austria and England
C) Austria and Spain
D) Switzerland and Italy

Question 21

_________ was Henry VIII's court painter and traveled to paint portraits of prospective brides for the king.

A) Holbein
B) El Greco
C) Clouet
D) Hilliard

Question 22

Why did Elizabethan music flourish more than the visual arts? What innovations did Elizabethan composers contribute?

Question 23

Which English composer wrote both Protestant and Catholic music, including the 40-voice motet Spem in alium ?

A) Byrd
B) Tallis
C) Weelkes
D) Morley

Question 24

What religious views did Renaissance humanists and Protestant reformers often share?

Question 25

Which was a central belief of the Anabaptist movement?

A) Christians should be baptized in adulthood, when they can understand their declaration of faith.
B) Baptisms should be performed only by direct descendants of Martin Luther.
C) John the Baptist was never an acquaintance of Jesus Christ.
D) God has already determined all humans who will be saved.

Question 26

In what ways are the paintings of Bruegel similar to those of Bosch? What qualities differ between their words?

Question 27

What Roman playwrights served as models for English drama?

A) Sophocles, Virgil, and Homer
B) Seneca, Plautus, and Terence
C) Aeschylus and Euripides
D) Titus, Lucretius, and Epictetus

Question 28

What English musical form was based upon the motet?

A) virginal
B) anthem
C) ayre
D) canzonet

Question 29

The technique in which an artist incises lines on a copper plate is called __________.

A) iconoclasm
B) galleon
C) engraving
D) inscription

Question 30

What does the image of Christ in the Isenheim Altarpiece suggest about Grünewald's interest in the Renaissance conception of ideal beauty and the humanist interest in classical antiquity? How does Grünewald depict the Crucifixion?

Question 31

What were Luther's criticisms of Roman Catholicism? What reforms or changes did he believe the church should institute?

Question 32

The portly, drunken knight __________, a comic character, appears in two Shakespeare plays and has inspired many other artistic works.

A) Guildenstern
B) Prospero
C) Polonius
D) Falstaff

Question 33

Who painted Battle of Alexander at Issus , in which landscape elements dominate the composition?

A) Grünewald
B) Bosch
C) van Hemessen
D) Altdorfer

Question 34

The English artist ________ is best known for his miniatures, small portraits often painted in watercolors.

A) Holbein
B) Marlowe
C) Hilliard
D) Wyatt

Question 35

Which Elizabethan composer wrote melancholy ayres for lute and voice?

A) Thomas Morley
B) John Dowland
C) William Byrd
D) John Dunstable

Question 36

In Elizabethan drama, what were audience members who stood near the stage called?

A) the gallery
B) groundlings
C) the mass
D) pit-dwellers

Question 37

What is considered to be Christopher Marlowe's greatest masterpiece?

A) Romeo and Juliet
B) The Spanish Tragedy
C) Utopia
D) Dr. Faustus

Question 38

Which Shakespeare play, an early work, is actually a synthesis of two ancient Roman plays?

A) Comedy of Errors
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Twelfth Night
D) Hamlet

Question 39

Thomas Morley wrote popular works in which musical genre?

A) ballads
B) motets
C) madrigals
D) frottolas

Question 40

In music, what does "virginal" mean?

A) an early form of the English Christmas carol
B) a girls' choir
C) an English setting of the mass ordinary
D) a small, tabletop keyboard instrument