Deck 8: Reform: the Northern Renaissance and the Reformation

Question 1

Luther posted his landmark Ninety-Five Theses on a cathedral door in

A) Rome.
B) Wittenberg.
C) Heidelberg.
D) Rotterdam.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The city in which Calvin established a theocratic state was

A) GenevA.
B) Paris.
C) Wittenberg.
D) Rotterdam.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The most popular of secular song forms at the court of Elizabeth was the

A) chorale.
B) motet.
C) madrigal.
D) estampie.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The principal difference between the humanism of Italy and that of Northern Europe was the greater ________ emphasis of the latter.

A) religious
B) classical
C) scientific
D) legalistic

Question 5

The master printmaker of the sixteenth century was

A) Erasmus.
B) Bosch.
C) Cranach.
D) Dürer.

Question 6

Shakespeare modeled his own sonnets after those written by

A) Petrarch.
B) Pico.
C) Chaucer.
D) Sappho.

Question 7

The printing press was effective in

A) accelerating the spread of Protestantism.
B) producing cheaper reading materials.
C) enhancing popular education.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 8

Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley are names associated with

A) Calvinist reform.
B) Elizabethan music.
C) British painting.
D) the literature of folly.

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT associated with sixteenth-century Calvinism?

A) Predestination
B) Salvation of the elect
C) Separation of church and state
D) Bans on music and dancing

Question 10

The comparison of Holbein's Ambassadors and the Ming dynasty's Elegant Literary Gathering suggests that

A) Holbein was influenced by Asian art.
B) humanism was not confined to the West.
C) the Chinese were receptive to Western culture.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 11

The landmark significance of the Protestant Reformation was the fact that it

A) ushered in the Italian Renaissance.
B) enhanced the Catholic Church's influence in Northern Europe.
C) shattered the religious unity of Western Christendom.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 12

Luther asserted that the key to salvation was

A) good works.
B) adult baptism.
C) priestly intervention.
D) faith.

Question 13

Erasmus' Praise of Folly is a landmark example of

A) the essay.
B) satire.
C) the novel.
D) epic poetry.

Question 14

Protestant reformers objected to all of the following EXCEPT

A) the sale of indulgences.
B) absolute papal authority.
C) reading the Bible in the vernacular.
D) the extravagance of the Church of Rome.

Question 15

The "father" of the literary form known as the essay was

A) Erasmus.
B) Montaigne.
C) More.
D) Cervantes.

Question 16

In More's ideal society, which he called "Utopia,"

A) the state was governed by philosopher-kings.
B) cooperation replaced competition and material greed.
C) religion was entirely outlawed.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 17

In the works of Erasmus, More, and Cervantes, ________ is employed to great effect.

A) the epic hero
B) allegory
C) satire
D) lyric poetry

Question 18

Which Northern Renaissance artist was reputed to have perfected oil painting in such works as his "Arnolfini Wedding"?

A) Hieronymus Bosch
B) Pieter Brueghel the Elder
C) Lucas Cranach the Elder
D) Jan van Eyck

Question 19

Which Northern Renaissance painter is notable for his limited interest in religious subject matter and preference for scenes of normal people in ordinary situations?

A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Lucas Cranach the Elder
C) Pieter Brueghel the Elder
D) Hans Holbein the Younger

Question 20

Japanese and Elizabethan theater

A) both appealed to an urban audience.
B) used the same type of stage.
C) used featured female players.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 21

The writings of Erasmus and More, like the Protestant Reformation itself, reflect a deep concern with

A) severing Northern Europe's ties with the Catholic Church.
B) the exercise of Christian conscience.
C) strengthening Papal authority.
D) political efforts to reduce class barriers.

Question 22

Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece was commissioned for the benefit of

A) clergymen.
B) the family of a wealth merchant.
C) a royal court.
D) plague victims.

Question 23

Surveying the culture of Northern Europe in the sixteenth century, select those landmark events, techniques, genres, and styles that have most deeply influenced and/or survived into our own time.

Question 24

The chorale is primarily associated with

A) Lutheranism.
B) Anabaptism.
C) Anglicanism.
D) Calvinism.

Question 25

Luther's chorales were meant to be sung

A) by officiating priests.
B) privately by individual worshippers.
C) by the entire congregation.
D) by trained singers.

Question 26

Describe the ways in which the Northern Renaissance differed from that of Italy, making comparisons between the landmarks that characterized each.

Question 27

Discuss the five landmarks that you consider most important to the phenomenon known as the Protestant Reformation.
Why and how were these significant?

Question 28

It is true to say of Albrecht Dürer that he was

A) a master of engraving techniques.
B) among the first to explore the genre of landscape.
C) deeply influenced by Italian Renaissance art.
D) All these answers are correct.