Deck 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe

Question 1

The French king __________ tried to bring the Italian Renaissance to France,and succeeded in brining Leonardo da Vinci.

A) Louis XIV
B) Jean I
C) Francis I
D) Charles V
E) Georges II

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Aerial perspective is another term for __________ perspective.

A) vanishing
B) rational
C) atmospheric
D) classical
E) Renaissance

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Shakespeare's tragedy,__________,is based on a mythical English king.

A) Richard II
B) King Lear
C) Henry V
D) Henry VIII
E) Hamlet

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise," are the well-known words of Martin __________ before his inquisition.

A) Zwingli
B) Calvin
C) Copernicus
D) Luther
E) Huss

Question 5

The __________ helped spread the ideas of the Reformation.

A) Catholic mass
B) newspaper
C) signal tower
D) monarchy
E) printing press

Question 6

A government run by religious leaders is called a __________.

A) monarchy
B) oligarchy
C) clergy
D) theocracy
E) fiefdom

Question 7

A work of art portraying the removal of Christ's body from the cross is called a __________ scene.

A) decomposition
B) lamentation
C) deposition
D) resurrection
E) judgment

Question 8

Shakespeare's plays fall into three genres: comedies,tragedies,and __________.

A) parodies
B) satires
C) dramas
D) histories
E) epics

Question 9

Hans Holbein the Younger served as court painter to __________.

A) Jean I
B) Francis I
C) Charles II
D) Henry VIII
E) George I

Question 10

Two images hinged together are called a __________.

A) double-vision
B) diptych
C) triptych
D) relief
E) panel

Question 11

Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great established __________ as the convention of later Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights.

A) iambic pentameter
B) free verse
C) blank verse
D) comedic styling
E) large spectacles

Question 12

Universal access to education is one part of Thomas More's __________.

A) school
B) church
C) utopia
D) city-state
E) military

Question 13

Albrecht Dürer has been called the Leonardo of the __________ Renaissance.

A) late
B) Dutch
C) Protestant
D) northern
E) Netherlandish

Question 14

Flemish painters were interested in __________.

A) naturalism
B) Gothic style
C) light-heartedness
D) romance
E) Christian reform

Question 15

A type of hymn tune important in this period is called a __________.

A) chorale
B) Lieder
C) cantata
D) sonata
E) oratorio

Question 16

German secular songs are referred to as __________.

A) Lederhosen
B) Lieder
C) Deutsche
D) Baum
E) Berger

Question 17

The establishment of Protestant sects within the Christian Church is called the __________.

A) Copernican Revolution
B) Council of Trent
C) Reformation
D) Counter-Reformation
E) Wittenberg Revolt

Question 18

__________ is an example of a Christian humanist.

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

Question 19

The use of atmosphere to create a sense of deep space is called __________.

A) linear perspective
B) ambient perspective
C) spatiality
D) general perspective
E) atmospheric perspective

Question 20

Ulrich Zwingli condemned pilgrimages,fasts,papal supremacy and __________.

A) masses
B) baptism
C) catechism
D) transubstantiation
E) church taxes

Question 21

The ballett was a type of Renaissance __________ music.

A) program
B) folk
C) secular
D) church
E) court

Question 22

The __________ courts were particularly influential for their patronage of music.

A) Netherlandish
B) Italian
C) French
D) Flemish
E) English

Question 23

Unlike the other Protestant reformers,__________ saw music as an essential part of worship.

Question 24

__________ des Prez is compared to Michelangelo and called the "father of musicians."

Question 25

Christopher Marlow's best-known play is __________.

A) Othello
B) Tamburlaine the Great
C) The Tempest
D) Julius Caesar
E) Doctor Faustus

Question 26

The reign of Elizabeth I was __________ and resulted in much literary experimentation.

A) desperate
B) pessimistic
C) optimistic
D) melancholy
E) nostalgic

Question 27

Erasmus argued that a massive program of __________ would create a literate,Christian community.

Question 28

Copernicus argued for a(n)__________ theory of the universe.

Question 29

The interludes of dancing in "dinner ballets" are called __________.

Question 30

The medium of __________ paint helped Flemish painters achieve a new naturalism.

Question 31

The __________ helped spread music and identify composers as individuals.

A) court
B) church
C) aristocracy
D) guild
E) printing press

Question 32

The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic communion largely because of __________ reasons.

A) doctrinal
B) political
C) theological
D) artistic
E) liturgical

Question 33

Poetic lines of five metrical feet in which each foot has two syllables are called __________ pentameter.

A) dual
B) dialogic
C) blank
D) iambic
E) Elizabethan

Question 34

Montaigne's book inaugurated the term __________ for a short prose composition treating a given subject in a rather informal and personal manner.

A) prose poem
B) commentary
C) dialogue
D) discourse
E) essay

Question 35

The __________ of Flemish painting separated it from the Gothic style and connected it to the Italian Renaissance.

A) subject matter
B) two-dimensionality
C) three-dimensionality
D) content
E) patronage

Question 36

Clément Janequin is associated with the newly developed __________ chanson.

Question 37

.The most important musical contribution of the Reformation was the __________.

A) chorale
B) opera
C) sonata
D) symphony
E) monody

Question 38

The Globe __________ of London appealed to both lords and commoners.

Question 39

John Calvin's doctrine of __________ argued that God had already chosen those he would save.

Question 40

Hieronymus __________ did not follow the developments of Italy.

Question 41

What is the name of the text that Martin Luther attached to the church door at Wittenberg?

Question 42

Disagreement over transubstantiation was one of the causes of the Reformation.

Question 43

Advances in cartography are a significant part of the Renaissance.

Question 44

Erasmus' The Praise of Folly is an important work of __________ in the tradition of Lucian.

Question 45

Humanists believed that humans are fundamentally sinful,but could be reformed.

Question 46

Who was author of the groundbreaking On the Fabric of the Human Body?

Question 47

Luther's An Appeal to the German Nation argued that papal taxes,although not mentioned in the Bible,were necessary.

Question 48

Calvinists saw themselves as building the "New Jerusalem" on earth.

Question 49

Nicholas Copernicus argued for a heliocentric universe.

Question 50

London was the center of music __________,distributing sheet music to an unprecedented audience of musicians.

Question 51

The dominant force in English sacred music was the Chapel __________.

Question 52

Utopianism influenced and inspired the colonization of North America.

Question 53

John Calvin believed salvation came through an appeal to saints and the Virgin Mary.

Question 54

What is an example of a utopian community that developed in America in the 1600s?

Question 55

In which Protestant reform tradition did Puritanism and Presbyterianism develop?

Question 56

The English composer Thomas Morley played an important role in importing and adapting the Italian __________.

Question 57

Comedies are the exemplary Elizabethan theatre genre.

Question 58

Montaigne's essays typically attack __________ and favor secular ethics based in Stoicism.

Question 59

Which playwright is remembered for his low tolerance and vicious caricatures of contemporary individuals?

Question 60

Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece was installed in a hospital's church.

Question 61

Compare and contrast Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci as two models of the "Renaissance artist." Consider the role of close,scientific observation in the creation of the art,religious themes,and Dürer's use of printmaking media to reach a wide audience.

Question 62

Examine The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.Which aspects of the painting fit the descriptions of the Renaissance in this chapter? Which aspects seem medieval or Gothic? What seems completely new?

Question 63

Pick an example of literature from this chapter.Discuss the influence of Christian humanism on its themes.Contrast these themes with the ideas of Protestant reformers such as John Calvin.