The Renaissance

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Objective: Answer at least 14 questions correctly. Only answer each question once or it will be counted as a mistake. JavaScript required!

1.Christians who objected to some Roman Catholic teachings were called ______.

Reformers
Protestants
Philosophers
Lutherans

2. Someone who supports another person by use of money or influence is ______.

a patrician
an aristocrat
a patron
a monarch

3.What term is used to describe the literature of ancient Greece and ancient Rome?

classics
tradition
revival
masterpieces

4. A fleet of warships is called ______.

an indulgence
an armada
a reign
a formation

5. The governing body that makes the laws of England is called the ______.

Senate
Magna Carta
Assembly
Parliament

6. The American Constitution directly adopted liberties that were included in the English _______

Magna Carta
Parliament
Proverbs
Bill of Rights

7. By 1689, 86 years after Elizabeth's death, England was ______.

a constitutional monarchy
an obigarchy
a group of city-states
an absolute monarchy

8. Once they had rediscovered the traditions of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, the artists of Europe began to ______.

reject classical ideas
design religious buildings
learn how to paint
create lifelike sculptures

9. One of the most important Renaissance painters and inventors was ___________.

Michelangelo
Lorenzo de' Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Petrarch

10. How are the Renaissance and the Reformation related?

The Reformation grew out of the new ideas started by the Renaissance
Both the Reformation and the Renaissance started in Florence.
The paintings of the Renaissance were copied during the Reformation
Because of the Renaissance, Petrarch gained power in the Reformation.

11. William Shakespeare was Elizabethan England's greatest __________.

naval hero
philosopher
painter
writer

12. To whom did followers of the Roman Catholic faith look for guidance?.

the Spainish
Martin Luther
the pope
Queen Elilzabeth

13. Who successfully stopped the Spanish attempt to invade England?

Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake
Leo X
Johann Gutenberg

14. Where did the Renaissance first blossom?

in Italy
in England
in Germany
in France

15. Martin Luther was outraged by the Church's practice of selling _________.

property
people
pardons
Bibles

16. Queen Elizabeth was a product of the Renaissance because she spoke ________.

many languages
about religion
only French
to her subjects

17. The English Bill of Rights was an unusual and daring document because it clearly _______.

overturned the Magna Carta
limited the power of the monarch
gave barons controls of the army
supported the Catholic religion

18. Which of the following showed that the Catholic Church had recognized its need to reform and to define its teachings more clearly?

the 95 Statements at Wittenberg
the English defeat of the Spanish
the Council of Trent
the invention of the printing press

19. Fourteenth-century thinkers believed the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans would teach them ________.

foreign languages
how to reach the Middle East
about monotheism
the secrets of the past

20. The city of Floprence became known as the "Dynamo of the Renaissance" because ________.

Europe's most talented artists all worked there
many machines were contructed there
all foreign trade routes began and ended there
the printing press was invented there

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