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Chapter 17 Sections 1 And 2 Review Part II
Test Description: The Renaissance
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Who had preserved Greek and Roman culture throughout the Middle Ages?
A
the Chinese
B
Spanish monks
C
the Egyptians
D
Arab Scholars
2) Who was a famous scholar of ancient works and encouraged Europeans to search for Latin manuscripts in monasteries?
A
da Vinci
B
Petrarch
C
Erasmus
D
Raphael
3) Who wrote The Divine Comedy, one of the world’s greatest poems, in the vernacular?
A
da Vinci
B
Dante Alighieri
C
Chaucer
D
Donatello
4) What language did Chaucer write The Canterbury Tales in?
A
French
B
English
C
Spanish
D
Latin
5) Which inventor developed a printing press that used movable type?
A
Jan van Eyck
B
Johannes Gutenberg
C
Erasmus
D
Leonardo da Vinci
6) The printing press helped to spread the ideas of the Renaissance by printing more books and making them more available.
A
False
B
True
7) What were two new techniques used by Renaissance artists to add realism and express drama and emotion.
A
impressionism and oil painting
B
perspective and chiaroscuro
C
decadence and minimalism
8) Who painted The Last Supper?
A
Donatello
B
Leonardo da Vinci
C
Raphael
D
Michelangelo
9) Who created the statue David?
A
Michelangelo
B
Leonardo da Vinci
C
Donatello
D
Raphael
10) Which artist painted the School of Athens?
A
Leonardo da Vinci
B
Raphael
C
Michelangelo
D
Donatello
11) What refers to art from places we know today as Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and the Netherlands.
A
Southern Renaissance
B
English Renaissance
C
Northern Renaissance
D
Flanders Renaissance
12) Which northern artist was a great oil painter?
A
William Shakespeare
B
Michelangelo
C
Jan van Eyck
D
Albrecht Durer
13) What was the northern artist, Albrecht Durer, best known for?
A
frescoes
B
oil paintings
C
engravings
D
sculptures
14) Who was the greatest English writer of the Renaissance?
A
Vincent van Gough
B
William Shakespeare
C
Leonardo da Vinci
D
Marco Polo
15) Which of the following is NOT a type of play that Shakespeare wrote?
A
histories
B
tragedies
C
comedies
D
epics
16) Which of the following is NOT a reason why the Renaissance began in Italy.
A
Italy had been the center of the Roman Empire and its people were surrounded by Roman art and ruins.
B
Italy's cities had become very wealthy and could afford to pay painters, sculptors, and other artists.
C
Italy was divided into several small city-states that competed with each other.
D
Italy had the strongest empire in all of Europe by the late Middle Ages.
17) After the Black Death, Europeans began looking to the future when times seemed better.
A
False
B
True
18) Europeans began to stress the importance of the individual during the Renaissance.
A
True
B
False
19) People became less secular and more focused on religion during the Renaissance.
A
False
B
True
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