Renaissance Test

Question 0

The renaissance spanned between:

Answer 0

14th and 17th centuries

Question 1

What does the term renaissance mean?

Answer 1

The term mean “rebirth” or “renewal”

Question 2

The renaissance started in____________and worked its way

Answer 2

____________through Europe. Florence Italy, north and east

Question 3

The philosophy centered around the belief that man is the center of his own universe started what movement?

Answer 3

HUMANISM

Question 4

This artist and scholar created scientific studies of flying machines, inventions ideas, and the human anatomy:

Answer 4

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 5

How did he learn the human anatomy?

Answer 5

Human atuopsies

Question 6

Name two famous da Vinci painting

Answer 6

Mona Lisa

The last supper

Question 7

What are the three defining characteristics of humanism?

Answer 7

Encouraged to question conventional wisdom
Encouraged to be curious/experimentation
Invention encouraged

Question 8

Who built a telescope that proved the earth and other planets revolved around the sun.

Answer 8

Galileo

Question 9

What did Galileo discover by dropping different sized cannon ball of the side of a building?

Answer 9

That all objects fall at the same rate of speed

Question 10

This masterd liner perspective

Answer 10

Brunelleschi

Question 11

Important invention to learned to read and right

Answer 11

Moveable printing press

Question 12

Who invented the printing press

Answer 12

Jonas Gutenberg

Question 13

Before the printing press responsible for righting books

Answer 13

Monks, clergy of the church

Question 14

Type of flag that was flown horizontally from the end of a spear is called a:

Answer 14

Pennon

Question 15

Flags were used as a way to _______ communicate

Answer 15

Visually

Question 16

What does the color green traditionally symbolize in a rennasaunce flag

Answer 16

Peace and freedom

Question 17

What is the difference between and flag and a banner?

Answer 17

Flag is hung horizontally from the side, a banner is hung from the top

Question 18

How many layers of clothing did a woman usually wear?

Answer 18

5

Question 19

What two social groups wore brightly colored/patterned clothing

Answer 19

Wealthy and royalty

Question 20

Two common fashion trends for female head accessories

Answer 20

Intricate braiding or head peices

Question 21

How did parents dress children

Answer 21

Like woman

Question 22

What Renaissance invention spearheaded the common use of woodcut images

Answer 22

The printing press

Question 23

Artists removed the _________

Answer 23

Negative space

Question 24

How did the subject matter of woodcut change

Answer 24

Depicted everyday images of life

Question 25

What popular modern dessert was not available

Answer 25

Chocolate

Question 26

Meat what usually cooked by

Answer 26

Braising and boiling it in water (to save fuel)

Question 27

What essential piece of cooking equipment was found in every kitchen

Answer 27

Stew pot

Question 28

Who wrote the play bisclvet

Answer 28

Lais of Marie di France

Question 29

The bisclvet includes the subject of

Answer 29

Lycanthropy

Question 30

what are the two ideas that portrait that story of love?

Answer 30

The power of love and betrayal

Question 31

Who did the author right this series of story's for?

Answer 31

King Henry ll

Question 32

I

Answer 32

S

Question 33

H

Answer 33

H

Question 34

J

Answer 34

J

Question 35

EE

Answer 35

Es