Renaissance Final

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A leader "who desires to maintain himself must learn to be not always good, but to be so or not as necessity may require." This statement is typical of the writings of which of the following? • Castiglione • Erasmus • Machiavelli • Petrarch • Boccaccio

A

Before the Renaissance, which was the greatest patron of the arts? • The Church • The middle classes • European monarchs • The nobility • The governments of the city-states

A

Before the Renaissance, which was the greatest patron of the arts? • the Church • the Middle classes • European monarchs • the nobility • the governments of the city states

B

For the most part, Italian city-states during the Renaissance • were governed by democratically-elected bodies • were dominated by despotic rule (princes and kings) • worked in cooperation with neighboring city-states • were characterized by extreme poverty • were all controlled by a central Italian government in Turin

B

Machiavelli's The Prince helped create modern literature because • it became the "Bible of 20th-century dictators" • it was the first treatise on political ethics • it was written with the goal of unifying Italy • it was based primarily on empirical observation • it was the first work written in the vernacular

D

Machiavelli's The Prince represented an attempt to find ways to • blend medieval and Renaissance scholarship • convince the French to intercede in Italian affairs on behalf of his native Florence • show how the rule of princes was clearly inferior to republican forms of government • unify the entire peninsula under a powerful ruler • show how a Christian prince can use religious precepts as a moral guide

E

Renaissance sculpture differed from medieval sculpture in that • it ignored religious themes • Renaissance artists made use of marble • it abhorred realism • it abandoned classical tradition • it revived the classical tradition of sculpture in the round

B

The "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth century in Europe: • continued the trend toward decentralization • were often obsessed with the acquisition and expansion of power • attempted to build up the nobility for support • accepted the domination of the church as a matter of course • actually lost power in their countries

A

The Medici family, a wealthy banking family, exerted their influence over: • Florence • Rome • Venice • Naples • Milan

B

The dynasty that came to power in England in 1485: • Valois d. Habsburg • Tudor e. Zurich • Medici

B

The educational innovation of the Renaissance humanists was the: • use of classical primary sources • study of modern languages • return to traditional teaching methods • focus on purely religious themes • emphasis on theoretical instead of practical lessons

B

The most important book of etiquette that instructed nobles how to appear and behave was: • Erasmus's In Praise of Folly • Castiglione's Book of the Courtier • Machiavelli's The Prince • Boccaccio's Decameron • Kempis's Imitation of Christ

B

The sack of Rome in 1527 played a significant role in the • elimination of the papacy as a political force in Italian affairs • end of the High Renaissance • Protestant Reformation • economic collapse of southern Italy • growth in power of the East vis-a-vis the west

C

The works of art created by Renaissance artists • did not represent a departure from the works of medieval artists • tended to be less secular in subject than works by medieval artists • incorporated new techniques of chiaroscuro and linear perspective • tended to be less multi-dimensional than works by Byzantine and Gothic counterparts • were generally more abstract than works by medieval artists

E

To what period of church history does the "Babylonian Captivity" refer? • The Great Schism • The period of two popes • The period of three popes • The Conciliar Movement era • The Avignon papacy

E

What were the two major kingdoms in Spain, that were joined by personal union in 1492? • Navarre and Catalonia • Aragon and Catalonia • Granada and Toledo • Castille and Granada • Castille and Aragon

C

Which dynasty of merchants, bankers, and despots of Florence used its wealth to patronize the great creative artists of the day? • Petrarch • Bellini • Medici • Sforza • Condottieri

A

Which of the following cities became the center of High Renaissance (1490-1520) culture? • Rome • Venice • Paris • Naples • Milan

E

Which of these city-states is said to have been the cultural center of the Renaissance and has been compared to ancient Athens for its burst of creativity over a relatively short time span? • Venice • Milan • Rome • Genoa • Florence

B

Which of these concepts was NOT valued by Renaissance thinkers? • Humans as the measures of all things • The cloistered life • A life of activity • Excellence in all human endeavors • Living up to one's individual potential

D

Which was NOT a goal of Christian humanists like Erasmus and Thomas More? • to recapture the moral force of early Christianity • to reform the Roman Catholic Church • to criticize the pomposities of leaders and inequities of society • to support Protestantism • to emphasize the religious aspects of classical literature

D

While the bankers and merchants were the art patrons during the Renaissance, during the Middle Ages the leading patron(s) of the arts: • were also the bankers and merchants • was the aristocracy • were the monarchs • was the Church • were the other artists

C

• All of the following were painters during the Renaissance EXCEPT: • Botticelli • Raphael • Bruni • Buonarroti • Massaccio

B

• Michaelangelo's David displays which thematic innovation of Renaissance artists? • The depiction of religious personages • Accurate human anatomy • The use of wood as a material • The portrayal of enigmatic expressions • The depiction of classical costumes

D

• Renaissance artists viewed the medieval past with • the same reverence that they held for the classical past • tremendous respect for their achievements, though they did not view them as equal to the ancients • no clear sense that their own age was distinct from the medieval period • disdain for what they perceived to be its backwardness • great interest because it served to inspire their own works of art

B

• The "prince of Humanists," who attempted through satiric writings to reform the Roman Catholic Church while remaining loyal to it was: • Sir Thomas More • Erasmus • Luther • Cervantes • Rabelais

D

• The powerful middle class that developed in the independent city-states of Renaissance Italy was involved in all of the following EXCEPT • making profitable loans to popes and monarchs • financing commercial ventures • patronizing the arts • encouraging manorialism • controlling the governments of the city-states

D

• The sculpture of the Renaissance differed from that of the Middle Ages in all the following ways EXCEPT: • the forms were anatomically proportional • the faces expressed emotion • the figures expressed animation • the artists prided themselves on the individuality of style • the subject matter was nonreligious

B

• The so-called pagan humanism of the Italian Renaissance differed from the so-called Christian humanism of the Northern Renaissance primarily because • the art of the Italian Renaissance depicted only classical themes • the literature of the Northern Renaissance drew upon the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible and the writings of the Church Fathers • Italian Renaissance writers were often antireligious • the merchant-princes who ruled the Italian city-states resisted the influence of the Church in civic affairs • the Northern churches were the biggest patrons of the arts

A

• Which of the following are considered writers of the literary school described in the above passage? • Petrarch, Boccaccio, Erasmus • Boccaccio, Erasmus, Brunelleschi • Erasmus, Castiglione, Thomas Aquinas • Castiglione, Machiavelli, Thomas Aquinas • Petrarch, Giotto, Castiglione

E

• Which of the following was NOT an important development of the Northern Renaissance? • The use of the first movable-type printing press in Europe • The formulation of the heliocentric view • The establishment of a brilliant English vernacular literature • Mysticism's assertion that an individual could commune directly with God, unaided by the Church • The invention of the banking system

D

"It was a literary movement that reflected a new way of looking at the human condition. The writers were laymen, not clergy, who examined secular issues such as politics and the emotional life of the individual. While they drew on the themes of the ancient classics and often wrote in classical Latin and Greek, they also laid the foundations for modern language and literature by writing in their mother tongues. • The literary movement describes above is • secularism • individualism • classicism • humanism • virtu

E

"Oh highest and most marvelous felicity of man! To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills." • The above quote represents most closely the view of • a Northern humanist scholar • someone from the Middle Ages • a Catholic priest • a Protestant preacher • an Italian Renaissance scholar

D

In the fifteenth century, Lorenzo Valla proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery by • showing that the paper was too new to be from the time of Constantine • providing other documents that contradicted what was supposedly stated in the Donation • revealing papal documents that discussed the forged nature of the document • showing that the language used in the document was not in use in the age of Constantine • guessing that Constantine never would have wanted to leave the West to the Church

A

Italy during the Renaissance: • was fragmented into different city-states and kingdoms • was fragmented into two parts: the northern, industrial section and the southern, agrarian society • was unified under the leadership of the Medici family • was unified under the king of France • was unified under the rule of the papacy