The Italian Renaissance
Review Questions
1. Which of the following cities played
a key role in the trade between Europe
and the Near East?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Bologna
Siena
Florence
Milan
Venice
2. Which of the following cities had
uninterrupted trade with the Near East
throughout the Middle Ages,
maintaining a vibrant urban society?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Lyon
Pisa
Paris
Naples
Avignon
3. Social strife and competition for
political power became so intense
within the cities that most evoled into:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
despotisms.
Feudal states.
Oligarchies.
Democracies.
Mini-monarchies.
4. Which of the following is the correct
list of the four major social groups that
existed within Florence?
A. nobles and merchants, clergy, middle-burgher,
and lower economic classes
B. Nobles and merchants, new merchant class,
clergy, and lower economic classes
C. Kings and queens, new merchant class, clergy,
and lower economic classes.
D. Nobles and merchants, new merchant class,
middle-burgher, and lower economic classes
E. Clergy, nobility, merchants, and serfs
5. The first humanists were:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Orators and poets.
Politicians and their secretaries.
Farmers and blacksmiths.
Historians and musicians.
Clergy.
6. He was known as the “Father of
Humanism”:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
Guarino da Verona
Cosimo de’ Medici
7. All of the following are true of
Renaissance art except:
a. Art tended to be abstract and formulaic.
b. Art emphatically embraced the natural world
and human emotions.
c. Works were given rational, even mathematical
order.
d. Artwork reflected symmetry and proportion
reflected a belief in the harmony of the
universe.
e. Art often blended classical and Christian
influences.
8. Who is considered the “Father of
Renaissance Painting?”
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Donatello
Raphael
Michelangelo
Da Vinci
Giotto
9. All of the following were great
masters of the High Renaissance
EXCEPT:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Raphael.
Vincent Van Gogh.
Michelangelo.
Titian.
10. His most famous painting is the
Mona Lisa.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Donatello
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Masaccio