Chapter 5 Test: Sections 1 & 2
Study Questions
World History – Mr. Heaps
Test: Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Question # 1:
What was the purpose of a liberal arts
education?
Answer:
To produce individuals who follow a
path of virtue & wisdom.
Question # 2:
What were the 3 primary characteristics
of the Renaissance?
Answer:
• Renaissance Italy was an urban society.
• It was an age of recovery (plague, political
instability (feudalism), & decline in Church.
• A new focus on human beings and individual
ability and worth. (humanism)
Question # 3:
Which Italian city-state was the artistic
center of the Renaissance?
Answer:
Florence, Italy
(Controlled by the Medici Family who
had a passion for art & sponsored
many artists)
Question # 4:
How did the style of Northern
Renaissance artists differ from the style
of Italian Renaissance artists?
Answer:
Northern artists did not use fresco.
They painted illustrations for books and
wooden panel for altar pieces.
Question # 5:
What are some aspects of
Renaissance art that was not present in
medieval art?
Answer:
Perspective (depth or 3D), emphasis
on the human, emphasis on geometry
to create correct use of space & light,
& a focus on human anatomy.
Question # 6:
Why did Savonarola burn Renaissance
art, books, and clothing, in the city of
Florence?
Answer:
This was Savonarola’s way of
cleansing Florence of Sin.
Question # 7:
In what areas were Renaissance
women educated in mostly?
Answer:
Women were educated more in religion
& morals so that they could become
good mothers & wives.
Question # 8:
What event brought an end to the
Italian Wars?
Answer:
The sack of Rome in 1527 by the
armies & mercenaries of Spanish king
Charles I.
Question # 9:
When in life were Renaissance children
officially declared adults?
Answer:
When their father went before a judge
and formally freed them. Adulthood
varied from early teens to late
twenties.
Question # 10:
Some authors of the Renaissance began to write
in a different style, rather than in classical Latin.
What was that style called and name some
example of Authors who wrote in that style.
Answer:
Vernacular Literature
• Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales
• Dante – The Divine Comedy
• Christine de Pizan – The Book of the City
of Ladies
Question # 11:
For what reasons did Renaissance
parents arrange the marriages of their
children?
Answer:
Usaully to strengthen business or
family ties.
Question # 12:
What did Machiavelli believe about
political activity?
Answer:
Political activity should not be
restricted, or influenced by moral
principles. A prince should act on
behalf of the state (not himself)
Question # 13:
The humanist movement had it
greatest or most profound affect on
what aspect of life?
Answer:
EDUCATION
Through the focus on the humanities or
liberal arts.
Question # 14:
What is the High Renaissance and who
is associated with it?
Answer:
• The final stage of Italian Renaissance
Painting.
• Associated with 3 artistic giants: Leonardo
da Vinci, Michelangelo, & Raphael.
Question # 15:
When asked to paint the Sistine
Chapel, why did Michelangelo
recommend other painters to the
Pope?
Answer:
“This is not my trade.”
He told the Pope that he was a
sculptor, not a painter.