Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Why
was the time right for the
N o rt h e rn Renaissance to begin?
By
1450, the bubonic plague had ended in northern Europe. Also, the Hundred Years’ War
between France and England was ending. This allowed new ideas from Italy to spread to northern
Europe. They were quickly adopted. Here too, rulers and merchants used their money to sponsor
artists. But the northern Renaissance had a difference. Educated people combined classical learning
with interest in religious ideas.
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Renaissance ideas were able to
spread to Northern Europe because
a. | peace and stability had returned to
Northern Europe | c. | people were dying
from the plague and looking for a new life | b. | the hundred years was going
on | d. | of the bubonic plague in
Italy |
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How was the Renaissance in the north different from the Renaissance in
the South?
a. | the south was less advanced than the
north | c. | the north rejected religious
teaching | b. | there was no difference between the north and the
south | d. | the north combined classical education with
religion |
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What
ideas about art developed
in Nort h e rn Europe?
The
new ideas of Italian art moved to the north, where artists began to use them. Major artists appeared
in parts of Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Drer painted religious subjects and
realistic landscapes. Holbein, Van Eyck, and Bruegel painted lifelike portraits and scenes of
peasant life. They revealed much about the times. They began to use oil-based paints.
Oils became very popular, and their use spread to Italy.
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Oil based paints were
a. | first used in the
south | c. | were never used in the
south | b. | first used in the north | d. | were never used in the north |
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From the passage above we can
infer that painting in the north was
a. | abstract | c. | always about religion | b. | realistic | d. | immoral |
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Who specialized in painting of
common people?
a. | Holbein | c. | Bruegel | b. | Van Eyck | d. | Da Vinci |
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What
did northern writers
write?
Writers of the northern Renaissance combined humanism with a deep Christian faith. They
urged reforms in the Church. They tried to make people more devoted to God. They also wanted society
to be more fair. In England, Thomas More wrote a book about Utopia, an imaginary ideal society where
greed, war, and conflict do not exist.
William Shakespeare is often called the greatest
playwright of all time. His plays showed a brilliant command of the English language. They also show
a deep understanding of people and how they interact with one another.
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6.
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The word that means an ideal
perfect society is
a. | humanism | c. | Renaissance | b. | utopia | d. | secularism |
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What did the Northern writers
write about
a. | war and
empire | c. | people and
Christianity | b. | how to acquire and maintain power | d. | ancient Rome |
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William Shakespeare had a deep
understanding of
a. | militay tactics and
language | c. | war and the
English language | b. | human behavior and language | d. | movies, television language and human
interaction |
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Why was the printing
press such an important development?
One reason that learning spread so rapidly during the Renaissance was the
invention of movable type. The Chinese had invented the process of carving characters onto
wooden blocks. They then arranged them in words, inked the blocks, and pressed them against paper to
print pages.
In 1440, a German, Johann Gutenberg, used this same practice to invent his
printing press. He produced his first book—the Gutenberg Bible— in 1455 on
this press. The technology then spread rapidly. By 1500, presses in Europe had printed nearly 10
million books.
Printing made it easier to make many copies of a book. As a result, written
works became available far and wide. Books were printed in English, French, Spanish, Italian, or
German. More people began to read. The Bible was a popular book. After reading the Bible, some people
formed new ideas about Christianity. These ideas were different from the official teachings of the
Church.
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Who invented the printing
press
a. | Johann
Gutenberg | c. | Niccoli
Machavelli | b. | Johann Shakespeare | d. | Thomas Moore |
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What was the first printed book
in Europe
a. | Shakespeares
plays | c. | the Johann Gutenberg
dictionary | b. | the Bible | d. | the Johann
Gutenberg encyclopedia |
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The printing press
a. | helped to spread knowledge and new
ideas accross Europe | c. | caused a lack of
interest in Science that helped the church to grow | b. | helped the Catholic Church to control the countries of
Northern Europe | d. | none of these are
correct |
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1. Renaissance painters in
Flanders, as in Italy, tended to produce work that was
a. | realistic. | c. | highly spiritual | b. | idealistic. | d. | formal and tightly structured. |
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The first use of movable type
was in
a. | Greece | c. | Italy. | b. | Germany | d. | China |
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14.
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Which of the following
correctly matches the author with something he wrote?
a. | Thomas More and Utopia | c. | William Shakespeare and The Praise of Folly | b. | Franois Rabelais and King Lear | d. | Desiderius Erasmus and Gargantua and Pantagruel |
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