Deck 1: The Renaissance: A Journey Through History and Artistic Achievements

Question 1

The Renaissance, a movement which stressed the ideas of the classical world had its origin in……………

A)germany
B)italy
C)france
D)spain

Answer 1

italy

Question 2

_____________brought about a transition from the religious approach to the humanistic approach to the problems of the world.

A)reformation
B)renaissance
C)enlightenment
D)romanticism

Answer 2

renaissance

Question 3

In the middle of the 15th Century, ……………was successful in operating the first printing press with movable types at Mainz in Germany.

A)john gutenberg
B)caxton
C)nicholas v
D)peter burke

Answer 3

john gutenberg

Question 4

Before the invention of the…………., Knowledge was the privilege of the wealthy people

A)gun powder
B)mariner's compass
C)printing press
D)computer

Question 5

_____________…actually came to be known as the "Athens of Italy".

A)cambridge
B)florence
C)venice
D)milan

Question 6

Machiavelli was the great political writer of ……………..

A)italy
B)france
C)germany
D)england

Question 7

_____________ was called "the Morning star of Renaissance"

A)dante
B)bacon
C)john wycliff
D)thomas more

Question 8

. _____________was the Italian poet who is considered as the father of humanism.

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)montesquieu
D)petrarch

Question 9

. _____________'s well-known work is the "Mona Lisa"

A)boccaccio
B)petrarch
C)machiavelli
D)leonardo davinci

Question 10

"The Last Supper" is connected with …………………

A)leonardo davinci
B)voltaire
C)diderot
D)condorcet

Question 11

Whose most excellent painting is 'The Last Judgment'?

A)michelangelo
B)leonardo da vinci
C)raphael
D)dederot

Question 12

Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in ……………..

A)holland
B)italy
C)england
D)germany

Question 13

'Praise of Folly' was written by ………..

A)erasmus
B)thomas more
C)chaucer
D)boccaccio

Question 14

Canterbury Tales was written by ……………..

A)shakespeare
B)erasmus
C)chaucer
D)boccaccio

Question 15

_____________. was the "Father of Italian Prose".

A)shakespeare
B)boccaccio
C)chaucer
D)erasmus

Question 16

St. Peters church in Rome, the huge dome of which was designed by …………………….was the finest example of the Renaissance architecture.

A)michael angelo
B)leonardo da vinci
C)raphael
D)diderot

Question 17

'Paradise Los't is the work of …………………..

A)milton
B)boccaccio
C)chaucer
D)william langland

Question 18

Galileo was an …………… astronomer

A)italian
B)french
C)english
D)german

Question 19

The term Renaissance was first used by the Italian artist and critic …………in his book 'The Lives of the Artists'

A)giorgio vasari
B)robert fulton
C)thomas newcomend
D)corneille

Question 20

The Florentine School and the Venetian School were two important schools of painting that flourished during the renaissance period in …………..

A)england
B)germany
C)scotland
D)italy

Question 21

Three eminent painters of renaissance period, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo and Raphael, belonged to the ………………….school of painting founded by Giotto

A)florentine
B)venetian
C)cambridge
D)oxford

Question 22

_____________..was "the Father of Modern Science"

A)issac newton
B)descartes
C)roger bacon
D)thucidides

Question 23

_____________asserted that science depends upon observation of facts.

A)vico
B)descartes
C)roger bacon
D)galileo

Question 24

The English Physician, …………………..discovered how blood circulates from the heart through arteries to different parts of the body and comes back to the heart through veins.

A)william harvey
B)adam smith
C)david hume
D)immanuel kant