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| 10842585551 | The Italian Renaissance was primarily | a recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture | 0 | |
| 10842585552 | The word "Renaissance" means | rebirth | 1 | |
| 10842585553 | The wealth of the norther Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from | trade | 2 | |
| 10842585554 | According to Jacob Burkhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented | a distinct break form the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world | 3 | |
| 10842585555 | The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was | Medici | 4 | |
| 10842585556 | What was the commercial and military league set up off the north coast of Germany? | Hansestic League | 5 | |
| 10842585557 | Two key areas of Renaissance technological innovations were | mining and metalworking, including manufacture of firearms | 6 | |
| 10842585558 | The author of the Book of Courtier, a handbook on courtly manners, was | Baldassare Casstiglione | 7 | |
| 10842585559 | Castiglione's The Courtier was a | very popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats | 8 | |
| 10842585560 | the achievements of the Italian Renaissance were the products of | an elite movement, involving small numbers of wealthy patrons. artists and intellectuals | 9 | |
| 10842585561 | The aristocracy of the sixteenth century was | to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages | 10 | |
| 10842585562 | Banquets during the Renaissance | were used to express wealth and power of a aristocratic family | 11 | |
| 10842585563 | The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was | overwhelmingly made up of peasants | 12 | |
| 10842585564 | Western Europe in the Renaissance saw | a decline in serfdom | 13 | |
| 10842585565 | Slavery in Renaissance Italy | saw slaves from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servant and as skilled workers | 14 | |
| 10842585566 | The reintroduction of slavery in the fourteenth century occurred largely as a result of | the shortage of workers created by the Black Death | 15 | |
| 10842585567 | Which of the following statements best describes the marriage in Renaissance Italy? | Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances | 16 | |
| 10842585568 | Marriages in Renaissance Italy | were an economic necessity of life involving complicated family negotiations | 17 | |
| 10842585569 | By the fifteenth century, Italy was | dominated by five major regional independent powers | 18 | |
| 10842585570 | Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling woman was | Isabella d'Este | 19 | |
| 10842585571 | Ferderigo da Montefeltro of Urbino was | an example of a skilled, intelligent, independent Italian warrior prince | 20 | |
| 10842585572 | The Peace of Lodi served to | maintain peace between the Italian states for 40 years | 21 | |
| 10842585573 | Machiavelli's The Prince advocated that a successful ruler must | Act without scruples for the good of the state. | 22 | |
| 10842585574 | Italian Renaissance humanism in the early fifteenth century, above all else | was based on the study of the Greco-Roman classics | 23 | |
| 10842585575 | In the late fifteenth century, Italy became a battleground for the competing interests of | Spain and france | 24 | |
| 10842585576 | Who said, "Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language" | Petrarch | 25 | |
| 10842585577 | The Corpus Hermeticum | contained writings on the occult as well as theological and philosophical speculations | 26 | |
| 10842585578 | Pico della Mirandola's Oration in the Dignity of Man stated that humans | could be whatever they chose or willed | 27 | |
| 10842585579 | A subject of particular interest to fifteenth-century humanists was | the greek language | 28 | |
| 10842585580 | The liberal education taught by Vittorino de Feltre | contained as it's primary goal the creation of well-rounded, virtuous and ethical citizens | 29 | |
| 10842585581 | In Concerning Character, Pietro Paolo Vergerio argued that liberal studies led to | true freedom | 30 | |
| 10842585582 | Humanism' main effect on the writing of history was | the secularization of historiography and the explanation of change over time | 31 | |
| 10842585583 | Johannes Guttenberg was a key developer of | the movable type printing press | 32 | |
| 10842585584 | The development of printing in the fifteenth century | ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society | 33 | |
| 10842585585 | Italian artists in the fifteenth century began to | experiment in areas of perspective | 34 | |
| 10842585586 | Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of David | Donatello and Michelangelo | 35 | |
| 10842585587 | The Renaissance figure in the following list who was NOT a leading painter was a) Raphael b) Michelangelo c) Petrarch d) Leonardo e) Botticelli | c) Petrarch | 36 | |
| 10842585588 | The painter of the Rome's Sistine Chapel ceiling was | Michelangleo | 37 | |
| 10842585589 | Who painted "The Last Supper"? | Leonardo | 38 | |
| 10842585590 | Which of the following is not true of Northern Renaissance artists? | they valued the secular human form as the primary subject of painting | 39 | |
| 10842585591 | The "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth century in Europe | were focused upon the acquisition and expansion of power | 40 | |
| 10842585592 | The result of the Hundreds' Year War: a) reinvigorated and strengthened the French monarchy b) caused economic turmoil in England c) temporarily strengthened the nobility in England d) a and b e) all of the above | d) a and b reinvigorated and strengthened the French monarchy & caused economic turmoil in England | 41 | |
| 10842585593 | Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain | saw Muslim power vanish from the peninsula | 42 | |
| 10842585594 | All of the following monarchs were successful in continuing the centralization of their "new monarchies" except a) Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire b) Henry VII of England c) Ferdinand of Aragon in Spain d) Louis XI the Spider of France e) Isabella of Castile | a) Maximilian I of the a Holy Roman Empire | 43 | |
| 10842585595 | After 1438, the position of the Holy Roman Emperor remained in the hands of the | Habsburg dynasty | 44 | |
| 10842585596 | The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the | Ottoman Turks | 45 | |
| 10842585597 | The Ottoman Turkish sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 was | Mehmet II | 46 | |
| 10842585598 | John Wycliffe criticized the Church for | not letting people read the Bible in the vernacular | 47 | |
| 10842585599 | The Renaissance popes did all of the following except: | attempt to return to the papacy to more humble times | 48 | |
| 10842585600 | The Renaissance papacy | was often seen as corrupt and debauched, as evidence of Alexander VI | 49 |
