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Which figure of the Renaissance was very influential on Martin Luther, because he recommended a return to the simple ways of early Christianity and rejected church worldliness?
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Jan Van Eyck
Leonardo DaVinci
Desiderius Erasmus
Francesco Petrarch
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Who was the author of the Italian Renaissance book “The Prince.” This book was a highly controversial (and worldly) take on Renaissance era politics.
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Dante Aligheri
Nicollo Machiavelli
Silvio Burlesconi
Baldasarre Castiglioni
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Which figure of the Renaissance was very influential on Martin Luther, because he recommended a return to the simple ways of early Christianity and rejected church worldliness?
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Who was the author of the Italian Renaissance book “The Prince.” This book was a highly controversial (and worldly) take on Renaissance era politics.
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Who was the Renaissance era scientist who scientifically proved earlier theories which had said that the earth rotated around the sun. He was called to the inquisition and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under casual house arrest.
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Who was the painter who painted the Sistine chapel ceiling in the Vatican in Rome.
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This Florentine Poet and scholar began a library which collected classical (Greek and Roman) works. He popularized the humanist approach to learning. He is sometimes called “The father of the Renaissance.”
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This Dutch Humanist was among the first in Europe to use reason and humanist ideas to attack the corruption of the Catholic Church. He wrote a book “The Praise of Folly” about it. He was considered one of the great scholars of the Renaissance.
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This German developed the printing press, an invention which would have tremendous consequences for the Renaissance (and all of world history).
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This Italian prince from Florence, was known as “The Magnificent” because he governed wisely and used the wealth of his famous family to become a patron of some of the great artists of the Renaissance.
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The founder of the Society of Jesus which are known as the “Jesuits”.
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Holy Roman Emperor who’s threat against the Rome caused the Pope not to grant Henry VIII his divorce request, and who ultimately granted German princes the freedom to select Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism at the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.
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Henry VIII’s 1st wife who was unable to bear him a male heir, and caused him to break from Rome as a result.
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Monarch of England following the sickly son of Henry VIII, this woman tried to eliminate the Church of England and return England to Catholicism. She killed many Protestants during her reign.
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Which of the following books of the Renaissance had an important development on the Italian language because it unified its various dialects due to how many people read it?
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Which of the following artists was part of the Northern Renaissance that flourished in not in Italy but instead in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands and England?
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All of the following Christian denominations would be considered “Protestant” except:
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The church of England is also known as:
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What was the main reason that English King Henry VIII petitioned the Pope for a divorce from his 1st wife?
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The highly influential book that John Calvin wrote was called:
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John Calvin was of _______________nationality, but his religious movement was based in _________________.
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Which of the following was a major difference between the Protestant church and the Catholic Church?
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The modern “Episcopalian” church is an off-shoot of this Protestant founded church:
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The major council held by Catholics to provide an answer to the Protestant Reformation was called:
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The term “Renaissance” literally means:
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Which Renaissance era scientist discovered gravity?
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Which of the following was true of the Church of England?
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The Renaissance began in_____________.
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Which of the following historical events most directly involved Martin Luther?
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The 95 thesis were written to condemn:
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Which of the following terms does not fit with the period of the Renaissance?
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Which change to their teaching did the Roman Catholic Church adopt at the end of the Reformation?
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The Jesuits were a part of the _____________ faith.
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Which protestant reformer most stressed the idea that God has chosen some people for salvation (predestination)?
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What language did Martin Luther translate the Bible into?
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True or False: Martin Luther supported the Peasant revolt in Germany in 1524 when they began to rise up to fight against serfdom and oppression.
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True or False: Lutherans, Calvinists, and Anglicans made it so their clergy would be allowed to marry.
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True or False: After the first 20 years of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church gave up on fighting the Protestant movement.
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True or False: Although the term “humanist” today sometimes means a secular person who doesn’t believe in God, in the Renaissance it simply meant that a person wanted to study the humanities (art, history, grammar, literature etc…)
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Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Who made the famous statue in Florence Italy entitled "David"?
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In the 1600's who painted "Night Watch" and "Anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp"?