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Renaissance Quiz #1

Quiz by Sarah Campbell

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  • Q1
    What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
    New Thinking
    Rebirth
    Redraw
    Renew
    30s
  • Q2
    Which ancient civilization did the people of the Renaissance get many ideas from?
    Greeks
    Romans
    Egyptians
    Minoans
    30s
  • Q3
    What did the Romans do that was beneficial to those in the Renaissance?
    Created a government that would be modeled in the Renaissance
    Distinguished military defenses that would be modeled in the Renaissance
    Created a public bath system for their people
    Wrote down their ideas so they could be learned by people in the future
    30s
  • Q4
    Why does the Roman empire fall?
    They realized they were too big and decided to divide the empire up into separate countries which effectively ended the empire
    They were invaded by many different tribes and were unable to protect their expansive borders
    They had a great plague that wiped out most of the people and they were unable to defend themselves
    They had a dictator that took control and decided to divide up all of the lands which made them easy to conquer
    30s
  • Q5
    What did people focus on after the fall of the Roman empire?
    Learning
    Protecting themselves
    They focused on all of these
    New technologies
    30s
  • Q6
    What time period came directly after the Roman Empire?
    Age of Exploration
    The Renaissance
    Modern History
    Middle Ages
    30s
  • Q7
    What was the strongest and most powerful organization in the Middle Ages?
    The Government
    The Catholic Church
    The Knights Templar
    The Crusaders
    30s
  • Q8
    How did the Catholic Church control life in the Middle Ages?
    All of these are true
    They put people in jail if they disagreed with them
    All of the teachers were priests
    They didn't allow new ideas
    30s
  • Q9
    During the Middle Ages, how old was the medical text that doctors were using?
    Ten years old
    A hundred years old
    Five thousand years old
    A thousand years old
    30s
  • Q10
    Who was thrown in jail because he questioned the church by asking to be allowed to do his own original research?
    Galen
    Roger Bacon
    Aristotle
    Leonardo da Vinci
    30s
  • Q11
    What is the name of the Greek scholar who wrote the medical textbook used in the Middle Ages?
    Socrates
    Galen
    Roger Bacon
    Aristotle
    30s
  • Q12
    What event made people start to question the authority of the Catholic Church?
    The Black Death
    The Crusades
    The War of Austrian Succession
    The Inquisition
    30s
  • Q13
    What was "reborn" during the Renaissance?
    The idea of questioning the world
    An interest in thinking for yourself
    An interest in knowledge
    All of these were reborn
    30s
  • Q14
    Where did the Renaissance begin?
    Italy
    China
    Greece
    England
    30s
  • Q15
    What are the approximate dates of the Renaissance?
    1400-1700 AD
    1300-1600 AD
    1200-1500 AD
    1100-1500 AD
    30s

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