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The Renaissance

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  • Q1
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Wrote The Canterbury Tales
    Wrote The Tempest
    Wrote Divine Comedy
    Wrote The Prince
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  • Q2
    Created the sculpture David
    Raphael
    Michelangelo
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Lorenzo de Medici
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  • Q3
    Michelangelo
    Painted The School of Athens
    Painted the Sistene Chapel
    Painted The Last Supper
    Painted the Rhinoceros
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  • Q4
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Wrote Divine Comedy
    Wrote The Tempest
    Wrote The Canterbury Tales
    Wrote The Prince
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  • Q5
    Venetian merchant who travelled to China
    Cosimo de Medici
    Lorenzo de Medici
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Marco Polo
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  • Q6
    Dante Alighieri
    Wrote The Canterbury Tales
    Wrote The Prince
    Wrote Divine Comedy
    Wrote The Tempest
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  • Q7
    Painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa
    Raphael
    Michelangelo
    Leonardo da Vinci
    The other Ninja Turtle
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  • Q8
    Leoardo da Vinci
    Painted the Sistene Chapel
    Created the statue of David
    Painted The Rhinoceros
    Studied the human body and made detailed drawings
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  • Q9
    Johannes Gutenberg
    Invented a flying machine
    Invented the Printing Press
    Studied the human body and made detailed drawings
    Wrote The Prince
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  • Q10
    Francesco Petrarch
    Wrote The Prince
    Father of Renaissance Humanism
    Created the idea of Scholasticism
    Painted the Mona Lisa
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  • Q11
    Most famous playwright of the English Renaissance
    William Shakespeare
    Francisco Petrach
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Dante Alighieri
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  • Q12
    William Shakespeare
    Wrote the plays Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
    Wrote The Canterbury Tales
    Wrote Divine Comedy
    Wrote the Prince
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  • Q13
    Lorenzo d'Medici
    As a wealthy banker, supported artists throughout Florence
    Created the idea of Scholasticism
    Stated that it is better to be feared than loved
    Father of Renaissance Humanism
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  • Q14
    Allowed education and knowledge to quickly spread through Europe
    The Printing Press
    Humanism
    Scholasticism
    The Bible
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  • Q15
    A city with its own independent government that controls the surrounding land
    Feudalism
    Empire
    City-state
    Manor
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  • Q16
    A time of renewed interest in the classics and in learning and art
    The Renaissance
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  • Q17
    A way of thinking that gives importance to the individual and to human society
    Humanism
    Confucianism
    Schoasticism
    The Renaissance
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  • Q18
    Stated that as a ruler, it is better to be feared than loved
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Dante Alighieri
    Francisco Petrach
    Lorenzo de Medici
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  • Q19
    His invention led to a quick spread of ideas and an increase in education in Europe.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Johannes Gutenberg
    William Shakespeare
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  • Q20
    The term "classics" refers to which of the following?
    Ancient Greek and Roman art, literature, and history
    The time period between the Ancient Times and the Modern Times
    People of the Renaissance, such as Michelangelo and da Vinci
    Books such as The Canterbury Tales, Divine Comedy, and the Bible.
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