AP Euro (Renaissance and Reformation) Questions and Answers
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B. - Answer-The term "Renaissance", a rebirth, is misleading becuase
a) The Quattrocento gave rise to an elite culture
b) the Middle Ages saw the development of Europe's Institutions
c) It borrowed from the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome
d) it devel...
AP Euro (Renaissance and
Reformation)
B. - Answer-The term "Renaissance", a rebirth, is misleading becuase
a) The Quattrocento gave rise to an elite culture
b) the Middle Ages saw the development of Europe's Institutions
c) It borrowed from the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome
d) it developed outside the heart of Europe in the Italian Peninsula
e) It was supported, in part, by patronage from despots
B. - Answer-"Geography is destiny" proved true for the Italians of the 14th and 15th
century for all the following reasons EXCEPT
a) their proximity to the Mediterranean
b) Their establishment of overland trade with Asia
c) Their role as "middlemen" of Europe
d) Their ability to adapt to victimization by more united peoples
e) Their seagoing trade with the eastern Mediterranean
E. - Answer-Which of these city-states is said to have been the cultural center of the
Renaissance and has been compared to Ancient Athens for its burst of creativity
over a relatively short time span?
a) Venice
b) Milan
c) Rome
d) Genoa
e) Florence
D. - Answer-The powerful middle-class that developed in the independant city-states
of Renaissance Italy was involved in all of the following EXCEPT
a) Making profitable loans to popes and merchants
b) financing commercial ventures
c) patronizing the arts
d)encouraginfg manorialism
e) controlling the governments of city-states
C. - Answer-Which Florence dynasty of merchants, bankers, and despots used its
wealth to patronize the great creative artists of the day?
a) Petrarch
b) Bellini
c) Medici
d) Sforza
e) Condotierri
B. - Answer-Which of these is NOT valued by Renaissance thinkers?
a) Man as the measure of all things
b) the cloistered life
c) a life of activity
, d) Excellence in all human endeavors
e) Living up to one's potential
A. - Answer-Before the Renaissance, who was the greatest patron of the arts?
a) The Church
b) The middle class
c) European Monarchs
d) The nobility
e) city-state governments
E. - Answer-The sculpture of the Renaissance differed from that of the Middle Ages
on all of the following ways EXCEPT
a) the forms were anatomically proportional
b) the faces expressed emotion
c) the figures expressed animation
d) the artists prided themselves on the individuality of style
e) the subject matter was non-religious
C. - Answer-All of the following were Renaissance painters EXCEPT
a) Boticelli
b) Raphael
c) Bruni
d) Buonaroti
e) Massacio
B. - Answer-The so-called "pagan" humanism of the Italian Renaissance differed
from the so-called "Christian" Renaissance primarily because of
a) Italian Renaissance art depicted only classical themes
b) Northern Renaissance literature drew upon the Greek and Hebrew texts of the
Bible and writings of the Church fathers
c) Italian Renaissance writers were often anti-religious
d) The merchant-princes who ruled the Italian city-states resisted the influence of the
church in civic affairs
e) The Northern churches were the biggest patrons of the arts
E. - Answer-Which of the following was not an important development of the
Northern Renaissance?
a) The use of the first movable-type printing press in Europe
b) The formulation of the Heliocentric view
c) The establishment of a brillian English vernacular language
d) Mysticism's assertion that an individual could commune directly with God, unaided
by the Church
e) The invention of the banking system
C. - Answer-Which of the following is not considered a long-term cause of the
Protestant Reformation?
a) The declining Prestige of the papacy
b) The German Mystics who emphasized individual communion with God
c) The activities of the Jesuits
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