The Renaissance
Grade 7: rebirth of art and learning, Florence and Italy, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, the printing press, new scientific ideas.
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Questions
What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
- Discovery
- Exploration
- Rebirth
- Revolution
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RebirthThe Renaissance began in which part of Europe?
- Italy
- Russia
- Scandinavia
- Spain
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ItalyRenaissance thinkers admired the learning of which ancient peoples?
- Aztecs and Incas
- Egyptians and Persians
- Greeks and Romans
- Vikings and Celts
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Greeks and RomansRenaissance artists often tried to paint people and nature in a realistic way. (True or false?)
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TrueWhich Italian city was the main centre of the early Renaissance?
- Athens
- Florence
- London
- Paris
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FlorenceWhich rich Florentine family paid for many artists and builders?
- The Medici
- The Stuarts
- The Tudors
- The Windsors
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The MediciWho painted the Mona Lisa?
- Galileo
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
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Leonardo da VinciMichelangelo painted scenes on the ceiling of which chapel?
- Notre-Dame
- The Louvre
- The Sistine Chapel
- Westminster Abbey
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The Sistine ChapelLeonardo da Vinci filled notebooks with drawings of machines and the human body. (True or false?)
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TrueWho introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1450?
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Marco Polo
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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Johannes GutenbergHow did the printing press change Europe?
- Books became cheaper and ideas spread faster
- Books became rarer
- Fewer people learned to read
- Ideas spread more slowly
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Books became cheaper and ideas spread fasterWhich famous book was among the first printed by Gutenberg? (Answer out loud)
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The BibleCopernicus said that which body is at the centre of our solar system?
- Mars
- The Earth
- The Moon
- The Sun
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The SunMichelangelo invented the telescope. (True or false?)
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FalseWhich Italian scientist used a telescope to see the moons of Jupiter? (Answer out loud)
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Galileo GalileiMichelangelo carved a famous marble statue of a biblical hero. What is its name? (Answer out loud)
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David
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