# 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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- Subject: History & geography
- Level: Grade 7
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. What does the word "Renaissance" mean? (Discovery / Exploration / Rebirth / Revolution)
   Answer: Rebirth
2. The Renaissance began in which part of Europe? (Italy / Russia / Scandinavia / Spain)
   Answer: Italy
3. Renaissance thinkers admired the learning of which ancient peoples? (Aztecs and Incas / Egyptians and Persians / Greeks and Romans / Vikings and Celts)
   Answer: Greeks and Romans
4. Renaissance artists often tried to paint people and nature in a realistic way.
   Answer: True
5. Which Italian city was the main centre of the early Renaissance? (Athens / Florence / London / Paris)
   Answer: Florence
6. Which rich Florentine family paid for many artists and builders? (The Medici / The Stuarts / The Tudors / The Windsors)
   Answer: The Medici
7. Who painted the Mona Lisa? (Galileo / Johannes Gutenberg / Leonardo da Vinci / Michelangelo)
   Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
8. Michelangelo painted scenes on the ceiling of which chapel? (Notre-Dame / The Louvre / The Sistine Chapel / Westminster Abbey)
   Answer: The Sistine Chapel
9. Leonardo da Vinci filled notebooks with drawings of machines and the human body.
   Answer: True
10. Who introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1450? (Johannes Gutenberg / Leonardo da Vinci / Marco Polo / Nicolaus Copernicus)
   Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
11. How 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)
   Answer: Books became cheaper and ideas spread faster
12. Which famous book was among the first printed by Gutenberg?
   Answer: The Bible
13. Copernicus said that which body is at the centre of our solar system? (Mars / The Earth / The Moon / The Sun)
   Answer: The Sun
14. Michelangelo invented the telescope.
   Answer: False
15. Which Italian scientist used a telescope to see the moons of Jupiter?
   Answer: Galileo Galilei
16. Michelangelo carved a famous marble statue of a biblical hero. What is its name?
   Answer: David