The Renaissance

Worksheet: The Renaissance

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Answer the questions.

1. What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
   a) Discoveryb) Explorationc) Rebirthd) Revolution
2. The Renaissance began in which part of Europe?
   a) Italyb) Russiac) Scandinaviad) Spain
3. Renaissance thinkers admired the learning of which ancient peoples?
   a) Aztecs and Incasb) Egyptians and Persiansc) Greeks and Romansd) Vikings and Celts
4. Renaissance artists often tried to paint people and nature in a realistic way.
   a) Trueb) False
5. Which Italian city was the main centre of the early Renaissance?
   a) Athensb) Florencec) Londond) Paris
6. Which rich Florentine family paid for many artists and builders?
   a) The Medicib) The Stuartsc) The Tudorsd) The Windsors
7. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
   a) Galileob) Johannes Gutenbergc) Leonardo da Vincid) Michelangelo
8. Michelangelo painted scenes on the ceiling of which chapel?
   a) Notre-Dameb) The Louvrec) The Sistine Chapeld) Westminster Abbey
9. Leonardo da Vinci filled notebooks with drawings of machines and the human body.
   a) Trueb) False
10. Who introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1450?
    a) Johannes Gutenbergb) Leonardo da Vincic) Marco Polod) Nicolaus Copernicus
11. How did the printing press change Europe?
    a) Books became cheaper and ideas spread fasterb) Books became rarerc) Fewer people learned to readd) Ideas spread more slowly
12. Which famous book was among the first printed by Gutenberg?
13. Copernicus said that which body is at the centre of our solar system?
    a) Marsb) The Earthc) The Moond) The Sun
14. Michelangelo invented the telescope.
    a) Trueb) False
15. Which Italian scientist used a telescope to see the moons of Jupiter?
16. Michelangelo carved a famous marble statue of a biblical hero. What is its name?