Who gave the Renaissance its first candid picture of human nature with the idealism of medievalism and humanism stripped away.
Machiavelli
Erasmas
Cicero
Raphel
3 points
Question 2
During the 1200’s Popes would employ a military force to combat heresy and use this judicial process to eradicate heresy within the Western culture.
Inquisition
13th century eradication
War of the 1200’s
Catharism
3 points
Question 3
Who wrote Don Quizote?
Bennet
Cervantes
da Vinci
More
3 points
Question 4
What century was the Washington National Cathedral built in?
18th
19th
20th
17th
3 points
Question 5
According to the chart in your textbook, which of these types of literature occurs last?
Fables and Fabliaux
Romances
Troubadours
Epics
3 points
Question 6
This poem is about a warrior from southern Sweden who sails to his uncle’s court in Denmark where he slays the monster, Grendel.
Beowulf
Song of Roland
Boethius
Charles
3 points
Question 7
In the 13th century who also criticized reliance on deductive logic and metaphysical speculations and urged scientists to adopt an inductive investigation method involving observation and experimentation with appropriate instruments and methods, rather than mere reasoning?
Dante
Bacon
Aquinas
Augustine
3 points
Question 8
Michelangelo’s statue standing as a representation of Humanism as it’s proud self.
Red Virgin
David
The Captive
Adoration of the Lamb
3 points
Question 9
Perhaps the best example of the early Gothic style of architecture is found in which city?
Charles
Paris
Beauvais
Denis
3 points
Question 10
During this time period there was literature for town dwellers as well as country folks. This type of literature was satirical poems depicting ordinary people in events of everyday life with vigorous and coarse humor while ridiculing conventional morality.
Fabliaux
Comedy
Romance
Tympanums
3 points
Question 11
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales in the 14th century?
Charlemagne
Chaucer
Michelangelo
Da Vinci
3 points
Question 12
One important feature of medieval intellectual life was expanding interest in education, which culminated in a distinctive new institution the ____________
Monasteries
Romanesque Architecture
University
Gothic Architecture
3 points
Question 13
Which word best describes the culture that gave rise to Romanesque architecture?
Synthesis
Hierarchy
Instability
Reformational
3 points
Question 14
Coexisting with feudalism on the lowest level of land division was the ___________system.
Communism
Manorialism
Socialism
Democracy
3 points
Question 15
By establishing order and stability in his lands, Charlemagne prepared the basis for a ninth-century flowering of cultural activity often termed the____________.
Pepin Dynasty
European Dynasty
Carolingian Renaissance
Pope’s Renaissance
3 points
Question 16
The Carolingians also stimulated artistic activity. One of these was the development by painters that involved pictures within manuscript pages called _______________.
Illustrated
Carolingian
Illuminations
Romanesque
3 points
Question 17
Consisted a hero of the Renaissance, who wrote Utopia. Lived from 1478-1535.
Erasmus
Botticelli
More
Machiavelli
3 points
Question 18
According to the chart in your Textbook. What are the years of the Renaissance?
1200-1500
1400-1600
1350-1600
1300-1756
3 points
Question 19
Who wrote the Divine Comedy, which delineated the options available to mankind?
Dante
Chaucer
Petrarch
Shakespeare
3 points
Question 20
Who wished to give the church a new choir and ambulatory, one that would be full of light—symbolic of the presence of God, through Gothic architecture?
Da Vinci
Abbot Suger
Robert Louis
St. Michael
3 points
Question 21
The shift from the medieval to the modern world can be described simply as the shift from a vertical to a horizontal model of reality.
True
False
2 points
Question 22
The so-called Children’s Crusade was the only crusade that was “successful” in any meaningful sense.
True
False
2 points
Question 23
Despite the authority of the medieval Catholic church, there was a tremendous amount of diversity within medieval literature.
True
False
2 points
Question 24
Romanesque Architecture developed from the Gothic Architecture.
True
False
2 points
Question 25
Gothic cathedrals were considerably darker than Romanesque cathedrals, and would develop before Romanesque cathedrals.
True
False
2 points
Question 26
The Arabic Muslims had destroyed all of the Greek writings of antiquity making it difficult for the Crusaders to find.
True
False
2 points
Question 27
The heliocentric model of the universe was developed by Bacon.
True
False
2 points
Question 28
Not many churches were built during the 11th century because of the lack of money.
True
False
2 points
Question 29
During the period between 1000–1350, the economy of Europe did not develop much because of little technology being developed.
True
False
2 points
Question 30
Religious architecture was the primary European artistic activity.
True
False