Chap 24 Test Study Guide
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_____1. Why did Italy become the birthplace of the Renaissance?
_____2. Why did peasants and nobles move from manors to towns?
_____3. Why did Feudalism grow weaker at the end of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance?
_____4. Most art in the medieval period dealt with what theme?
_____5. How did Renaissance literature differed from medieval literature in terms of the language used?
_____6 How was the city in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia governed?
_____7. Why did Church officials begin to censor certain published works during the Renaissance?
_____8. Which of the following was the first major work of Spanish literature?
_____9. Which of the following were the new subjects that emerged when secular learning became popular?
_____10. How did wealthy merchants and bankers helped to promote learning and the arts?
_____11. Italy was a better place for commercial growth than other medieval European countries because
_____12. A style of writing that uses ridicule or sarcasm to criticize vice or folly is known as
_____13. Which of the following was NOT a change brought about by Gutenberg’s printing press?
_____14. A poem made up of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern is called a
_____15. Which Renaissance literary work is an example of “picaresque”?
_____16.What was the term for the great cultural revival that began in Italy in the 1300s.
_____17. What were the wealthy people called who supported the arts and learning in Italy during the Renaissance.
_____18. What was the cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works.
_____19. What was the term for the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs?
_____20. What is the term for the belief that the individual is more important than the larger community.
_____21 During the Renaissance, church officials did what to many works of literature in order to prevent people from reading criticisms of the Church?
_____22. What is the term for a design etched on a metal plate with a needle and acid that was used in printing art by Renaissance artists?
_____23. In his book In Praise of Folly, Erasmus uses what literary tone or style to criticize the Church?
_____24. William Shakespeare wrote plays and a kind of poem made up of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern called what?
_____25. The discovery of the rules of a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface, is credited to architect Filippo Brunelleschi and is called by what term?.