1. The Italian Renaissance
Review Questions

2. 1. Which of the following cities played a key role in the trade between Europe and the Near East?
Bologna
Siena
Florence
Milan
Venice

3. 2. Which of the following cities had uninterrupted trade with the Near East throughout the Middle Ages, maintaining a vibrant urban society?
Lyon
Pisa
Paris
Naples
Avignon

4. 3. Social strife and competition for political power became so intense within the cities that most evoled into:
despotisms.
Feudal states.
Oligarchies.
Democracies.
Mini-monarchies.

5. 4. Which of the following is the correct list of the four major social groups that existed within Florence?
nobles and merchants, clergy, middle-burgher, and lower economic classes
Nobles and merchants, new merchant class, clergy, and lower economic classes
Kings and queens, new merchant class, clergy, and lower economic classes.
Nobles and merchants, new merchant class, middle-burgher, and lower economic classes
Clergy, nobility, merchants, and serfs

6. 5. The first humanists were:
Orators and poets.
Politicians and their secretaries.
Farmers and blacksmiths.
Historians and musicians.
Clergy.

7. 6. He was known as the “Father of Humanism”:
Giovanni Boccaccio
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
Guarino da Verona
Cosimo de’ Medici

8. 7. All of the following are true of Renaissance art except:
Art tended to be abstract and formulaic.
Art emphatically embraced the natural world and human emotions.
Works were given rational, even mathematical order.
Artwork reflected symmetry and proportion reflected a belief in the harmony of the universe.
Art often blended classical and Christian influences.

9. 8. Who is considered the “Father of Renaissance Painting?”
Donatello
Raphael
Michelangelo
Da Vinci
Giotto

10. 9. All of the following were great masters of the High Renaissance EXCEPT:
Leonardo da Vinci.
Raphael.
Vincent Van Gogh.
Michelangelo.
Titian.

11. 10. His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa.
Donatello
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Masaccio