Ch.20 Test Bank Answers The Renaissance In Medieval Context - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 20
Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 01
1) What is the best characterization of the Renaissance compared to the Middle Ages?
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a. An abrupt departure from the medieval world
b. A culmination of the medieval world
c. Identical to the medieval world
d. Different only in Italy
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 02
2) What events effectively shattered medieval unity? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Renaissance in Medieval Context
Page reference: 608
a. The Protestant Reformation
b. The application of logic to faith
c. The idea of heresy
d. The discovery of the New World
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 03
3) What best describes the Renaissance economy?
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a. Most capital was in the hands of rural landowners
b. Only the aristocracy had money and power
c. Lower workers earned their fair due after the Black Death
d. Capital was unequally distributed due to the power of guilds
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 04
4) On what might the Renaissance wealthy spend their money specifically to showcase their status? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Economies
Page reference: 611
a. Commissioned art
b. Eastern spices
c. Quality wines
d. Anonymous donations
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 05
5) What was the primary focus of humanism?
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a. The value of the individual
b. One’s place in the machinery of life
c. The supremacy of the social elite
d. Financial gain
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 06
6) In what way could humanists best appreciate human experience?
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a. Learning a new language
b. Spending time in nature
c. Studying the liberal arts
d. Obtaining a civic position
Title: Chapter 20 Question 07
7) The scholar __________ is usually considered the founder of humanism.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 08
8) In what sense did humanism develop out of the disasters of the fourteenth century?
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a. The world made sense and could be properly understood
b. The world was unequivocally dark and depressing
c. In spite of calamities, the present offered opportunities for celebration
d. Nothing mattered at all so appetites could run rampant
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 09
9) What notable contribution did humanists make to the appreciation of Classical culture?
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a. They recovered and reintroduced ancient texts
b. They were the first to be interested in it
c. They subordinated it to Christian learning
d. They made no notable contribution
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 10
What feature of this fresco best exemplifies new Renaissance artistic trends?
Page reference: 616
a. The two-dimensionality of the halo
b. The simplification of the trees
c. The exaggeration of the cliff
d. The naturalism of the cloak folds
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 11
11) How did Renaissance scholars contribute to publicizing the Classical literary canon? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Classical Culture
Page reference: 617-618
a. They established lending libraries
b. They translated texts into Greek
c. They copied manuscripts on an unprecedented scale
d. They located ancient texts in monastic libraries
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 20 Question 12
12) The invention of the printing press by ___________ enabled the rapid spread of written works.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 13
What is noteworthy about early printed works?
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a. They imitated handmade manuscripts
b. They lacked decorative elements
c. They displayed newly invented fonts
d. They propagated only non-Latin texts
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 14
14) What was the Renaissance reaction to the medieval past?
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a. Automatic adoption
b. Insistent rejection
c. Devout adoration
d. Indifference
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 20 Question 15
15) The architect ___________ posed the first direct challenge to Gothic architecture with his creation of the domed cathedral of Florence.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 16
16) What best expresses the style of Renaissance architecture compared to Gothic?
Page reference: 620
a. Simple geometric shapes
b. Pointed arches and spires
c. Stained glass windows
d. Excessive statuary
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 17
17) What was one negative aspect of humanism?
Page reference: 620
a. Interest in the liberal arts
b. Glorification of the Classical past
c. Inherent elitism
d. Democratic appeal
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 18
18) What remained the dominant institution in European life through the Renaissance?
Page reference: 620
a. The Church
b. Civic bureaucracies
c. Guilds
d. Universities
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 20 Question 19
19) The humanist author Giovanni Boccaccio’s greatest work is titled ___________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 20 Question 20
20) What does Renaissance rejection of the Middle Ages suggest?
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a. Both groups shared an interest in the Classical past
b. Renaissance thinkers bore an underlying admiration for the Middle Ages
c. The two were completely divergent
d. They had more in common than Renaissance thinkers wanted to admit