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Which is true regarding Christine de Pisan?
A) She was the first professional woman writer.
B) Her feminism reflected a contemporary interest in providing greater opportunities for women.
C) She argued that women should not be educated.
D) She rejected the use of allegory in her fact-based prose. |
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| She was the first professional woman writer. |
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Which of the following CANNOT be said of "The Dance of Death?"
A) It personified Death as a skeleton or cadaver.
B) It demonstrates the concept of Death as "the great equalizer."
C) It was represented only in the visual arts.
D) It reflects the psychological impact of the Black Death. |
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| It was represented only in the visual arts. |
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In what way does Chaucer's Canterbury Tales differ from Boccaccio's Decameron?
A) Many of the tales are earthly or even ribald.
B) It was written in the vernacular.
C) The author places himself as one of the participants in the frame narrative.
D) The author ridiculed hypocrisy and clerical abuse. |
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| The author places himself as one of the participants in the frame narrative. |
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Books of Hours
A) were guides to private prayer.
B) were often illustrated with realistic and homely details.
C) were extremely popular among those who could afford them.
D) All these answers are correct. |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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In general, the arts following the Black Death
A) went into decline.
B) reflected a deeper emphasis on humanity.
C) featured a focus on God's destructive and awe-inspiring power.
D) denied the importance of emotion. |
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| reflected a deeper emphasis on humanity. |
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The Black Death did NOT
A) arrive in Italy by means of commercial vessels.
B) destroy one-third to one-half of Europe's population.
C) seriously affect the economy.
D) bring about the end of the Hundred Years' War. |
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| bring about the end of the Hundred Years' War. |
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The Great Schism resulted in
A) the removal of the Papacy from Rome to Avignon.
B) efforts at greater unity between church and state.
C) widespread church criticism and weakened papal prestige.
D) the end of the Hundred Years' War. |
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| widespread church criticism and weakened papal prestige. |
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The One Hundred Years’ War
A) anchored England and France politically and culturally.
B) outmoded older forms of combat with new technology.
C) began with Italy’s claim for the French throne.
D) did not affect Frances system of feudal allegiances. |
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| began with Italy’s claim for the French throne. |
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In Boccaccio's Tale of Filippa the defendant of the trial argues that the law on adultery
A) lacks the provision that the act must be witnessed.
B) is unfair to the party outside the marriage contract.
C) was passed without the consent of women.
D) provides a penalty that is cruel and unusual. |
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| was passed without the consent of women. |
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The technique that revolutionized Giotto's painting style featured
A) a new emphasis on line.
B) the use of light and shade to model form.
C) the introduction of symbolic gestures.
D) detailed realism in landscape settings. |
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| the use of light and shade to model form. |
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The Renaissance was born in which of the following cities?
A) Athens
B) Rome
C) Florence
D) Pisa |
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Cultural and political leadership for the early Renaissance was under the auspices of which of the following families?
A) the Lombards
B) the Medici
C) the Visconti
D) the Castiglione |
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Which of the following events caused a climate of intellectual skepticism in middle-class men and women of the era?
A) the Black Death
B) the Hundred Years’ War
C) the Great Schism of the Catholic Church
D) None of these answers is correct. |
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| the Great Schism of the Catholic Church |
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The artistic and intellectual movement to recover, edit, and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is called
A) humanistic Classicism.
B) secular humanism.
C) Classical secularism.
D) Classical humanism. |
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The father of the new movement to recover, edit, and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is generally regarded to be
A) Talleyrand.
B) Petrarch.
C) Pliny the Elder.
D) Pope Julius. |
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Which of the following stressed the importance of Classical education and hard work in the cultivation of virtù?
A) Alberti
B) Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Castiglione |
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Which one of the following applied his vast study of ancient literature to defend free will and the unlimited potential of the individual?
A) Alberti
B) Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Castiglione |
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Which one of the following translated the entire body of Plato’s writings from Greek into Latin?
A) Alberti
B) Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Castiglione |
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Which one of the following established the then-modern educational ideal in the person of l’uomo univerale (the well-rounded individual)?
A) Alberti
B) Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Castiglione |
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The Venetian writer ________ is famous for her written retort to a contemporary diatribe promoting the defects of women in The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects Vices of Men.
A) Cereta
B) Marinella
C) Christine de Pisan
D) Cervantes |
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The central theme in Machiavelli’s The Prince is
A) anyone can lead if thrust into the position.
B) the need for a strong state justifies strong rule.
C) two wrongs do not make a right.
D) money is the root of all evil. |
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| the need for a strong state justifies strong rule. |
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The Book of the Courtier was written by which of the following?
A) Alberti
B) Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Castiglione |
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Which of the following correctly identifies the approximate years of the Renaissance?
A) 940–1300
B) 940–1600
C) 1300–1600
D) 1600–1750 |
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The beginnings of the Renaissance can be found in which of the following?
A) Florence
B) Classical humanism
C) Petrarch
D) All these answers are correct. |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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The word “renaissance” literally means
A) new breath.
B) new thinking.
C) rebirth.
D) to cover over the old. |
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In the commercial cities of Italy and the Netherlands, the arts became tangible expressions of increased
A) urbanization.
B) piety.
C) affluence.
D) crime and sin. |
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Renaissance artists were disciples of
A) God.
B) nature.
C) religion.
D) orthodoxy. |
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The first freestanding life-sized sculpture of a human since antiquity was created by which of the following?
A) Donatello
B) Masaccio
C) Ghiberti
D) Brunelleschi |
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Which of the following painted The Birth of Venus sometime after 1482?
A) Donatello
B) Masaccio
C) Botticelli
D) Brunelleschi |
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Which of the following was responsible for the colossal and innovative dome on the cathedral (il Duomo) in Florence, Italy
A) Donatello
B) Masaccio
C) Ghiberti
D) Brunelleschi |
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An early master of the new Renaissance technique of linear perspective, ________ died young but left many innovative church frescos in Florence.
A) Donatello
B) Masaccio
C) Ghiberti
D) Brunelleschi |
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________, the quintessential artist-scientist, tried to reconcile empirical experience with abstract principles of design.
A) Brunelleschi
B) Michelangelo
C) Leonardo
D) Ghiberti |
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In 1510, Pope Julius II commissioned which of the following artists to execute a series of frescoes for the Vatican Stanza Della Segnatura, including The School of Athens?
A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo
D) Ghiberti |
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Architect, sculptor, and painter, Michelangelo brought a ________ dimension, both in size and execution, to the treatment of traditional Christian and classical subjects.
A) sympathetic
B) heroic
C) understated
D) rough |
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The Venetian architect celebrated for having resuscitated the Classical ideals of symmetry and centrality in numerous buildings and villas throughout Northern Italy was
A) Bramante.
B) Palladio.
C) Michelangelo.
D) Ghiberti. |
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In Venice, Titian achieved fame for his ________ renderings of sensuous female nudes occupying landscapes and rich interiors.
A) painterly
B) pointillist
C) expressionist
D) impressionist |
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The technological innovation that spurred the Protestant Reformation was the
A) compass.
B) ability to pave roadways.
C) printing press.
D) long bow. |
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The devotio moderna movement first took root in which of the following countries?
A) Italy
B) Switzerland
C) Spain
D) the Netherlands |
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Besides the Bible, which of the following was the most frequently published book in the Christian West well into modern times?
A) the Divine Comedy
B) The Book of Hours
C) Imitatio Christi
D) Canterbury Tales |
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The leading Christian humanist of his day, ________ led the critical study of the Bible and writings of the church fathers.
A) Pliny the Elder
B) Plato
C) Cicero
D) Erasmus |
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Across the loose confederation of German territories, the Church’s sale of indulgences for the specific purpose of ________ provoked harsh lay criticism and was the final straw that eventually led to the Protestant Reformation.
A) rebuilding Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Rome
B) sending missionaries to the Orient
C) repaving the streets in Paris
D) outfitting the pontiff in several new outfits |
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| rebuilding Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Rome |
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________ was the voice of the Protestant Reformation.
A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Martin Luther
C) John Calvin
D) Thomas More |
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The 1517 call for Church reform posted on the Wittenberg Cathedral’s door was titled
A) The Prince.
B) the Divine Comedy.
C) the Ninety-Five Theses.
D) Imitatio Christi. |
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German princes either held fast in their allegiance to Rome, or banded together under the name of
A) Lutherans.
B) Calvinists.
C) the Anabaptists.
D)Anglicans. |
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A Zurich-based radical wing of Protestantism called ________ rejected all seven of the Catholic sacraments, turning instead to individual acceptance of God.
A) Lutherans
B) Calvinists
C) the Anabaptists
D) Anglicans |
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A Geneva-based Protestant sect named ________ emphasized the predestined nature of humanity from birth for salvation or damnation.
A) Lutherans
B) Calvinists
C) the Anabaptists
D) Anglicans |
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In 1526, Henry VIII declared himself head of which of the following organizations?
A) Lutherans
B) Calvinists
C) the Anabaptists
D) Anglicans |
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The pioneer of Northern Realism in painting was the Flemish artist
A) Giovanni Nicolas Arnolfini.
B) Hieronymus Bosch.
C) Raphael.
D) Jan van Ecyk. |
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The literary genre of the novel was first created in Japan; which of the following is considered the first Western novel?
A) the Divine Comedy
B) Tale of Genji
C) Don Quixote
D) Canterbury Tales |
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The most powerful form of literary expression to evolve in the late sixteenth century was secular
A) readings.
B) dance.
C) drama.
D) sermons. |
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| Claus Sluter - Well of Moses |
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| Michelozzo - Medici Palace |
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| Botticelli - Birth of Venus |
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| Jan van Eyck - Man in a Red Turban |
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| Ghiberti - Meeting of Solomon and Sheba |
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| Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights |
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| Durer - Knight, Death and the Devil |
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| Grunewald - Isenheim Altarpiece |
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| Da Vinci - The Last Supper |
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