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Scholastica Renaissance 1

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Question:

I was a great Renaissance playwrite.  I wrote Romeo and Juliet,  Midsomer Nights Dream,  McBeth


Answer:

William Shakespeare



Question:

I am a great Renaissance artist.  I painted the Sistine Chapel and carved the Pieta


Answer:

Michaelangelo



Question:

I started the Protestant Reformation.  I nailed 95 theisis on the Church door in Germany


Answer:

Martin Luther



Question:

I started the Anglican Church when the Pope refused to give me a divorce


Answer:

King Henry V



Question:

I was a great friend of the King of England until I opposed his divorce.  He eventually had my head chopped off


Answer:

Thomas More



Question:

Which Italian wealthy family of bankers supported the Renaissance artists.


Answer:

Medici Family



Question:

This Renaissance maninvented the printing press with movable type


Answer:

Gutenberg



Question:

This man wrote the book "Utopia" which described a perfect world


Answer:

Thomas More



Question:

A Renaissance man was not interested in science but needed to have these two traits


Answer:

educated          witty       expert swordsman       in the military            



Question:

This man stated that a ruler should use any method it takes to keep or take power.  Even if it includes stealing, or killing


Answer:

Machiavelli



Question:

The Renaissance started in this country


Answer:

Italy



Question:

This word mean "rebirth"


Answer:

Renaissance



Question:

The Renaissance scholars were interested in Greek and Roman learning and developed this new area of studies


Answer:

humanities



Question:

During the Renaissance people thought less about their life after death and more about this


Answer:

living a good life

life should be lived as fully as possible

 



Question:

The invention of the printing press made these two things possible


Answer:

 

bookmaking was faster so many more books could be published

bookmaking became cheaper so more people could afford their own books

scholars had access to each other's writings so they could share knowledge and ideas



Question:

People began to paint with this medium instead of tempra paints


Answer:

oil paints



Question:

Michaelangelo painted this 


Answer:

Sistine Chapel



Question:

Leonardo de Vinci painted this picture


Answer:

Mona Lisa



Question:

Rembrandt was a painter from this country


Answer:

Holland,  He was Dutch



Question:

This was the Painter who used light to shine on a certain part of his pictures while the rest of the picture was in shadow


Answer:

Rembrandt



Question:

The nobles followed Martin Luther because


Answer:

They wanted the Church property,  They did not want to pay taxes to the Church anymore.  They wanted the Church power



Question:

King Henry VIII wanted to be the head of the Church of England so Paliament signed this document that made him so


Answer:

Act of Supremacy



Question:

After King Henry VII's son Edward died, this daughter became Queen of England.  Whose daughter was she? What nickname did they give her


Answer:

Mary, Catherine's daughter    Bloody Mary



Question:

After Henry VII's son died the second queen was this daughter.  Who was her mother


Answer:

Elizabeth I      her mother was Anne Boleyn



Question:

Which queen was responsible for the Catholics being expelled from England


Answer:

Elizabeth I