Renaissance: Vocabulary | ||
#1 | What does the word renaissance mean? | rebirth |
#2 | What word means worldly? | secular |
#3 | What do we call the language spoken in a person’s own region? | vernacular |
#4 | What word means to be released from all or part of the punishment of sin? | indulgence |
#5 | What was Calvin’s idea that God had determined in advance who would be saved and who would be damned? | predestination |
Renaissance Literature | ||
#1 | Who wrote the book The Prince? | Nicclolo Machiaveli |
#2 | Who authored The Canterbury Tales? | Geoffrey Chaucer |
#3 | Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses and started the Protestant Reformation? | Martin Luther |
#4 | What practice of the church did Luther's Ninety-five Theses attack? | the sell of indulgence |
#5 | What are the three parts of the divine comedy and what is it about? | inferno (#!!##!!##!!##!!#), purgatory, paradise (heaven); Dante's journey through all three realms until he reaches God |
Renaissance Men | ||
#1 | Who sculpted David of the Bible and painted the Sistine Chapel? | Michaelangelo |
#2 | Who mastered the art of realistic painting with the Mona Lisa and the last Supper and dissected human bodies to see how nature worked? | Leonardo Da Vinci |
#3 | Who was admired for his Madonnas (paintings of the Virgin Mary)? | Raphael |
#4 | Who was the Holy Roman Emperor at the Edict of Worms and during the fighting against the German-Lutheran Princes? | Charles V |
#5 | Who was the “warrior-pope” that led armies against his enemies? | Pope Julius II |
Major Events of the Renaissance | ||
#1 | What city did the Spanish sack in 1527, which left them to be a dominant force in Italy? | Rome |
#2 | What invention caused the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation to spread so quickly? | Guttenberg Printing Press |
#3 | What is the key intellectual movement of the Renaissance that focused on the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome? | Humanism |
#4 | What agreement ended the religious warfare in Germany and what was forever lost with it? | Peace of Augsburg and Christian Unity |
#5 | What were the three chief pillars of the Catholic Reformation? | The Jesuits, the reform of the papacy, and the Council of Trent |
Renaissance 'luck of the draw' | ||
#1 | Which city-state was the cultural center of the Renaissance in Italy? | Florence |
#2 | What is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints? | Fresco |
#3 | Who in England annulled his own marriage because he was tired of waiting on the pope and wanted a son? | King Henry VIII |
#4 | 46. Who burned more than three hundred Protestants as part of an attempt to restore Catholicism as the main religion in England? | Mary, Queen of Scotts or 'Bloody Mary' |
#5 | What did Protestants and Catholics do to the Anabaptists? | The Protestants and Catholics drowned the Anabaptist as a form of persecution/eradication |
Final Question | |
What were the final decrees of the Council of Trent? | Both faith and good works were needed for salvation. The seven sacraments, the belief in purgatory and indulgences was upheld. The selling of indulgences, however, was forbidden. |