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Pop Quiz: The Renaissance

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1.

What is the accepted Western definition of renaissance?

worship of one diety
rebirth
training

2.

What city-state of Italy is generally considered by historians to be the most influential Renaissance location?

The Kingdom of Naples
Florence
Venice

3.

Which Renaissance artist painted the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy?

Ghiberti
Brunelleschi
Giotto

4.

In what section of Dante's three part 'Divine Comedy' does the author meet St. Bernard?

Paradiso
Purgatorio
Inferno

5.

Who was the patriarch of the wealthy Florintine Medici family?

Francesco
Cosimo
Lorenzo the Magnificent

6.

Which work of art created by Michelangelo is physically described as the Mary holding Jesus?

The Muses
The Moses
The Pieta

7.

And finally, what Renaissance quiz would be complete without asking who historians generally consider to be the true Renaissance Man?

Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo the Magnificent