WESTERN CIVILIZATION                                                              NAME ____________

Test   # 2B      

 

QUESTIONS 1-10.  ANSWER the following ten questions after you have read the following story.

            Massimo loved to go to work in the Cathedral of San Marco, near the Doge’s Palace.  One day on his way into work he stopped to watch a visiting artist, the student of the great Raphael in his workshop.  The student mentioned that Raphael was working on a painting he was doing in the Vatican. The student told Massimo that everyone was commenting on how the painting seemed to be such a great example of the era with all its perspective and classical themes.  Massimo and our student got into a discussion of who was the most influential artist of the Renaissance.  Massimo felt the most important was the man often called the "first" Italian painter of the Renaissance, who observed from life and painted in three-dimensional ways.  He especially liked his paintings in the Scrovegni Chapel.

 

1.  What renaissance city does Massimo live in?

            a.  Rome;

            b.  Venice;

            c.   Florence;

            d.  Naples;

 

2   Massimo lived in what time period?

            a.  The trecento;

            b.  The quattrocento;

            c.   The cinquecento;

            d.  The Dark Ages.

 

3.  The leading business for our town was 

            a.  banking;

            b.  international trade;

            c.  cotton;

           d.  wine;

 

4. The Doge is the name for

            a.  the religious leader of the town;

            b.  an important member of the army;

            c.  the political leader of the town;

d.      the leading merchant of the town.

 

5.  The type of political structure of this town would be a

            a   democracy;

            b.  monarchy;

            c.  oligarchy;

d.      dictatorship .

6.   The painting Raphael was working on was his

            a.  The School of Athens;

            b.  Madonna;

            c.  St George and St Anne;

            d.  Duke or Urbino.

 

7.   The "first" Italian painter of the Renaissance, who observed from life and painted in

three dimensional ways was

           a.  Giotto;

           b.  Da Vinci;

           c.  Michelangelo;

           d.  Donatello.

 

8.   The dominant color in the Scrovegni Chapel, the most famous color of the Renaissance, was

a.      blue;

b.      green;

c.      yellow

d.      red.

 

9.  The Cathedral of San Marco shows architectural forms that came from

a.      England;

b.      Germany;

c.      Middle East;

d.      Spain.

 

10.  Our town first developed around

                           a.  its open air market;

b.      the waterfront area;

c.      the airport;

d.      the main roads leading in and out of town.

 

Questions about our story end here

 

11.  The date most often given for the start of the Reformation is?

            a.   1000;

            b.   1200;

            c.   1300;

d.      1500;

 

12.  The central tenet of Luther’s spiritual conversion was necessity of

            a.  faith;

            b.  faith and good works;

            c.  confession and public prayer;

            d.  the sacraments.

 

 

 

13.  Christine de Pisan was

            a.  the future wife of Martin Luther;

            b.  a women who earned her living as a writer;

            c.  famous renaissance painter;

e.      wife of a Pope;

 

14.             The Italian expression “l’uomo universale” translates  as

            a.  all sided or well rounded man;

            b.  all good things are universal;

            c.  you have to believe ;

d.      love is all you need;

 

15.  The leader of Protestantism in Switzerland was

            a.  Johann Tetzel

            b.  John Knox

            c.  Ulrich Zwingli

            d.  Ulrich von Hutten.

 

16.  The type of government that Calvin set up in Geneva was

            a.  a democracy

            b.  an oligarchy

            c.  a theocracy

            d.  a plutocracy

 

17.  The "father of humanism" is a title that has been given to this Italian author,             a.  Giovanni Boccaccio;                  

           b.  Francesco Petrarch;                   

           c.  Thomas Moore;

           d.  Pico della Mirandola.

 

18.  The papal legate Luther was so critical of, who had been "selling" indulgences, was named 

            a.  Desiderius Erasmus

            b.  Ignatius Loyola

            c.  Savanarola

            d.  Tetzel

 

19.  The founder of the Jesuit order and great crusader for the Catholic Reformation was

            a.  Desiderius Erasmus

            b.  Ignatius Loyola

            c.  Savanarola

e.      Tetzel

 

20.  Anabaptists rejected the doctrine of

            a.  the baptism of adults

            b.  salvation by faith alone

            c.  the priesthood of all believers

            d.  infant baptism

21.  The author of the Utopia was

            a.  Thomas More

            b.  Raphael Hythloday

            c.  Erasmus

            d.  Plato

 

22.  Which nation is matched with the correct exploration direction?

            a.  Spain- west to South and Central America;

            b.  England-south towards Africa;

            c.  Portugal-north to New Portugal;

            d.  Holland-north to Greenland.

 

23.  The motives of the explores can be summarized as

            a.  money, honey and silver

            b.  land, wealth and religion

            c.  gold, glory and god

            c.  love, labor  and  lust

 

24.  A serious, although satirical, attack on human frailties and religion is to be found in

            a.  The Fairie Queene;

            b.  Doctor Faustus;

            c.  Ascent of Mount Ventoux;

c.      In Praise of Folly.

 

25.  The Council of Trent was important because it -                   

            a.  was the first general council ever held by the Catholic church             b.  affirmed Catholic teachings after years of Protestant challenges             c.  marked the start of what is called the conciliar movement             d.  allowed Catholics to break away from Rome’s leadership.

 

26.  Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517?              a. Jean Calvin                                               

            b. Henry VIII                                                   

            c. Ignatius Loyola                                         

            d. Martin Luther

 

27.  The two most famous domes of the Renaissance are found on

            a.  Hagia Sophie in Constantinople and Saint Peter’s in Rome;

b.      Cathedral of Florence and Saint Mark’s in Venice;   

c.  Saint Mark’s in Venice and Saint Peter’s in Rome;

d.      Saint Peter’s in Rome and the Duomo of Florence;  

e.  Cathedral of Milan and St. Lorenzo in Florence.

 

28. What was the primary recurring issue of the reformation?

            a.  Who is God?  What will he do for me?

            b.  How can I be saved?

            c.  Why am I here?  What is my purpose?

            d.  When and where do I go to find myself?

 

 

 

 

29.   Transubstantiation is associated with

            a.  Ignatius Loyola;

            b.  John Calvin;

            c.  Martin Luther;

            d.  Desiderius Erasmus;

            e.  the Catholic Church.

 

30.  Some differences between the northern and southern renaissance was that

            a.  the north was less religious than the south;

            b.  the northern renaissance sparked and then died out because of the overwhelming

                            religious intolerance;

            c.  the northern renaissance was less cultural, less urban and more intellectual;

            d.  the northern renaissance was nonexistent, it was purely a southern movement.

 

31.  What was the primary recurring issue of the reformation?

            a.  Who is God?  What will he do for me?

            b.  How can I be saved?

            c.  Why am I here?  What is my purpose?

            d.  When and where do I go to find myself?

 

32.  Zwingli believed in

            a.  the necessity of church paintings, stained glass window and music;

            b.  Luther’s ideas about the Bible as the symbolic source of truth;

            c.  the symbolic meaning of communion;

            d.  the need for monasteries.

 

33.  Which of the following is not  true of the Italian humanists?

            a.  there was a veneration for ancient civilization

            b.  emphasis was placed on grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history-the                              whole person

            c.  they wrote in Italian only

            d.  the typical humanists felt humble and inferior before the works                              of the  ancients.

 

TIMELINE:  PLACE THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR ORDER OF OCCURRENCE:

 

            A.  Medici begin three centuries of domination.

            B.  Dante writes Divine Comedy.

            C.  Luther publishes his “Ninety-five Thesis”.

            D.  Council of Trent.

 

34.____34.   first

35.____35. 

36.____36. 

37.____37.  last

 

 

38-40.   The following questions come from Merchants, Money and Magnificence.

 

38.  The two major businesses in Renaissance Florence were

            a.  Banking and shipping;               

           b.  Gold and Silver;

           c.  Cloth manufacturing and shipping;

           d.  Banking and Cloth manufacturing.

 

39.  The social structure of the city of Florence :

           a.  was similar to than of ancient Greece;

           b.  was similar to than of ancient Rome;

           c.  was very much like that of a modern merchant town;

           d.  was like that of industrial Pittsburgh.

 

40.  They were the wealthy wool merchants.  In Italian they were called the 

            a.  Lanaioli;

            b.  Bancos;

            c.  Albittzi;

            d.  Burger Meisters.

 

The following are art questions to be answered from the illustrations located about the room:

 

41. What are the structures illustrated in yellow called?

            a.  flying buttresses;

            b.  onion domes;

            c.  cross vaulting;

d.      cross forms.

 

42.  What style of column is the following?

            a.  Doric;

            b.  Ionic;

            c.  Corinthian;

d.      Athenian.

 

43.  Which of these paintings is the  Medieval painting ?

            a.  A;

            b.  B;

       c.  C.

 

44.   Which of these paintings is the  Renaissance painting ?

            a.  A;

            b.  B.

 

 

 

45.  A good title for this painting would be

            a.  “The Madonna”;

            b.  “The Last Supper”;

            c.  “David”;

d.      “The Creation”.

 

Identify the style of architecture in the following:

 

 

46.  What style of architecture is the following?

            a.  Classical;

            b.  Romanesque;

            c.  Gothic;

            d.  Renaissance.

 

47.  What style of architecture is the following?

            a.  Classical;

            b.  Romanesque;

            c.  Gothic;

            d.  Renaissance.

 

48.  What style of architecture is the following?

            a.  Classical;

            b.  Romanesque;

            c.  Gothic;

            d.  Renaissance.

 

49.  What style of architecture is the following?

            a.  Classical;

            b.  Romanesque;

            c.  Gothic;

            d.  Renaissance.

 

50.  What style of architecture is the following?

            a.  Classical;

            b.  Romanesque;

            c.  Gothic;

            d.  Renaissance.

 

Extra credit question; (2 points) bring to class first thing on Tuesday.  What style of architecture is seen in the buildings on the poster of Ohio Wesleyan University, located on the wall inside the CCC/Guidance offices?