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1
Historians today regard the Renaissance as having been a continuation of the medieval period as much as a break from it.
A)True
B)False
2
Diplomacy emerged as a peaceful alternative to armed conflict during Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
3
Rome was the center of the early Renaissance in Italy.
A)True
B)False
4
Renaissance popes engaged in war.
A)True
B)False
5
During the Renaissance, the ideal of education was one which frees or liberates the mind: what is called a liberal education.
A)True
B)False
6
Leonardo Bruni argued that history should be studied solely for its own sake, because it offers no practical lessons for the present.
A)True
B)False
7
The fulfillment of the individual is a Renaissance ideal embodied particularly in the writings of Pico della Mirandola.
A)True
B)False
8
The Happy House was a school in Mantua that included physical exercise, moral training, the medieval curriculum, and humanistic studies.
A)True
B)False
9
In Renaissance paintings, depicting donors kneeling in prayer is the typical way of acknowledging art patrons.
A)True
B)False
10
Leonardo da Vinci is the first painter to show light falling from a single source.
A)True
B)False
11
Sfumato is a painting technique used by Leonardo da Vinci to soften edges of surfaces with a fine haze.
A)True
B)False
12
Leonardo's notebooks can be read with the use of a mirror.
A)True
B)False
13
Lucrezia Borgia was one of the most influential painters of the early Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
14
Studia humanitatis is the study of human anatomy.
A)True
B)False
15
Textual criticism enabled a Renaissance scholar to expose the Donation of Constantine as a forgery.
A)True
B)False





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