Fall 2025 World History - Units 4 Test - Middle Ages to Reformation 2025

1) What was the Renaissance a rebirth of? (LT 3.4)

• Christian devotion
• art and learning
• chivalry and tournaments
• good health after the plague

2) Why did learning decline during the last years of the Roman Empire? (LT 3-4)

• invaders burned most of the empire's collection of manuscripts
• invaders could neither read nor write and did not understand Latin
• everything written in Greek was destroyed by the invaders
• People were too worried about becoming Youtube famous and making tictok videos

3) Which of the following is a reason the Renaissance happened in Italy as opposed to other areas of Europe? (Lt 3.4)

• Italy had remained powerful since the fall of Rome.
• Italy had grown rich from trade.
• The rich gold mines in Florence and elsewhere allowed the northern states to become independent of the Church.
• The Roman Catholic church was located here.

4) Effects of the Crusades: (LT 3.4)

• The Crusades brought cultural diffusion & introduced new ideas into Western Europe
• Increased desires for luxury goods like silk, cotton, sugar, & spices
• Introduced technologies like compass, astrolabe, ship designs, & gunpowder introduced ideas like Arabic numbers, chemistry, algebra, telescope
• All of the above

5) The _____ were the largest and most powerful of the Germanic kingdoms. (LT 3.4)

• Franks
• Huns
• Polish
• Vikings

6) What was the chief goal of the Crusades? (LT3-4)

• to recover Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim Turks
• to improve trade between Europe, Asia, and Africa
• to force the Byzantines to become Catholic
• to prevent the spread of the Bubonic plague

7) In what way did Leonardo da Vinci represent the Renaissance Man? (LT 3.5)

• He was a painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist.
• He painted the Mona Lisa while holding scientific discussions.
• He lived in Italy during the 1500s.
• He used perspective in all of his drawings and paintings.

8) What kind of person represented the ideal of the "Renaissance man"? (LT 3.5)

• someone who enjoyed worldly pleasures
• someone who excelled in many areas of study
• someone who specialized in a particular field of study
• someone who supported and appreciated the arts without creating art

9) For what is the Medici family famous? (LT 3.5)

• for being artists
• for being writers
• for being bankers and supporters of the arts
• for being religious reformers

10) Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of David? LT 3-6)

• Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci
• Donatello and Michelangelo
• Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci and Brunelleschi
• Brunelleschi and Donatello