This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Renaissance > The Renaissance – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Renaissance Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time? A) Poliziano. B) Cervantes. C) Martin Luther. D) Alexander VI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Martin Luther. 2. One of Chaucer's daughter was.....? A) A musician. B) An astronomer. C) A nun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nun. 3. Who lost the most power during the renaissance? A) Italian merchants. B) Catholic church. C) Black people. D) King and queen of Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catholic church. 4. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend? A) Pembroke College. B) Trinity College. C) Christ's College. D) St. Xavier's College. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christ's College. 5. How many children chaucer had? A) 4. B) 1. C) 0. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 6. The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance A) Growth of religious activity among common people. B) Earlier occurrence. C) Greater appreciation of pagan writers. D) Decline in the use of Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growth of religious activity among common people. 7. Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance? A) Emphasis on individuality. B) Confidence in human rationality. C) The emergence of merchant oligarchies. D) The development of social insurance programs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The development of social insurance programs. 8. Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin? A) Space used to mean "outer space". B) Unaccountable. C) Pandemonium. D) Blatant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blatant. 9. Which school did Milton attend? A) St Paul's. B) Christ's Hospital. C) Merchant Taylors'. D) Westminster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St Paul's. 10. Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated A) Just the same as men. B) With emphasis on science and mathematics. C) Not at all. D) Confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting. 11. What sparked the Renaissance? A) The Feudal system was collapsing. B) The "95 theses". C) The Crusades. D) The Black Plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Feudal system was collapsing. 12. Chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for.....? A) Beating a friar in a London street. B) For writing poetry against the church. C) For crossing the border of Great Britain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beating a friar in a London street. 13. What was chaucer's profession? A) A poet. B) A merchant. C) A civil servant. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A civil servant. 14. What was the duration of hundred year's war? A) 1300 to 1350. B) 1337 to 1453. C) 1302 to 1343. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1337 to 1453. 15. "Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee." Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost? A) Horatio Herbert Kitchener. B) William Blake. C) William Wordsworth. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 16. Chaucer was released from legal action by ..... in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction? A) Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne. B) Philippa de Roet of Flanders. C) Agnes de Copton. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne. 17. In what country did the Renaissance begin? A) Italy. B) France. C) England. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy. 18. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance" emerged, initially apply? A) A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire. B) A story about love and adventure. C) A Roman official. D) A work written in the French vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A work written in the French vernacular. 19. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering" of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers? A) Geoffrey of Monmouth. B) The Gawain poet. C) The Beowulf poet. D) Chr\'etien de Troyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gawain poet. 20. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in.....? A) 1386. B) 1300. C) 1343. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1386. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesThe Renaissance Quiz 1The Renaissance Quiz 3Renaissance Literature Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books