Renaissance
Da Vinci
Miscelleanous Ren stuff
Grammar
Morphology
100

The word "Renaissance" means

What is Rebirth?

100

Name two important reasons that Da Vinci is considered the "Spirit of the Renaissance." What are the things that he is known for? 

What are: 

painter

inventor

scientist 

musician 

100

What is a courtier? 

What is the word court is in courtier. There is the kind of court where trials take place with a judge and sometimes a jury.

100

Isabella was born ________ the Italian city-state of Ferrara. 

What is the correct preposition and write the function (place, time, and partner) 

What is the preposition "in" and place? 

100

Which of the following words is a synonym for inaudible?

 A. sound         D. loud

B. silent 

C. applause  

What is silent? 

200

If you saw a man or woman walking down the street during the Renaissance, name 2 ways that you could identify their degree of wealth and social class?

What is stylish clothes, accessories such as jewelry and hats?

200

What happened after Leonardo Da Vinci outshone his master? 

What is "he gave up painting?" 

200

The expression from Shakespeare's words from chapter 9 "seen better days" means? 

What is "something that is old and worn out but had one time was new? 

200

fill in the “Agreement in the Past Tense” 

Subject: women of the Renaissance 

Linking verb: to be

What is women... were? 

200

My final project for class was incomplete. What does this mean about my project? 

What is the project was NOT finished. 

300

Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Who is Michelangelo?

300

How did Leonardo show interest in the natural world? 

What is "he was interested in flying and the human body; he worked as a mapmaker and military enginer and studied science." (pg. 27 in the text)

300

The phrase "all is well that ends well" is an example of what type of figurative language? 

What is an idiom? 

300

Francesco was often ____, fighting battles ______

other city-states and countries. 

What prepositions should go in the blanks? 

What is away and against? 

300

Use the correct correlative conjunctions in this sentence. 

The word Renaissance comes from____ the French _____Latin languages.

What is "both" & "and"? 

400

The peninsula where the Renaissance begin in Europe is the country of _____________. 

What is Italy?

400

Why did LDV focus on the arrangement of figures and faces and expressions when painting The Last Supper?

What is "he wanted to capture the very moment when the apostles heard Jesus's shocking announcement, "One of you will betray me!" 

400

What words or phrases in the text let you know that The Adventures of Don Quixote was a popular novel that transformed literature?

What is it was widely read by literate members of society; it was a popular novel in later centuries; and only the Bible has been translated into more languages?

400

She studied in school along with her brothers and sisters. 

What is the function of the preposition in this sentence?

What is partner?  

400

What does the root word serv mean? 

What is save? 

500

What is a patron and what famous family supported many artists including Michelangelo during the Renaissance period? 

What is a person who gives money to the arts in exchange for art works and power? 

Who is the "Medici family?" 

500

Who is the woman that LDV painted in his forever famous "Mona Lisa?"

Who is Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant? 

500

One of the few paintings in which Bruegel did choose to use a myth as the theme is Landscape with the Fall of _____________. 

What is Icarus? 

500

Editing: Where does the comma belong in this sentence? 

It seems there is no end in sight yet we must find a way to reach an agreement. 

Where is after the word "sight?" 

500

The Pope was ________ for Michelangelo to finish painting the Sistine Chapel. 

Choices: patient, impatient, polite, impolite 

What is impatient?