Renaissance: Literature, Art, and Science

Q. William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor.

1. True
2. False

Q. Choose the correct pair of artists and their works.

1. Da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. Mona Lisa
4. Final Judgement
5. Raphael
6. Sistine Madonna

Q. Who is known as the father of Renaissance?

1. Petrarch
2. John Wycliffe
3. Peter Abelard
4. Rozar Bacon

Q. Who is the artist behind the famous 'Mona Lisa' painting?

1. Raphael
2. Michelangelo
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Titian

Q. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman, argued that scientific knowledge should be validated with evidence.

1. True
2. False

Q. Who invented the Telescope?

1. Leonardo Da Vinci
2. Keppler
3. Gutenberg
4. Galileo Galilei

Q. German scientist Kepler came up with the theory that planets revolved around the Sun in oval orbits.

1. True
2. False

Q. Match the following works with their respective writers.

1. Utopia
2. Canterbury Tales
3. Divine Comedy
4. Decameron

Q. X disproved the Earth-centric argument of Y and showed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system. Identify X and Y.

1. X- Copernicus, Y- Galileo
2. X- Ptolemy, Y Galileo
3. X- Ptolemy, Y- Copernicus
4. X- Copernicus, Y- Ptolemy

Q. is one of the famous poems written in Latin by Petrarch.

1. Arabia
2. Africa
3. Augustus