Renaissance: Literature, Art, and Science

Q. Who is the father of the Renaissance?

1. Da Vinci
2. Petrarch
3. Dante
4. Gutenberg

Q. Whose theory suggested that the Earth is the centre of the universe?

1. Ptolemy
2. Bacon
3. Descartes
4. Copernicus

Q. Which artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

1. Michelangelo
2. Titian
3. Da Vinci
4. Raphael

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. Match the following works with their respective writers.

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

Q. 'Utopia' is a work by which writer?

1. Shakespeare
2. Chaucer
3. More
4. Boccaccio

Q. Around the 14th-15th century, which of the following countries started nurturing modern literature?

1. Holland
2. Portugal
3. Germany
4. Spain

Q. Pick the fields that best describe Shakespeare.

1. Poetry
2. Painting
3. Playwright
4. Acting

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

1. True
2. False

Q.

What was the name of the statue constructed by Michelangelo that featured Mother Mary in a seated posture, carrying the boy Jesus across her chest?

1. Pieta

2. None of the above

3. David and Goliath

4. Desmond

Q. What was Petrarch's intention behind writing "Africa"?

1. It described the world at time.
2. It was a description of the people of Africa.
3. It described the various resources in Africa.
4. It described man's happiness and sorrow.

Q. I was born in Italy and was widely popular for my influential paintings. I was also regarded as a universal genius. Last Supper is one of my paintings. Who am I?

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

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

1. Arabia
2. Africa
3. Augustus

Q. Who is known as the father of Renaissance?

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

Q.

which awards did jerome k jerome got??

Q. Who among the following was the disciple of Petrarch?

1. Boccaccio
2. Machiavelli
3. Dante
4. Thomas Moore

Q. Who started questioning the Popes' attention towards politics rather than religion?

1. Erasmus
2. Newton
3. Chaucer
4. Wycliffe

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

1. True
2. False

Q. Who invented the Telescope?

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

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. The author of the passage would probably agree with which of the following statements about the utopia referred to in line 60 ?

1. It would have encouraged new artistic ventures.
2. It would have stifled human creativity.
3. It is an ideal that we should continue to work towards.
4. It may come to pass because of the popularity of television.
5. It was a notion rejected by Greek philosophers.

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

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

Q. explanation of the poem the Brook

Q.

why did the poet look again at her mother? my mother at 66!

Q. The line "Enter Hamlet" is

1. an aside
2. a stage direction
3. dialogue
4. monologue

Q. Till last by the Phillips farm i flow
to join the brimming River
what is the poetic device used in 1st line

Q. Which among the following helped propel the development of the Renaissance?

1. Deism
2. Copernican Theory
3. Humanism
4. The Social Contract
5. Mercantilism

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

1. True
2. False