Renaissance: Literature, Art, and Science

Q. Who invented the Telescope?

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

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

1. True
2. False

Q. Who is the father of the Renaissance?

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

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

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

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. Pick the fields that best describe Shakespeare.

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

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

1. True
2. False

Q. What were Jacobins known as?

Q. Match the following works with their respective writers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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