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Essay by people • May 26, 2011 • Essay • 296 Words (2 Pages) • 1,705 Views
1. In Renaissance Europe, the writing of Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler were all most closely associated with
a) challenges to the authority of the Pope
b) discoveries related to the position of the Earth in the universe
c) new ideas on the role of the citizen in government
d) revival of medieval knowledge about the human body
2. The Scientific Method's greatest contribution was to
a) encourage individuals to accept traditional explanations of social and scientific problems
b) demonstrate that natural occurrences all could be explained by reference to the teachings of the Church
c) promote investigation into the physical world using observation and experimentation
d) explain how human society and government should work for the improvement of people
3. Three of the following statements describe some of the advances in learning in Renaissance Europe. Choose the statement that does not accurately describe an advance in learning.
a) Teachings of the Church and discoveries of science worked together to improve understanding of the physical world.
b) Creation of the telescope allowed closer observation of the movements of the planets.
c) Mathematical knowledge from the Muslim world was applied to science and economics.
d) Advances were made in the knowledge of anatomy and the functioning of the human body.
To answer Question 4, refer to Figure 3-18 on text page 71. Look on the Smartboard screen at the front of class.
4. Which of the following features of Renaissance painting is most evident in the artwork above?
a) perspective
b) religious subject matter
c) details of nature and landscape
d) humanism
5. Niccolo Machiavelli, the controversial writer about political leadership, wrote that the most important means of judging the success of a leader was by
a) whether the people of the state loved the ruler
b) the amount of wealth which was owned by the state
c) the amount of money which the leader spent to increase the people's quality of life
d) whether the ruler remained
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