OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

❖ MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Which historian believed that historian must focus on culture as well as politics in the
renaissance time period?
a) Leopold von Ranke
b) Jacob Burckhardt
c) Niccolo Machianclli
d) Plato
2. Which book was characterized by the new belief that man as individual was capable of
making his own decision and developing his skills?
a) The Price
b) Utopia
c) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
d) Almagest
3. Humanism led to the development of many Universities in Europe, one among them was
the University of Bologna. It dealt with which discipline of academics?
a) Legal Studies
b) Humanities
c) Architecture
d) Archaeology
4. Who was referred to as ‘Aflatun’ in Arabic translations of ancient sources in the
Renaissance time period?
a) Aristotle
b) Ptolemy
c) Plato
d) Ibn Sina
5. Which professor in Medicine laid the foundation of modern physiology in the renaissance
period?
a) Andreas Vesalius
b) Donatello
c) Michelangelo Buonarroti
d) Filippo Brunelleschi
6. Identify the writer from the statements given below.

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 • He was an Arab philosopher from Spain.
• Also known as Averroes in Latin.
• He tried to revolve the tension between philosophical knowledge and religious beliefs.
a) Ibn Rushd
b) Ptolemy
c) Aristo
d) Ibn Sina
7. Identify the architect from the statements given below.
• He painted the Sistine chapel.
• He designed the dome of St Peter’s Church.
• He made the Sculpture ‘The Pieta’.
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Filippo Brunelleschi
c) Michelangelo Buonarroti
d) Donatello
8. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
a) Petrarch - Canterbury Tales
b) Geoffrey Chaucer - ‘Poet laureate’ in Rome
c) Brunelleschi - Duomo in Florence
d) Guttenberg - The Last Supper
9. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
a) Leonardo da Vinci - Duomo in Florence
b) Colombus - America
c) Michelangelo - Sistine Chapel
d) Arab Mathematicians - Calculate Latitude by observing the Sun
10. Match the following.
Column I Colum II
A. Martin Luther King 1. 1483-1546
B. Ulrich Zwingli 2. 1484-1531
C. Jean Calvin 3. 1509-1564
D. Cassandra Fedele 4. 1465-1558
Codes
A B C D
a) 1 2 3 4
b) 4 3 2 1
c) 4 3 1 2
d) 2 3 4 1

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11. Identify the name of the sculpture given below.

a) The Pieta
b) The Last Supper
c) Utopia
d) None of these
12. Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.
I. Jacob Burckhardt was a German scholar.
II. German historian Leopold von Ranke was the teacher of scholar Jacob Burckhardt.
Codes
a) Only I
b) Only II
c) Both I and II
d) None of these

❖ ASSERTION-REASON MCQs
Direction: (Q. No. 13-17)
Each of these questions contains two statements. Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Each of these
questions also has four alternatives, any one of which is the correct answer. You have to select
one of the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below.
CODES
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is true, but R is false
d) R is true, but A is false

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13. Assertion (A): In the 16th century, Artists went to laboratories of medical school to learn about
bone structures and maintain same accuracy in their work.
Reason (R): Painters used knowledge of geometry to understand the perspective. They used
quality of light to acquire a three dimensional quality.
14. Assertion (A): The Renaissance period saw the revival of the imperial Roman style of
architecture.
Reason (R): The architecture was implied as a new style of architecture in Italy when ruins to
Rome were carefully excavated.
15. Assertion (A): The Italian towns were first to experience Humanism.
Reason (R): Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history and moral philosophy were taught in Italian
universities.
16. Assertion (A): Martin Luther supported Radicalism.
Reason (R): Martin Luther launched a campaign against the Catholic Church.
17. Assertion (A): Christians had believed that the earth was a sinful place and the heavy burden
of sin made it immobile.
Reason (R): Copernicus suggested that the earth stood at the center of the universe around
which moved the celestial planets.

❖ CASE BASED MCQs

18. Read the case/source given and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct
option.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94), a humanist of Florence, wrote on the
importance of debate in On the Dignity of Man (1486).
‘For [Plato and Aristotle] it was certain that, for the attainment of the knowledge of
truth they were always seeking for themselves, nothing is better than to attend as often
as possible the exercise of debate. For just as bodily energy is strengthened by
gymnastic exercise, so beyond doubt in this wrestling-place of letters, as it were, energy
of mind becomes far stronger and more vigorous.’

i. Mirandola was a humanist from the city of Florence. How did humanist differ
from the Pre-Renaissance man? Choose the incorrect option.
a) Humanist were restoring true civilization after centuries of darkness.
b) Humanism was taught at the university of Padua
c) The term humanist was used by masters who taught grammar, rhetoric, poetry,
history and moral philosophy
d) Thinking of individuals was controlled by Church
ii. Consider the following statements and choose the incorrect option.

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 I. Bodily energy can be strengthened by gymnastic exercise.
II. Participating in debate would strengthen the mind.
III. Attainment of knowledge is vital.
IV. Royal birth is important for attainment of knowledge.
a) Both I and II
b) Both II and IV
c) Only III Only IV
iii. What is Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s work ‘On the dignity of Man’ signify?
a) Importance of intellectual discussion
b) Bodily Energy
c) Exercise
d) None of the above
iv. Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola refers to thinkers like Plato and Aristotle whose
work were translated by Arabs. What names were assigned to them in Arab texts?
a) Almagest, Rhazes
b) Rushd, Faylasuf
c) Aflatun, Aristu
d) Alerterst, Amerest
v. What does ‘Wrestling Place of Letters’ in the text signify?
a) Wrestling ring
b) A place where exercise can be done
c) A place where intellectual discussion can take place
d) None of the above
vi. Which of the following statements did not lead to the emergence of Florence city-
state of Italy?
a) Revival of Ports on Italian coast
b) Development of Silk Route
c) Trade with western European countries
d) Rise of Ottoman Turks

SUBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

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➢ SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. Jacob Burckhardt is known as one of the major precursor of cultural history. Discuss about
Burckhardt.
2. Discuss the different reasons for the revival of Italian cities.
3. How did humanist scholars divide the history of Europe from their perspective?
4. How did painting enrich during renaissance period?
5. Discuss briefly about humanism and humanist views.
6. What were the advantages of printing technology in Europe?
7. What was the position of women during renaissance period in Europe? What was the
position of women in merchant and aristocrat families in Europe?
8. Enumerate the evil practices of the Catholic Church in medieval period that led to the
movement against them.
9. What reforms did Catholic Church initiate due to the impact of Protestantism?
10. Discuss briefly about Copernicus.
11. Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries?
12. List some new developments that happened during renaissance period.

➢ LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What kind of changes humanist ideas had brought in the religious sphere?
2. Discuss about the realistic art of Italians. Describe the revival of architecture in Europe and
give some examples of great works in Europe.
3. “Europeans are indebted not to their own scholars but to Arab translators”. Look at the
statement and discuss in details about the contribution of the Arabs in development of
Science and Philosophy.
4. Discuss different scientific developments that happened in Europe during renaissance
period.
5. What were the different views on European renaissance by different scholars? How was
Europe indebted to other regions of the world?

➢ SOURCE BASED QUESTIONS

1. Read the source given and answer the following questions.
The City-State

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Cardinal Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) writes about the democratic government of his city-state
in The Commonwealth and Government of Venice (1534).
‘…to come to the institution of our Venetian commonwealth, the whole authority of the city…is
in that council, into which all the gentlemen of the City being once past the age of 25 years are
admitted...
Now first I am to yield you a reckoning how and with what wisdom it was ordained by our
ancestors, that the common people should not be admitted into this company of citizens, in whose
authority [lies] the whole power of the commonwealth... Because many troubles and popular
tumults arise in those cities, whose government is swayed by the common people… many were of
contrary opinion, deeming that it would do well, if this manner of governing the commonwealth
should rather be defined by ability and abundance of riches. Contrariwise the honest citizens, and
those that are liberally brought up, oftentimes fall to poverty... Therefore our wise and prudent
ancestors... ordered that this definition of the public rule should go rather by the nobility of lineage,
than by the estimation of wealth: yet with that temperature [proviso], that men of chief and supreme
nobility should not have this rule alone (for that would rather have been the power of a few than a
commonwealth) but also every other citizen whosoever not ignobly born: so that all which were
noble by birth, or ennobled by virtue, did...obtain this right of government.’
i. Cardinal Gasparo Contarini talks about democratic form of government in the city-state of
Venice, then why are common people not allowed in the council?
ii. Explain the statement in the text “But also every other citizen whosoever not ignobly born:
so that all which were noble by birth or ennobled by virtue, did…… obtain the right of the
government.”
iii. The author of the text emphasized on the category of citizens who were poverty stricken in
the city of Venice. Whom he is referring to?

2. Read the source given and answer the following questions.

“Art” is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it… Moreover, you may demonstrate much
of your work by geometry. The more closely your work abides by life in its form, so much the
better will it appear…No man shall ever be able to make a beautiful figure out of his own
imagination unless he has well stored his mind by much copying from life.’
– Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
This sketch by Durer (Praying Hands) gives us a sense of Italian culture in the sixteenth century,
when people were deeply religious, but also had a sense of confidence in man’s ability to achieve
near-perfection and to unravel the mysteries of the world and the universe.
i. Explain the statement in the text “Art is embedded in nature, he who can extract it has
it…... .”
ii. What are the views of Albrecht on art?
iii. The sketch of ‘Praying hand’ by Albrecht Durer gives as sense of Italian culture. How?

3. Read the source given and answer the following questions.

William Tyndale (1494-1536), an English Lutheran who translated the Bible into English in 1506,
defended Protestantism thus:

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‘In this they be all agreed, to drive you from the knowledge of the scripture, and that ye shall not
have the text thereof in the mother-tongue, and to keep the world still in darkness, to the intent
they might sit in the consciences of the people, through vain superstition and false doctrine, to
satisfy their proud ambition, and insatiable covetousness, and to exalt their own honour above king
and emperor, yea, and above God himself... Which thing only moved me to translate the New
Testament. Because I had perceived by experience, how that it was impossible to establish the lay-
people in any truth, except the scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue,
that they might see the process, order, and meaning of the text. ‘
i. Who was William Tyndale?
ii. What were the objectives of William Tyndale to translate the Bible into English?
iii. Why did William Tyndale want to translate the New Testament?

4. Study the self-portrait of Copernicus carefully and answer any three of the following
questions.

i. What was the main contribution of Copernicus in the field of science?

ii. Why Copernicus did not announced his discovery to world in his lifetime?
iii. The three medieval era discovery that completely revolutionized the world of
Astronomy?
iv. What does the term Celestial means?

➢ COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS

1. Can you think why Renaissance era started in Italy? Give reasons.

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2. From which segment of this chapter you are highly influenced. Explain with
reasons.
3. Go through the chapter intensively and mention some basic features of
Humanistic Culture.
4. What type of scientific inventions made by scientist during 16th and17th century?
If you had lived in that period, would you have accepted scientific inventions,
Explain with the reasons.
5. Identify the images and mention the creator of these arts.

6. Identify the image of the Renaissance period and explain its features.

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