Question 1

All of the following are desired of Baldassare Castiglione\'s l\'uomo universale EXCEPT

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charity to the less fortunate.

Question 2

The humanists in Lorenzo\'s court have viewed Venus in Botticelli\'s Primavera as

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an allegory for the highest moral qualities.

Question 3

Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by

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using foreshortening

Question 4

It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely over a half century earlier, the city had witnessed

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as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death.

Question 5

According to Pico della Mirandola in the Oration on the Dignity of Man, humans are \"the most fortunate of living things,\" because of their great gift of

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free will.

Question 6

Dufay\'s Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to

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mirror the proportions of Solomon\'s Temple and the Florence Cathedral.

Question 7

How did Filippo Brunelleschi construct his dome without temporary wooden scaffolding?

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The dome\'s ribs function as support, so scaffolding is part of the design.

Question 8

Cosimo de\' Medici founded Florence\'s Platonic Academy to

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provide a place for the study and discussion of Plato\'s works

Question 9

Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo de Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because

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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.

Question 10

Leonardo da Vinci\'s Last Supper fresco is unique for its

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psychological realism.

Question 11

In Titian\'s Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by

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the nude woman.

Question 12

In the School of Athens, Raphael represents Plato pointing upward to signify the location of

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the realm of ideal forms.

Question 13

In Renaissance Italy, the education of women was, to some degree, necessitated by

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the rise of the merchant class.

Question 14

In the School of Athens, Aristotle directs his palm down to

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indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world.

Question 15

Villa La Rotunda was modeled upon the

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Pantheon.

Question 16

In The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, Lucretia Marinella claims that men who denigrate women are motivated by

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anger and envy.

Question 17

According to the ancient Roman Vitruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the

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human head.

Question 18

Donato Bramante applied the Vitruvian circle inscribed with a square to his church designs to

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symbolize the perfection of God

Question 19

Michelangelo placed the Separation of Light from Darkness at the far end of the Sistine Chapel over the altar, because it

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was intended to symbolize the viewers\' distance from creation\'s goodness and truth

Question 20

Venetian artists begin favoring oil paint over tempera, because it

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gave their work more luminosity and realistic details.

Question 21

Why in his later years did Martin Luther claim that the Jews were devils and blasphemers?

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Jews did not willingly convert in great numbers to the reformed Christianity.

Question 22

At the heart of Martin Luther\'s outrage at the Church\'s \"salvation for sale\" was

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class inequity and injustice.

Question 23

Satire aims to convey the contradiction between

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real and ideal situations

Question 24

Ulrich Zwingli launched his program of iconoclasm in Zurich to

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protest the excesses of the Vatican.

Question 25

Martin Luther rebelled against the Church mandate about celibacy for those in a religious vocation, because

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faith, to him, equalized everyone, including the clergy.

Question 26

Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More revived the Classical literary genre of

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satire.

Question 27

The first major work that Johannes Gutenberg published using his printing press was

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The Forty-Two Line Bible.

Question 28

The Roman Catholic Church condemned FranÃ§ois Rabelais\'s Gargantua and Pantagruel for

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attacking medieval theology\'s dogmas and sacraments.

Question 29

Michel de Montaigne invented the

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personal essay.

Question 30

Why did many Northern European artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes?

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The market for religious art was diminishing.

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT one of William Byrd\'s reasons for people to learn to sing?

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It makes people more pleasant.

Question 32

What in Dr. Faustus would become a standard feature of the Elizabethan stage?

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blending of tragic and comedy

Question 33

English families agreed to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587

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in exchange for land.

Question 34

England sought to establish a colonial foothold in the Americas to

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counter the powerful Hispanic Catholic presence there.

Question 35

Which Elizabethan writer used the English sonnet form so successfully that it has been given his name?

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William Shakespeare

Question 36

In an English sonnet, the resolution or explanation is the last

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couplet.

Question 37

in Hans Holbein\'s The Ambassadors, the skull between the two ambassadors represents

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the fate that awaits us all

Question 38

Publication of what work directly inspired sacred music during the Elizabethan age?

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The First Book of Common Prayer

Question 39

Henry VIII wrote a tract condemning Martin Luther and his religious reforms to

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earn a \"Defender of the Faith\" title from the pope.

Question 40

For John Smith and the English people, Pocahontas symbolized the

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Jamestown colony\'s civilizing mission.

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