DIRECTIONS:
statement is true or false. Write T if
the statement is true or F if the statement is false. For all false statements, write a corrected
As you are reading the section, decide if a
statement.
D
F
1. A key intellectual movement of the Renaissance was secularism.
A key intellectual movement of the Renaissance was humanism
2. Humanists used the works of Cicero as a model for prose and those of Virgil for
poetry.
3. Dante's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, is the story of two clowns in a medieval
circus.
4. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by a group of 29 pilgrims
headed for the tomb of Saint Thomas à Becket.
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5. During the Renaissance, studies were called "liberal" because of their non-
conservative approach.
6. In Renaissance art, God was the focus of attention.
7. By the end of the fifteenth century, Italian painters, sculptors, and architects had
mastered the new techniques for symbolically portraying the world around
them.
8. The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with three artistic giants-Leonardo
da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
9. The Flemish painter Jan van Eyck was among the first to use oil paint.
10.By 1500 artists from Northern Europe had rejected Italian techniques.