Al- Jazari School Name:_______________________

Grade 7 (A, B, C & D) Social Studies Quiz Date: ________________________

Time: 20 min Score: ____/10

A- Choose the correct answer. _______/ 3

1. Which of the following was one of the reasons for the beginning of the Renaissance?
a. Constantinople fell
b. People wanted to live in Italy
c. No one cared about arts any more

2. Why did the invention of the printing press help in launching the Renaissance?
a. it helped people in having a lot of money
b. it helped in having more books and thus more educated people
c. it didn’t help at all

3. Why did the church lose power after the Middle Ages?
a. people started caring about individual thoughts and not blindly follow religious leaders
b. people stopped being religious
c. people died of the plague

B- Why did the Renaissance start in Italy and not somewhere else? Give two reasons and explain
them.______/ 3
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C- Humanism was one of the main ideals in the Renaissance age. Explain what it is in your own words
and state two facts about it. _______/ 4
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