A) denial of the validity of religion.
B) preoccupation with the pleasures and challenges of the life in this world.
C) willingness to accept different forms of Christianity.
D) active campaign against established religion.
E) return to Epicureanism.
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A) investigate.
B) rebirth.
C) renewal.
D) reconfiguration.
E) reintroduction.
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A) every level of society experienced more continuity than change.
B) radical changes in European civilization affected only the clergy.
C) radical changes in European civilization affected only the aristocratic elites.
D) the outlook and institutions of the Middle Ages disintegrated.
E) the outlook and institutions of the Middle Ages were strengthened.
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A) depicts Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek philosophers.
B) was painted to decorate the Vatican.
C) depicts classical grandeur.
D) assumed an essential harmony between Greek philosophy and Christianity.
E) all of the above
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A) the placing of greater importance on a person's birth
B) the placing of more value on what a person accomplishes than who he is
C) a rejection of personal ambition in favor of collective success
D) a narrowing of the notion of honor to include only military achievement
E) a simplicity in manner and tastes that continued to tie the elite to their roots
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A) included concern for the masses.
B) was an ideal that was open to both men and women.
C) included a drive to win fame and glory.
D) was an ideal that was open to both rich and poor.
E) all of the above
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A) experienced a prolonged period of decline during the Middle Ages.
B) was largely isolated from Europe until after the start of the Italian Renaissance.
C) put little emphasis on preserving and translating Greek and Latin manuscripts.
D) provided valuable support to the European Renaissance in the form of sources of ancient learning.
E) lacked great libraries and learning centers similar to those of Christian Europe.
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A) occurred when both individuals were very young.
B) tended to be increasingly rare.
C) tended to take place between older men who had made their fortune and much younger women.
D) were generally longer lasting due to increased wealth and improved living conditions.
E) were based on romantic love.
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A) Machiavellian.
B) civic humanism.
C) Erasmian humanism.
D) republicanism.
E) Romanism.
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A) man's dignity comes from the fact that God loved man so intensely that he became human and died for his sins.
B) a challenge to Papal authority after the disastrous fourteenth century.
C) a defense of republican government against the threat posed by the condottieri .
D) that God gave man the freedom to shape his own being.
E) that the human body was beautiful and should be portrayed in its natural state: nude.
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A) France and Spain
B) The Ottoman Empire and France
C) The Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
D) Spain and the Turks
E) France and the Holy Roman Empire
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A) the late fourteenth century.
B) the late fifteenth century.
C) the late sixteenth century.
D) the late seventeenth century.
E) none of the above
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A) indicated the humanists' belief that the ancients had the same worldly concerns as they did.
B) meant that humanists identified completely with antiquity.
C) signaled support for the clerical learning of the medieval period.
D) was undertaken for philosophical purposes only, rather than answering practical questions.
E) all of the above
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A) emphasizing the importance of rhetoric and moral philosophy.
B) emphasizing the purity of classical Latin as opposed to medieval Latin.
C) advocating the overthrow of the Holy Roman Emperor seen as another Julius Caesar.
D) defending the republican form of government.
E) rejecting Christianity and officially adopting Stoicism.
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