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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 6

Renaissance & Reformation

New art, ideas and printing

What your child practises

The rebirth of art and learning in Italy, how the printing press spread ideas, the Reformation, and how questioning led to new science.

Yukon Curriculum learning standard: The Renaissance, printing press, Reformation and the beginning of the Scientific Revolution

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Leonardo da Vinci was famous as…

    • a sailor only
    • a merchant only
    • a king
    • an artist, inventor and scientist

  2. Question 2

    Put these events in order, earliest first.

    • 📚Gutenberg's printing press (about 1450)
    • 🐀The Black Death reaches Europe (1347)
    • 📜Luther's Ninety-five Theses (1517)
    • 🔭Galileo observes Jupiter's moons (1610)

  3. Question 3

    Who is credited with writing in 1543 that the Earth moves around the Sun?

    • Nicolaus Copernicus
    • Gutenberg
    • Aristotle
    • Marco Polo

  4. Question 4

    Renaissance artists used linear perspective to…

    • make flat paintings look three-dimensional, with depth
    • avoid using colour
    • paint only portraits
    • make paintings smaller

  5. Question 5

    Which Italian family was well known for supporting artists in Florence?

    • the Mongols
    • the Tudors
    • the Medici
    • the Vikings

  6. Question 6

    Before the printing press, how were books made in Europe?

    • Copied by hand, which was slow and costly
    • Read aloud from tablets only
    • Printed by machine
    • Made in factories

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