CSTU 101 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ To return to the principles underlying ancient Greece
Answer: What was the goal of the Italian Renaissance?
◉ Rationalism and Humanism
Answer: What two philosophies dominated the Italian Renaissance?
◉ Merchant Princes
Answer: Who financed the travel and commerce of the Italian
Renaissance period?
◉ Ottoman Empire
Answer: Trade with what empire allowed Italy to flourish during the
Renaissance period?
◉ Textiles
Answer: What industry did Florence specialize in?
,◉ Trade
Answer: What industry did Venice specialize in?
◉ Patronage System
Answer: What is the flexible system by which wealthy families and
individuals employed artists?
◉ Civic Humanism
Answer: What term denotes a belief that citizens were required to
balance their self-interest against their obligations to the common
good?
◉ The Medici
Answer: What was the most prominent Renaissance Florentine
family of merchant princes?
◉ Patriarch Cosimo Medici
Answer: Who received permission from the pope to mine a special
mineral for use in dye?
◉ Lorenzo de' Medici
, Answer: Under what reign did the renaissance in Florence reach its
height?
◉ The Magnificient
Answer: What name was Lorenzo de' Medici called?
◉ Plato
Answer: Lorenzo de' Medici claimed, "Without knowing _ , one could
not be a good citizen or a good Christian"
◉ Lorenzo de' Medici
Answer: What ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and
Michelangelo?
◉ 21
Answer: At what age did Lorenzo de' Medici become a leader?
◉ Medici
Answer: What name is now nearly synonymous with power and
political infighting?
◉ Lorenzo Ghiberti
GUIDE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ To return to the principles underlying ancient Greece
Answer: What was the goal of the Italian Renaissance?
◉ Rationalism and Humanism
Answer: What two philosophies dominated the Italian Renaissance?
◉ Merchant Princes
Answer: Who financed the travel and commerce of the Italian
Renaissance period?
◉ Ottoman Empire
Answer: Trade with what empire allowed Italy to flourish during the
Renaissance period?
◉ Textiles
Answer: What industry did Florence specialize in?
,◉ Trade
Answer: What industry did Venice specialize in?
◉ Patronage System
Answer: What is the flexible system by which wealthy families and
individuals employed artists?
◉ Civic Humanism
Answer: What term denotes a belief that citizens were required to
balance their self-interest against their obligations to the common
good?
◉ The Medici
Answer: What was the most prominent Renaissance Florentine
family of merchant princes?
◉ Patriarch Cosimo Medici
Answer: Who received permission from the pope to mine a special
mineral for use in dye?
◉ Lorenzo de' Medici
, Answer: Under what reign did the renaissance in Florence reach its
height?
◉ The Magnificient
Answer: What name was Lorenzo de' Medici called?
◉ Plato
Answer: Lorenzo de' Medici claimed, "Without knowing _ , one could
not be a good citizen or a good Christian"
◉ Lorenzo de' Medici
Answer: What ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and
Michelangelo?
◉ 21
Answer: At what age did Lorenzo de' Medici become a leader?
◉ Medici
Answer: What name is now nearly synonymous with power and
political infighting?
◉ Lorenzo Ghiberti
