Question: Which Renaissance writer helped instruct kings and princes on how to run governments?

Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli

Question: How did use of the vernacular affect the spread of humanism in Europe?

Answer: The vernacular helped writers and philosophers reach wider audiences.

Question: People began to study classical thought during the Renaissance to

Answer: better themselves.

Question: Well-educated people during the Renaissance learned

Answer: classical Latin.

Question: Which humanist idea affected Renaissance society?

Answer: People are basically good at their core.

Question: A new idea that Cervantes celebrates in Don Quixote is

Answer: individuality.

Question: Which Renaissance writer was a humanist because of he did not focus on themes of religion, but rather realistic characters?

Answer: Miguel de Cervantes- Spanish author of Don Quixote

Question: In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri uses poetry to explore

Answer: the existence of life after death.

Question: How did humanism affect paintings during the Renaissance?

Answer: Paintings became more lifelike.

Question: Which experience did Baldassare Castiglione write about?

Answer: life in a royal court