Atienza, Erica Jean Q.

GEC08
BSA1
MODULE 4: RENAISSANCE
Instructions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. Use blue pen. No erasure.
1. Who had a major influence on Boccaccio's work and life?
a. Shakespeare c. Chaucer
b. Petrarch d. Heath Ledger
2. Which work is largely considered Boccaccio's masterpiece?
a. Filocolo c. Decameron
b.Teseida d. Elegia di Madonna
3. What does Decameron mean?
a. Decameron's life during the Black Death c. Ethical and fulfilled life
b. Black Death in Italy d. 10 days' work
4. Which theme does Decameron follow?
a. A story about the moral and religious significance of the Black Death
b. A story about the dehumanizing of Florence's society
c. A story about Italian traders losing their battle to a Mongolian army
d. None of these apply.
5. What famous Painting did Michelangelo Make?
a. Pieta c. David
b. The Last Supper d. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
6. Michelangelo was commissioned to make a statue of a crucified Jesus lying across the knees
of his mother, Mary. This statue is called _____
a. Pieta c. David
b. The Last Supper d. Ceiling of the Sistine Chape
7. Who is the youngest of the four turtles?
a. Michelangelo c. Raphael
b. Donatello d. Leonardo
8. He traveled widely in Europe, and has been called “the first tourist”.
a. Donatelo c. Davinci
b. Michelangelo d. Petrarch
8. Considered a Renaissance Man because he was a sculptor, inventor, architect, and painter.
He was also famous for painting the Mona Lisa and Last Supper.
a. Raphael c. Machiavelli
b. Gutenberg d. Davinci
9. Invented the movable type printing
A More c. Holbein
b. Petrarch d. Gutenburg
10. Who made this
a. Donatelo b. Michelangelo
c. Davinci d. Petrarch
11. What is humanism?
a. The thought of an educated rebirth
b. The thought that humans are the most important thing on Earth
c. The thought that humans should be equal
d. The thought that all thin

TRUE or FALSE. Write the word VIRUS if the statement is TRUE and write the word COVID if
the statement is false, if false change the underlined word/phrase to make it true. Write your
answer on the space provided before each number.
VIRUS 1. Petrarch was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was
alive.
VIRUS 2. The Middle Ages and modern ages are of crucial importance in European history.
VIRUS 3. Medici is the clan that controls the entire Florence.
VIRUS 4. Michelangelo and Donatelo are the creator of David.
COVID, PIETA 5. Madonna visual expressions of popular concern with the emotional aspects of
the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

ESSAY: Write Your answer at the back of this page.

1. Discuss briefly why renaissance is considered as the bridge between middle ages and the
modern ages.
“Renaissance” literally means “awakening” or “rebirth.” It was a European cultural movement
between the 14th and the 16th centuries. The Middle Ages was a period from the 5th to 16th
centuries. Both eras were remarkably different when compared. The middle ages period began
after the fall of the Roman Empire. Renaissance is the period that followed the middle ages. It is
the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history. Renaissance saw drastic changes and
developments in many areas, such as cultural, social, economic, and political.

MODULE 5: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

# SELF ASSESSMENT
1. Sir Isaac Newton’s birth place and hometown
a. Cambridge c. Westminster Abbey
b. Woolstorpe d. Perimeter Institute
2. Newton’s greatest achievement
a. Reflecting telescope
b. Theory of Universal Gravitation
c. Publication of Opticks and Principia
d. Being the first scientist to be knighted
3. Which famous king did Aristotle teach?
a. Lynceus b. William
c. Jedediah d. Alexander
4. When Isaac Newton was three, his mother, Hannah Newton, married Rev. Barnabas Smith.
Which of the following circumstances of the marriage is not correct?
a. Smith legally adopted Isaac.
b. Newton never lived in the house with his mother and Smith.
c. Smith was wealthy and over thirty years older than Hannah.
d. Hannah had a son and two daughters by Smith.
5. There, Galileo made a famous experiment to disprove whose theory of downward motion?
a. Ptolemy’s c. Kepler’s
b. Aristotle’s d. Copernicus’s
6. Who was the first modern thinker to question 17gocentricity?
a. Brahe c. Kepler
b. Copernicus d. Galileo
7. Who was the real inventor of telescope?
a. Copernicus c. Kepler
b. Lippershey d. Galileo
8. The place where a planet is farthest away from the Sun in its orbit around the Sun is called
the
a. aphelion c. perihelion
b. perigee d. apogee
9. In 1616, what did the Church declare regarding heliocentricity?
a. That it was contrary to scripture, and should not be taught
b. That it deserved further study
c. That it was correct
d. That it should be taught in all universities
10. The farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it takes it to orbit around the sun.
a. longer c. shorter
b. same d, nothing change
11. Where was the sun in the Copernican system?
a. At the edge of the universe
b. Orbiting the earth
c. At the center of the earth
d. At the center of the universe
12. The farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it revolves around the sun.
a. faster c. remain the same
b. slower d, non of these
13. During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by
a. Ptolemy c. Galieo
b. Bacon d. Copernicus
14. Who of the following is a famous astronomer of the scientific revolution?
a. Toussaint c. Ptolemy
b. Karl Marx d. Nicholas Copernicus
15. What event really started the Scientific Revolution?
a. Copernicus' work on the heliocentric model
b. Newton's work on gravity
c. Bacon's work on the scientific method
d. Galileo's work on the orbit of the planet
16. What was the Scientific Revolution?
a. An era of political upheaval when scientists led rebellions against governments in Europe
b. An era that transformed the way that society understood the universe, which was based in
science
c. An era of military aggression against scientists as governments cracked down on science
d. An era that saw the very first theories about the way that the universe worked
17. Galileo is known as the “father of science” because
a. he performed experiments and analyzed the results mathematically
b. he developed an early evolutionary theory of how life beganhe
c. invented microscope to view small things
d. he determined the planets traveled in elliptical orbits
18. Which is NOT the alleged reason of Brahe’s death.
a. mercuric poisoning
b. urinary tract infection
c. hypertension
d. prosthetic nose
 MODULE 6: MESOAMERICA
Check Your Understanding (CYU): Write the following dates using the Mayas’ Long Count
calendar. Show the computation and send your answer thru e-mail only.
1. August 25, 2017
2. 4. November 17, 2018
3. December 2, 2013
4. 5. May 13. 2020
5. July 29, 2016
1. August 25, 2017

December 22, 2012 - 5 years × 365 days 1,825 days

December 22 , 2016
December 23 , 2016 - 7 mos × 30 days 210 days
July 23 , 2017
July 24 , 2017 - 32 days 32 days
August 25 , 2017
Total Number of Days 2,067 days
Number of Baktun - 13
Number of Katun - 0
Number of Tun - 5
2,067 ÷ 360 = 5.74
Number of Uinal - 13
5 tun × 360 days / tun = 1,800 days
2,067 days ÷ 1,800 days = 267 days
267 days ÷ 20 days/uinal = 13.35
Number of Kin - 7
13 uinal × 20 days / uinal = 260 days
267 days - 260 days = 7 days
Therefore, August 25, 2017 can now be expressed as 13.0.5.13.7 in a Long Count calendar.

2. December 2, 2013

December 22 , 2012 - 0 years × 365 days 0 days

December 1 , 2013
December 22 , 2012 - 11mos × 30 days 330 day
November 22 , 2013
November 23, 2013 - 9 days 9 days
December 2 , 2013
Total Number of Days 339 days
Number of Baktun - 13
Number of Katun - 0
Number of Tun - 0
Number of Uinal - 16
339 days ÷ 20 days/uinal = 16.95
Number of Kin - 19
16 uinal × 20 days / uinal = 320 days
339 days - 320 days = 19 days
Therefore, December 2, 2013 can now be expressed as 13.0.0.16.19 in the Long Count
calendar.

3. July 29, 2016

December 22 , 2012 - 4 years × 365 days 1,460 days

December 22 , 2015
December 23, 2015 - 6 mos × 30 days 180 days
June 23 , 2016
June 24, 2016 - 35 days 35 days
July 29, 2016
Total Number of Days 1,675 days
Number of Baktun - 13
Number of Katun - 0
Number of Tun - 4
1,675 days ÷ 360 days = 4.65
Number of Uinal - 11
4 tun × 360 days / tun = 1,440 days
1675 days – 1,440 days = 235 days
235 days ÷ 20 days = 11.75
Number of Kin - 15
11 uinal × 20 days /uinal = 220 days
235 days – 220 days = 15 days
Therefore, July 29, 2016 can now be expressed as 13.0.4.11.15 in the Long Count
calendar.
4. November 17, 2018

December 22, 2012 - 5 years × 365 days 1,825 days

December 22 , 201
December 23 , 2017 - 10 mos. × 30 days 300 days
October 23 , 2017
October 24 , 2018 - 24 days 24 days
November 17, 2018
Total Number of Days 2,149 days
Number of Baktun. - 13
Number of Katun. - 0
Number of Tun. - 5
2,149 days ÷ 360 days = 5.96
Number Uinal. - 17
5 tun × 360 days/tun = 1,800 days
2,149 days -1,800 days = 349 days
349 days ÷ 20 days/uinal = 17.45
Number of Kin - 9
17 uinal × 20 days/uinal = 340 days
349 days – 340 days = 9 days
Therefore, November 17, 2018 can now be expressed as 13.0.5.17.9 in the Long Count
Calendar.

5. May 13, 2020

December 22 , 2012 - 7 years × 365 days 2,555 days

December 22 , 2019
December 23, 2019-
April 23 , 2019
April 24 , 2020-
May 13 , 2020
Total Number of Days
Number of Baktun
Number of Katun
Number of Tun
2,694 days ÷ 360 days = 7.48
Number of Uinal
4 mos. × 30 days 120 days
19 days 19 days
2,694 days
- 13
- 0
- 7
- 8
 7 tun × 360 days/tun = 2,520 days
2,694 days – 2,520 days = 174 days
174 days ÷ 20 days/uinal = 8.7
Number of Kin - 14
8 uinal × 20 days/uinal = 160 days
174 days – 160 days = 14 days
Therefore, May 13, 2020 can now be expressed as 13.0.7.8.14 in the Long Count calendar.

Check Your Understanding (CYU):

1). 2.)
7 X 8,000 56,000

1x 400 400
 0x 400 400
5 x 20 100
5 x 20 100

0x1 0
12 x 1 12

ANSWER 500
ANSWER 56, 512
3) 4)

6 x 400 2,400

0 x 20 0
10 x 20 100

4x1 4 5x1 5

ANSWER 2,404 ANSWER 105

5).

5 x 8,000 40,000

5 x 400 2,000

2 x 20 40

 1x1 1

ANSWER 42, 041

a. 160, 403


160, 403 ÷ 160,000 = 1 1 x 160,000 = 160,000
403 ÷ 8,000 =0 0 x 8,000 =0
403 ÷ 400 =1 1x 400 = 400
3 ÷ 20 =0 0 x 20 =0
3÷1 =3 3x1 3

160, 403
b).2,645,840

2,645,840 ÷ 160,000 = 16 16 X 160,000 = 2,560,000

85,840 ÷ 8000 = 10 10 X 8,000 = 80,000

5,840 ÷400 =14 14X 400 =5,600

240 ÷ 20 = 12 12 X 20 = 240

240 ÷240 =0 0 X 240 =0

2,645,840

c). 35,004

35,004 ÷ 8,000 = 4 4 x 8,000 = 32,000

3,004 ÷ 400 =7 7 x 400 = 2,800

204 ÷ 20 =10 10 x 20 = 200

4÷1 =4 4x1 =4

35,004
2.)

SELF ASSESSMENT TEST

1. The Maya priests were supposed to
(A) decide when to plant crops.
(B) decide when people could marry.
(C) conducted important religious rituals and ceremonies.
(D) all of these
2. Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?
(A) To please the gods and get a good harvest.
(B) To use the temple.
(C) To establish the power of their city-state.
(D) To intimidate their gods.
3. Who was a very important god to the Maya religion?
(A) the god of Maize
(B) the god of the temples
(C) the god of dirt
(D) the god of wind
4. Ancient Maya astronomers used observations of the stars to determine
(A) the best time for planting crops.
(B) the best time for harvesting crops.
(C) when to have religious celebrations.
(D) all of these
5. What was the staple crop (most important food source) for the Maya people?
(A) Rubber
(B) Avocados
(C) Maize or corn
(D) Bananas
6. Which activity was most likely to take place at the top of the pyramid?
(A) holding school.
(B) holding a religious ceremony
(C) watching for invaders
(D) running a community meeting
7. What is the type of farming used in the rainforest where the vegetation was cut away then
started on fire to clear the land for planting crops?
(A) slash and burn
(B) terraced farming
(C) raised platform farming
(D) any of these
8. The Mayans were able to create a detailed calendar because of their advancements in
(A) astronomy and physics
(B) astronomy and agriculture
(C) astronomy and mathematics
(D) mathematics and art
9. What mathematical achievements is associated with the Maya?
(A) geometry
(B) fractions and decimals
(C) the concept of algebra
(D) the concept of zero
10. The ballgame that Mayas watched for entertainment was also
(A) A sacred ritual
(B) A game everyone played
(C) A test of intellect
(D) The way new kings were picked
11. What is the name of the number system that the Mayans used
(A) Decimal system
(B) Vigesimal system
(C) Place value system
(D) Arabic Numeral System
12. What symbols did Mayans use in their number system?
(A) dots and lines
(B) pebbles and sticks
(C) pictures and hieroglyphs
(D) A and C
13. Why did the Maya have two separate calendars?
(A) 1 was for religious festivals and the other was for farming.
(B) 1 was for the upper class and the other was for the lower class
(C) 1 was for the day and the other was for the night
(D) The different kings could not agree on just one calendar
14. What was the biggest problem with slash-and-burn agriculture?
(A) It wore out the soil
(B) It drained the swamps
(C) It destroyed the temples
(D) Wildfires spread easily
15. Maya writing is read from left to right and
(A) bottom to top.
(B) back to front.
(C) top to bottom.
(D) right to left
16. What led to the demise of the Maya?
(A) possible drought
(B) possible invasion
(C) possible overuse of the land
(D) possibly all of the above
17. On the spring and autumn equinoxes what special thing happens on the Temple of
Kukulkan (the Feathered Serpent)?
(A) Lava shoots out of the dragons mouth.
(B) There is a lunar eclipse.
(C) A snake like shadow appears on the side of the stairs.
(D) There is a solar eclipse.
18. Which of the following was NOT an achievement of the Maya?
(A) farming on floating gardens
(B) developing accurate calendars
(C) constructing pyramids and temples
(D) the concept of zero
19. How is the number 5 written in the ancient Maya number system?
(A) One bar
(B) Five dots
(C) Three bars and two dots
(D) Five bars
20. Which item was NOT invented by the Maya?
(A) a corn preservation system
(B) medicinal herbs
(C) terrace farming
(D) an advanced form of writing called hieroglyphics