Answer the Following Questions

question 45

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-New Christians

• A)Debate among writers and thinkers in the Renaissance about women's qualities and proper role in society.
• B)Sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds that sought political and economic independence from local nobles.
• C)A program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understanding human nature.
• D)Disenfranchised common people in Italian cities who resented their exclusion from power.
• E)A French word meaning "rebirth," used to describe the rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
• F)Northern humanists who interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes toward classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their own religious traditions.
• G)A term for Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula who accepted Christianity; in many cases, they included Christians whose families had converted centuries earlier.
• H)Magnificent households and palaces where signori and other rulers lived, conducted business, and supported the arts.
• I)Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups, and individuals, often to produce specific works or works in specific styles.
• J)Government by one-man rule in Italian cities such as Milan; also refers to these rulers.
• K)The quality of being able to shape the world according to one's own will.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Beta

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Risk-Free Return

The theoretical return attributed to an investment that has no risk of financial loss, often represented by the yield on government securities.

Arithmetic Average Return

The sum of the returns in each period divided by the number of periods, used to calculate the mean return of an investment over a specific time frame.