Question

Analyze how increased access to literature affected people’s lives during the Renaissance.(1 point)
Responses

Increased access to literature exposed people to information. They were able to evaluate this information on their own, without religious guidance.
Increased access to literature exposed people to information. They were able to evaluate this information on their own, without religious guidance.

Increased access to literature exposed people to information. They were only able to evaluate this information with religious guidance.
Increased access to literature exposed people to information. They were only able to evaluate this information with religious guidance.

People did not have increased access to literature during the Renaissance.
People did not have increased access to literature during the Renaissance.

Increased access to literature did not expose people to information because it was written in languages they couldn’t understand

Answer 1

Increased access to literature exposed people to information. They were able to evaluate this information on their own, without religious guidance.

Brief explanation: The printing press and more works in the vernacular spread books and ideas widely, raising literacy and enabling people to read and form independent opinions—fuelling humanism, scientific inquiry, and challenges to Church authority (e.g., the Reformation).