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WESTERN CIVILIZATION NAME ____________________________
TEST # 1D
1. The
"Late Middle Ages" is most normally associated with the time period:
a. 300 BCE to 300 CE
b. 400 to 1000
c. 1000 to 1300
d. 1300 to 1500
2. The
Hanseatic League was a group of towns joined together for mutual protection and
to win economic privileges in foreign towns and lands. lt was centered in what European Sea?
a. Baltic;
b. North;
c. Mediterranean;
d. Agean.
3. A
university student in the Middle Ages would most likely have studied to be a a.
teacher; b. knight; c. priest/minister; d. philosopher.
4. I
believe the chicken came before the egg, the tree does make a noise when it
falls in the forest. I believe ideas
exist and are more real than their physical-worldly manifestations. I further believe in dogdom, tabledom, and
that an infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin. I love Plato. I am a medieval
a. Nominalist;
b. Realist;
c. Ontologist;
d. Gnostic.
5.
Augustine was one of the most brilliant intellects of the Middle
Ages. His great work was
a.
Sic et Non;
b. Summa Theologica; c. A Man and His God; d. City of God.
6. He was
a large man, over six feet tall, with piercing eyes, a robust physique, and a
restless spirit. Although he was never
able to lear how to read or write he presided over a renewal of trade and
culture. He was .
a.
Frederick Barbarossa;
b. Richard the Lion-Hearted;
c. Charlemagne;
d. Philip Augustus of France.
7. Which
Pope came first?
a, Boniface VIII
b. Innocent III
c. Gregory VII
d. Gregory I
8. What
was the name of the political and religious sect often persecuted as heretical
by the majority of Muslims, that believed that the legitimate leadership of
Islam could come only from the house of Ali?
a. Abbasidism;
b. Harism
c. Umayyadism;
d. Shi’ ism.
9. The
Byzantine Empire was descended from the: a. Eastern Roman Empire;
b. Seljuk Turks;
c. Sassanid Empire ;
d. Southern Roman Empire.
10. Who
was not a Roman Emperor?
a. Augustus;
b. Mark Anthony;
c. Hadrian;
d. Tiberius.
11. Which
was not a Germanic tribe that invaded the Roman Empire?
a. Lombards;
b. Huns;
c. Franks;
d. Visigoths.
12. The
Cluniac movement was a.
a movement for monastic reform; b. a movement to reform the methods of
selecting the pope; c. an effort to strengthen papal authority; d.
an effort to guarantee an Italian pope.
13. The
most ambitious proponent of the Cluniac
movement and the man who directed all his energies against simony and lay
investiture was a. Innocent III; b. St. Francis; c. Gregory VII; d. Henry IV.
14. The
lay investiture controversy shows, best a. the disagreement between secular rulers and
Church over the power to appoint ecclesiastical officials;
b. the unhappiness of the Germans over sending
church money to Rome; c. a hatred of canon law; d. the Church's refusal to relinquish the
'benefit of clergy."
15. The
pope who proclaimed the First Crusade was a. Pius VII; b.
Gregory the Great; c.
John IV; d. Urban II
16. The
most “infamous” of the seven major crusades was a. the First Crusade; b. the Seventh Crusade; c. the Third Crusade; d. the Fourth Crusade.
17.
Donatists, Pelegians, Arians, Gnosticism are all
a. Popes
b. Heresies
c. Bishops
d. Viking tribes
18. The
most important difference between Benedictine monasticism and Franciscan
monasticism was that the Benedictine rule was a. opposed to poverty while the Franciscans
were not;
b. allowed to marry while the Franciscans were
not;
c. done in a secluded community while the
Franciscans went out into the world;
d. not accepted by the Pope while the Franciscans
were.
19. The
Jewish community at the time of Christ was made up of three basic groups.
a. the Sadducees, Essenes, and the Gnostics;
b. the Gnostics, Agnostics and the Prognostics;
c. the Sadducees, the Saracins, and the
Essenes;
d. the Sadducees, the Pharisees and the
Essenes.
20.
Christianity spread beyond its origins as a Jewish sect because of the
work of this man
a. Joshua of Gaul; b. Paul
of Tarsus; c.
Hadrian the Great; d.
James of York.
21. The crusader states were protected by a. the Byzantine
empire; b. the pope; c.
the Venetian merchants; d.
semi-monastic military orders.
22. During the early Middle Ages most education took place a. in
the courts of the nobles; b.
in town halls; c.
at the court of the Holy Roman emperor; d. in monasteries.
23. By the seventh century, ________ was left almost
exclusively in the hands of the Jews
a. service in
state bureaucracies;
b. manuscript
illumination;
c. bread
manufacture;
d. long-distance
commerce.
24. Charlemagne’s empire included
a. Spain, Italy
and France;
b. large parts of
the western Roman empire;
c. most of the
eastern and western Roman empire;
d. Britain,
France and Italy.
25. The supreme expression of Viking culture was
a. illustrated
manuscripts;
b. the longboat;
c. highly
decorated and stylized vases;
d. colossal
buildings.
26. What correctly explains the relationship between the Vandals and
the Germans?
a. Vandals are a
Roman clan and Germans a specific set of tribes;
b. Vandals are a
specific German tribe;
c. Germans are a
specific Vandals tribe;
d. the Vandals
are not a German tribe.
27. What is the relationship
between Muhammad and Allah?
a. Muhammad is
the son of Allah;
b. Muhammad is greater than Allah;
c. Muhammad is
the divinely appoint prophet of Allah;
d. Muhammad is
the human form of Allah.
28. All of the following were obligations of the serfs, EXCEPT
a. paying rent on
the land they farmed;
b. repairing the
lord’s castle;
c. providing 40
days of military service;
d. working the
lord’s domain.
29. In
the Middle Ages European kings frequently favored the growth of cities because
cities
a. provided the king with religious ; b.
provided the location of the great universities; c. could be developed
as military centers; d. provided most of the money the king to run
his state.
30.
Manorialism was:
a. the religious basis of feudalism;
b. the government of the agricultural village;
c. the economic foundation of the Medieval
period;
d. the combined religious, political and
economic order of the Medieval system
31. Which of the following statements best
describes feudalism in the eleventh century?
a. It was a strongly centralized form of
government with kings at the apex of the
hierarchy;
b. It was a society of intensely local
autonomous powers in which public order and
political authority were widely spread.; c.
It was anarchic;
d. The traditional bonds of kinship and
regional alliances were overthrown in favor of
lordship and vassalage
32. From
which two cities did the religion of Islam come?
a Rome and Athens;
b Bagdad and Alexandria;
c Constantinople and Damascus;
d Mecca and Medina.
33.
What is the Umma?
a the community that bonds tribes or clans who
accept Allah
b a nomadic Arab tribe which accepted Islam
c first
name of the son of Muhammad
d the journey each Moslem must make to the
Holy City.
34. A
Byzantine emperor of the sixth century who sought to restore the united
Roman empire was a.
Justinian; b. Nike;
c. Heraclius;
d. Leo III.
The following questions
come from: A WORLD UNTO ITSELF;
35. What is true about the cottars and villeins?
a. cottars were landless, villeins were not;
b.
villeins were landless, cottars were not;
c. both were landless;
d. cottars were better off than the Grenes,
villeins were not.
36. The village of Cuxham consisted of
a. 12
people
b. 125
people
c. 1,250
people
d. 12,500
people
e. 125,000
people
37. For the years 1290 to 1350 the yield of
grain at harvest was nearly
a. 1.5 bushel per acre;
b. 6.5 bushel per acre;
c. 20.5 bushel per acre;
d. 20.5 bushel per acre.
38. He was one of the most important village
officials. He represented the
king. He was the
a. reeve;
b. sheriff;
c. glebe lord;
d. coif;
e. village idiot.
39. The
land that was owned by the church was called:
a. minister’s domain;
b. tenements;
c. glebe land;
d. coif land.
The following questions
come from Mediaeval Society:
40.
Painter says Chivalry was brought into European society by
a. the Romans;
b. the Franks;
c. both the Romans and Franks;
d. the Arabs.
41. The
gift of land from a king to an important lord was called
a. manor;
b. serf;
c. fief;
d. monastery.
42. The
main purpose of craft guilds was to
a. sponsor trade fairs;
b. write town charters;
c. train and protect members of the same trade;
d. encourage cooperation among guild members.
43. A
“troubabor” was
a. a wandering minstrel;
b. a merchant dealing in silk;
c. a general labourer;
d. a troublemaker.
44.
Chansons de geste were long narrative poems. One of the most famous was about?
a. Charlemagne;
b. Pope Gregory I;
c. Richard the Lion-Hearted;
d. Roland.
45. The
French scholars called it the grands
defrichement, or great clearing.
What happened with it during this time?
a. the churches were cleared of heretics;
b. the fields were cleared of rocks;
c. the roads were cleared of bandits;
d. the forest were cleared.
TIMELINE: PLACE THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR ORDER OF
OCCURRENCE
A. Third Crusade
B. Crucifixion of Christ
C. Scholasticism at its height
D. Charlemagne dies
E. Attila attacks Rome
46.____46.
first
47.____47.
48.____48.
49.____49.
50.____50.
last
EXTRA CREDIT: Show me how well you read the TEXT?
According to the Text,
The Palatine Chapel in Aachen “brings together a fascination with the
traditions of the Roman past with the creativity of a new epoch.” It was the favorite residence of
a. Frederick Barbarossa;
b. Charles the Great;
c. Philip IV;
d. Richard I.