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TEST # 1B 
1. The "Dark Ages" are most normally
associated with the time period, the
a. Early Middle
Ages;
b. High Middle
Ages;
c. Late Middle
Ages;
d. Low Middle Ages;
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 geographic region?
a. North Sea;
b. Black Sea;
c. Red Sea;
d. Baltic Sea.
3. Which Pope saw the papacy at its zenith?
a. Boniface VIII
b. Innocent III
c. Gregory VII
d. Gregory I
4. Which Pope battled with Henry IV, Holy Roman
Emperor, in 1077?
a, Boniface VIII
b. Innocent III
c. Gregory VII
d. Gregory I
5. Who was not a Roman
Emperor?
a. Romulus;
b. Mark Aurelius;
c. Trajan;
d. Caligula.
6. Which Roman Emperor divided the empire into
eastern and western parts?
a. Constantine;
b. Diocletian;
c. Augustus;
d. Julius Caesar.
7. Which was not a
Germanic tribe that invaded the Roman Empire?
a. Goths;
b. Vandals;
c. Saxons;
d. Sadducces.
8. Anthony of Egypt, Basil the Great and
Pachomius were all
a. Disciples of
Christ;
b. Early monks;
c. Roman officers
who attempted to take control of the Empire;
d. Jewish rebels.
9. In what way was the eastern Roman Empire
most different from the western Roman Empire?
a. the east was
more rural;
b. the west was
wealthier;
c. the east was
use to more centralized government;
d. the west was a
more
10. Which one of the following were medicate or
begging friars?•Mendicant or a.
Benedictines;
b. Domninicans;
c. Cistercians
d. .
11. Unam Sanctum and Clericis Laicos
were papal bulls which
a. identified the
early Christian heresies;
b. written by
Pope Gregory the Great establishing order in the church;
c. clearly show
that papal power is declining;
d. were two books
written by Augustine.
12.
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. Thomas
Aquinas was the most brilliant intellect of the High 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.
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.
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."
16. The most “successful” 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.
1920. 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.
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. Unam Sanctum and Clericis Laicos
are
a. early
Christian heresies;
b. papal
pronouncement made by Pope Boniface VIII;
c. the two
document Constantine signed to allow Christians to worship;
d. two books
written by Augustine.
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. Saladin
a. taught there
was no conflict between faith and reason;
b. commanded
Muslim armies in Palestine;
c. organized the
Hanseatic League;
d. was known for
his scientific experimentation.
26. What correctly explains the relationship
between the Lombards and the Germans?
a. Lombards are a
Roman clan and Germans a specific set of tribes;
b. Lombards are a
specific German tribe;
c. Germans are a
specific Lombards tribe;
d. the Lombards
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 would not be
considered a basic element of feudalism?
a. the religious element, the church’s support
of the king over the nobles;
b. the property
element, the receiving of land from the lord to fulfill the
obligation of vassalage; c. the governmental element, the private
exercise of the function of government over the vassals.
d. the personal
element, called lordship or vassalage
32. What
is the Hijra or Hegira?
It marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar
a. a holy war;
b. the prayers a
Muslim must say three times a day, aka the "Pillars of Faith";
c. the sacred
black rock in Mecca;
d. a short
journey Muhammad made in 622.
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. Cottars and villeins were
a.
feudal dues owned to the lord;
b.
free families like the Grenes;
c.
types of gilds;
d.
types of serfs.
36. In Cuxham there are no fences, the fields
are divided into parts or strips called
a.
coifs;
b.
harrows;
c.
furlongs;
d.
gallows.
37. Which is not matched with the proper
definition?
a.
tenement-a dwelling place lived in by one person but owned by another;
b.
excommunication-the penalty of expelling from the church;
c. fallow-an empty farmhouse;
d. subsistence farming-kind of farming whereby
all of the goods produced are
used by the farm family.
38. The glebe land was owned by:
a.
the church;
b.
the village workers;
c.
the sherif;
d.
Merton College.
39. One of the most important village officials.
He the king’s representative to the village.
He collected the king’s taxes and dispensed his law. He was the a. sheriff;
b.
reeve;
c.
miller
d.
Wigod.
The following
questions come from Mediaeval Society:
40. Chivalry included all the following, EXCEPT
a.
the ideal of courtly love;
b.
religious chivalry of the ideal knight;
c.
the ideal that a knight must be financially independent;
d.
feudal chivalry from the life of a feudal noble.
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
a.
officials of the king
b.
land grants given to nobles
c.
long narrative poems
d.
military weapons
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. First Crusade
B. Vandals sack Rome
C. Scholasticism at its height
D. Charlemagne crowned Emperor
E. Crucifixion of Christ
46.____46.
first
47.____47.
48.____48.
49.____49.
50.____50.
last
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