- Scholasticism is the tern used to describe the
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curriculum taught at medieval universities.
dominant guilds of Italian universities.
application of logic to Christian dogma.
production of scholarly texts in monasteries.
- Romanesque churches modernized this type of exterior decoration, which had been dead since the end of the Roman Empire.
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barrel vaults
groin vaults
stained glass windows
monumental sculpture
- Mark the false choice. Professor Weber explains that Gothic churches
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were influenced by the style and scale of Arab architecture in Spain and Syria
often reflected intense competition among cities.
generally neglected the murals and sculpture that had been important features of Romanesque churches.
could not be built until architects and engineers had perfected their methods of measuring and calculating.
- Which of the following was not one of the principle genres of vernacular literature during the tenth and eleventh centuries?
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heroic epic
courtly romance
romance novel
lyric poetry
- Which of the following is NOT correct. The system of royal justice created by Henry II of England
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used itinerant justices to investigate and punish crimes.
suppressed the baronial courts.
used juries composed of "good men" from the neighborhood.
marks the beginning of the system of common law.
- The Magna Carta does NOT contain laws concerning
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rights of inheritance.
feudal relief.
dignity and human rights.
the king's interference with the customary rights of the three estates.
- The Magna Carta addressed only the concerns of the
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serfs.
peasants.
bishops.
elite.
- Which of the following was NOT an ideal of Louis IX (St. Louis) of France?
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personal asceticism
more effective justice
peace with his neighbors
a lessening of royal pomp and authority
- The French Parliament under Louis IX differed from the English Parliament in that the French body was
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a representative assembly.
the Assembly where townsmen and lower aristocracy sat together.
a trifunal
represented by enqueteurs.
- The three major Christian kingdoms that emerged from the Reconquista were
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Castile, Leon and Aragon.
Castile, Aragon and Valencia.
Portugal, Aragon and Valencia.
Portugal, Castile and Aragon.
- In order to consolidate his power base, Frederick I sought to unify
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Italy, Germany and France.
Burgundy, Swabia and Lombardy.
Burgundy, Lombardy and Normandy.
Lombardy, Normandy and Aquitaine.
- In order to deal with the increasing problem of heresy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the church employed
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a policy of reconversion.
a crusade.
the Inquisition.
all of the above
- The Franciscan Order devoted itself to
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a life of poverty and a preaching.
pilgrimages to Egypt to preach to the infidels.
establishing universities in order to teach Christian orthodoxy to heretics.
assisting the papacy in the establishment of the Inquisition.
- Which of the following was NOT a goal of Innocent III?
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eradication of heresy
hegemony of the papacy over Europe
cooperation with secular European monarchs in all matters
clarification of Christian discipline and belief
- The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215
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identified only baptism and the Eucharist as sacraments.
.removed the obligations of yearly confession and communion.
defined the dogma of transubstantiation.
forbade the veneration of relics.
- Medieval guilds provided ALL BUT which of the following?
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welfare services for members and their families
enrichment of the social life of the membership
a contribution to the education of women by ensuring that most girls could become part of the apprenticeship system
maintenance of quality control over the product
- Besides a strong tradition of constitutionalism, the thirteenth century's other long-lasting contribution to Western political tradition was
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great estates.
absolute monarchy.
individual democracy.
the representative assembly.
- Which was not among the legal innovations of thirteenth-century kings of England?
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The issuing of Statues of the Realm.
Regulating of land law and inheritance law.
Abolishing juries in favor of decisions by judges.
The use of parliaments to authorize taxation for the whole realm.
- Which of the following measures was adopted by the popes at Avignon to deal with the papacy's fiscal crisis?
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imposition of a special tax on appointees to high ecclesiastical offices
the selling of dispensations that exempted individuals from the normal requirements of canon law
the selling of indulgences
all of the above
- The works of Aquinas and Dante and the builders of the Gothic cathedrals shared all of the following qualities EXCEPT
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a sense of divine order and harmony.
respect for human reason.
a desire to address many different aspects of human experience.
a belief that Christian teachings were one of many paths toward realizing God's truths.
- The Black Death
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was a pandemic that afflicted all of Europe.
struck repeatedly throughout the course of the fourteenth century.
was the principal factor in the loss of between one-half and two-thirds of the pre-plague European population.
all of the above.
- The frequent famines of the fourteenth century resulted from
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poor estimates by the authorities of the amount of food necessary to feed the population.
the inability of European agriculture to meet the needs of the growing population.
the introduction of new crops from the East that people in western Europe did not like to eat.
the failure of the potato crop.
- Which of the following was a result of the fourteenth century demographic crisis?
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In the long run grain prices declined.
The scarcity of labor to work the land made it possible for peasants to demand better terms and longer leases.
Many landlords converted their land from cultivated fields to pastures.
all of the above
- Measures taken in an effort to control rising urban wages included
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locking workers out of the shops until they agreed to accept lower wages.
the development of employers' associations to oppose the workers' demands.
government legislation fixing wages and requiring laborers to accept jobs at those wages.
hiring women at approximately half the wages earned by men.
- The Hanseatic League was created in the fourteenth century to
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give German cities a monopoly over Baltic trade.
try to end Muslim control of the spice trade.
compete with the English in the manufacture of wool cloth.
defend the German cities against discrimination by the Holy Roman Empire.
- The introduction of the printing press in the fifteenth century
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made books accessible to a larger segment of the population.
resulted from Gutenberg's desire to spread the ideas of the Protestant reformers
was confined to Germany, where it was invented.
had little impact on scholarship.
- Urban and rural revolts of the fourteenth century occurred because of
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the threat that workers felt to their improving social status.
the psychological tensions of the times.
Christian teachings concerning private property and social inequality.
all of the above
- Mark the FALSE choice. By the end of the Hundred Years War
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the English had been driven almost completely from the continent.
the population of France was between one-third and one-half of what it had been a century and a half before.
the French had captured London.
cannons and fire arms were playing a significant part in warfare.
- Mark the FALSE choice. Each of the following developments was an important step on the path to national unity:
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the French were able to expel the English from nearly all of their bases on the continent.
the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile brought two of the largest kingdoms on the Iberian peninsula into one dynasty.
the pope was able to unify the various factions on the Italian peninsula.
the French kings were able to finance long-service professional armies.
- Mark the FALSE choice. The prolonged warfare of the Hundred Years War
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led monarchs to develop long-service, professional armies to replace the feudal levies.
forced monarchs to levy heavier taxes, often through representative institutions.
resulted in part from civil wars within France.
removed the French and English aristocracy from the leadership of their countries' armies.
- The chief concern of humanist education was to
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train people in Scholastic thought.
educate teachers and theologians.
teach people a trade.
help people to live better lives.
- Which of the following can be found in the writings of Petrarch?
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the idealization of the world of ancient Rome
a dismal opinion of his own times
admiration for mastery of the written and spoken word
all of the above
- The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is
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a realistic portrait of fourteenth-century life and society.
an account of the Black Death.
a recounting of the author's love for Fiammetta.
considered a work of literary realism for its frank and frequent treatment of sex.
- Civic humanists in Florence under the leadership of Colucio Salutati
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stressed the importance of participation in public affairs.
insisted that all residents of Florence must be allowed to take part in public life.
emphasized the importance of the republican form of government.
a and c
- The Florentine Neoplatonists
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believed that Platonic thought was contradictory and superior to Christian thought.
believed that Platonic philosophy and Christian belief were reconcilable parts of a single truth.
were encouraged to continue their studies by the papacy.
emphasized the equality of all beings in God's universe.
- Masaccio, Donatello, and Brunelleschi, Florentines of the early Renaissance,
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rejected works of the ancient world as models for the new art.
were unable to master sculpting and engineering challenges that the Romans had met.
avoided depicting the naked human form.
stressed balance and harmony in design, as well as the importance of the individual human figure.
- Which is incorrectly matched?
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Raphael: constructed dome on Florence's cathedral.
Michelangelo: sculpted David for the city of Florence.
Leonardo: engineer as well as painter.
Titian: preeminent portrait painter of Europe
- Mark the FALSE choice. In videolesson 25, Professor Weber argues that the portrait of the Arnolfinis
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was painted with a realism and precision in keeping with a secular society.
was painted with a rationalism that rejected religious symbolism.
portrays a couple who are not ashamed of the wealth.
depicts a bourgeois couple as though they were nobles.
- Which of the following was a new characteristic of artistic activity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
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lay people played a greater role as patrons.
the church lost its importance as a patron of the fine arts.
the works commissioned by lay people were based almost entirely on secular themes.
in spite of the growing market for their works, artists remained an impoverished group.
- A characteristic of northern European culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was a/an
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emphasis on knightly virtues.
fascination with demonology and witchcraft.
obsession with religious relics.
all of the above
- Which of the following is true of the Canterbury Tales?
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They are an account of English.
They emphasize the immorality and corruption of the clergy.
They criticize prejudice against women.
all of the above
- According to the text, the special prominence gained by women in late medieval religious life is demonstrated by the
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relatively high proportion of female saints of this period.
increased access of women to ecclesiastical office
widespread acceptance by the church of the Beguines.
increase in women's wealth, which gave them importance to the church.
- The devotio moderna was similar to Italian humanism in that it
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drew its chief inspiration from the works of antiquity.
reacted against the pomp and splendor of papal and other ecclesiastical courts.
addressed its message to lay people in order to help them to lead a higher moral life.
all of the above
- Popular dissatisfaction with the Roman Catholic Church in the early fifteenth century was due to the
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increasingly secular character of the papacy.
fiscal practices of the papacy.
moral laxity of the lower clergy.
all of the above
- Luther, after years of self-doubt about his own salvation, finally concluded that personal sin could be overcome by
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education and study.
good works and prayer.
extreme ascetic practices.
faith.
- Pope Leo X's immediate response to Luther's 95 Theses was to
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regard it as no more than a quarrel among monks.
excommunicate Luther.
demand that Luther's ruler arrest him.
immediately correct the worst abuses.
- Which of the following is part of Luther's mature theology?
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Justification may be achieved by faith alone.
The priesthood of all believers, which rejects the need for clerical intercession.
The rejection of those sacraments that are not scriptural.
all of the above
- Many German princes found Lutheranism attractive because
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it was organized in a way that provided order and authority.
it made it possible for them to confiscate church property.
it gave them greater independence form the Emperor.
all of the above
- Predestination, a central doctrine of John Calvin's theology, means that
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the Church is fated to be reformed constantly because people are corrupt.
all Christians are assured of salvation
those Christians who perform good works will be saved.
God has preordained the salvation or damnation of every human soul.
- The most important action of the Council of Trent was to
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provide a clear definition of Catholic theology, morality, and discipline.
allow clerical marriage.
bring about a temporary reconciliation with the Protestants.
adopt Protestants theological innovations.