HIST150 EXAM 2

Which of the following was not a result of the spread of the three-field system? A) A major development of industry B) A doubling of European population C) An expansion of European settlements D) A growth of freedom in agricultural areas, with the lessening of serfdom

A

Which of the following is not one of the Pillars of Islam?

A long guided study of Islamic theology before one could become a Moslem

In spite of its name, the Medieval Holy Roman Empire was based not in Italy, but in A) England B) France C) Germany D) Poland

C

Pope Gregory the Great enhanced the position of the papacy by doing all of the following except

Formally ending the Arian heresy through his theological arguments

The bulk of the tribes that invaded the Roman Empire after 400 A.D. were?

German

The tribe whose movement seems to have triggered the invasion of the Roman Empire was the

Huns

Justinian's effort to reconquer the western Mediterranean

Led to the reconquest of North Africa and a temporary reconquest of Italy

Choose the correct statement about daily life in the Islamic world

Moslem men were limited to four wives

MAIN RESULT OF DIVISIONS BETWEEN WESTERN CHRISTIANITY AND EASTERN CHRISTIANITY?

STRONG POWER OF POPE IN WEST, EMPEROR IN THE EAST

After becoming king of England, William the Conqueror A) Imposed a highly centralized feudal system in England B) Retained all the Anglo-Saxon governmental institutions C) Returned to France because he was only interested in looting, not in permanent occupation D) Proclaimed himself Emperor, successor to Charlemagne

A

Alfred the Great A) Ruled England, developed a strong administration, and promoted scholarship B) Wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People C) Conquered Denmark D) Succeeded Charlemagne as Emperor

A

An important immediate result of the Black Death was A) A major shortage of labor B) The end of the Hundred Years' War C) The transfer of the papacy to Avignon D) The Renaissance

A

Carolingian diplomacy A) Finally led to an 813 agreement with Byzantium that permitted him to use his imperial title B) Led to an irreparable breach with Haroun al-Rashid C) Led to the first Crusade D) Led to a breach with the Pope

A

During the Late Middle Ages A) The population of Europe was seriously reduced by the Black Death B) A good food supply spurred population growth C) England an France were at peace D) The papacy was extraordinarily stable, threatened by neither schism nor heresy

A

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor A) Focused his rule in Italy and Sicily, viewing Germany only as a source of revenue B) Dictated Church policy by appointing several popes C) Neglected Italy in order to establish dictatorial power in Germany D) Suppressed all traces of Moslem culture in his dominions

A

Pope Innocent III A) Was able to reprimand kings of England, Aragon, France, Norway, and Poland and insist that they obey him B) Preached the First Crusade C) Was deposed because he embraced the Albigensian or Cathar heresy D) Was murdered during the Investiture struggle by orders of the Emperor

A

Relationships between vassals and lords included all of the following except A) The vassal owed the lord unlimited military service B) Lords owed land and military protection to vassals C) The lord-vassal relationship gradually became hereditary, reducing the control of the lord over his vassals D) The lord-vassal relationship was considered contractual and could be voided if either side breached the agreement

A

The First Crusade A) Did not start after the initial Moslem conquest of Jerusalem, but four hundred years later, when the Turks defeated the Byzantines, causing some chaos in the Middle East B) Was entirely a movement of knights; the peasants refused to participate C) Succeeded because of the close cooperation between the Byzantines and the Crusaders D) Failed to take Jerusalem, thus occasioning the Second and Third Crusades

A

The Hanseatic League A) Acquired a monopoly on the Baltic trade B) Was centered in Flanders C) Was ruined by the economic competition of the Champagne fairs D) All of the above

A

The Investiture struggle became especially bitter in Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, because A) German bishops served as secular administrators for the Emperor, so he could not see his power of appointment fall into the hands of the popes B) The kings of France and England, gave the popes all they wanted, leaving the Emperor isolated and weak C) During the struggle the Emperor actually called on Moslem forces to invade Rome D) The popes succeeded in assassinating the Emperor, but the new Emperor exercised equal ruthlessness against the pope

A

The major problem faced by Alfred the Great in Anglo-Saxon England was A) A major Danish invasion that overran half of England B) The resurgence of paganism among a partially Christianized population C) The lack of officials to carry out royal policies D) The growth of serfdom, which left the peasants discontent

A

The medieval guilds A) Were organizations of tradesmen within the towns B) Were the name for the governing bodies of the towns C) Were organizations of runaway serfs D) Were associations of vassals intending to fight their lord

A

The obligations of serfs to the lords included all of the following except A) The duty to defend the manor house from attack B) Up to three days a week of work on the lord's land C) A portion of the cloth and garden vegetables produced by the women D) Erect buildings and dig ditches at the lord's command

A

The world raided and settled by the Vikings was vast. What is the only area on this list that was not affected by them? A) India and Arabia B) Russia and Constantinople C) Iceland, Greenland, and North America D) England and France

A

Historians have often criticized the concept of the "Fall" of Rome because

All of the above

The Abbasid caliphate

All of the above

The Islamic conquests succeeded in part because

All of the above

The Merovingian kings of France

All of the above

The Visigoth kingdom in Spain

All of the above

An important way in which the medieval world differed economically from the classical Greek and Roman world was A) Its population was far smaller, about ten percent of that of ancient times B) It was able to make better use of technology with its water mills and windmills C) Its agricultural system was far less productive D) None of the above

B

Anglo-Saxon England A) Remained pagan until well after 1000 AD B) Produced several remarkable intellectuals, such as Bede. C) Was the original home of the Vikings D) Was the original home of the Visigoths

B

As feudal society became more complex A) The complexities destroyed the feudal kingdoms B) The concept of the liege lord, to whom ultimate obedience was owed, developed C) It became illegal for a vassal to have multiple lords D) No vassal could create a vassal beneath him

B

During the early Middle Ages A) Viking invasion caused the collapse of agriculture B) Developments such as the three-field system and the horse collar meant that agriculture was actually improved from classical time C) Crop rotation was abandoned D) None of the above

B

John Ball and Wat Tyler were A) Physicians who wrote about the Black Death B) Preachers who led the English peasant revolts in the late 14th century C) Important late medieval theologians D) None of the above

B

Medieval Manorialism and feudalism were based on a hierarchy of mutual obligations. Which of the following relationships was not feudal or manorial? A) King and nobles B) Husband, wife, and children C) Lord and vassal D) Serf and lord of the manor

B

The Carolingian empire was shaken by a major wave of invaders. Choose the one group that was not among the invaders. A) North African Moslems B) Ostrogoths C) Magyars D) Vikings

B

The Carolingian intellectual revival included all of the following except A) Establishing schools in the hope of obtaining an educated clergy B) Undertaking scientific research C) Developing a curriculum that became a foundation of liberal arts studies D) Developing a standardized handwriting that is the ancestor to the modern printed alphabet

B

The English Parliament A) Was established by the Magna Carta B) Started to take shape with lords, bishops, knights, and townsmen under Edward I C) Was quickly dominated by the House of Commons D) None of the above

B

The Jewish communities of the early Middle Ages A) Were almost exclusively rural B) Began to engage in money lending C) Were usually organized into guilds D) Were systematically expelled from almost all medieval cities

B

The Third Crusade A) Was led by peasants B) Failed to retake Jerusalem, which had been captured by the Kurdish Moslem leader, Saladin C) Was led by Charlemagne D) Ended the Investiture controversy

B

The Waldensians and the Albigensians were A) Two major orders of crusading knights B) Two very different, but important sets of Medieval religious dissidents, or heretics C) The followers of the Pope in the Investiture crisis D) The followers of the Emperor in the Investiture crisis

B

The age of the invasions of the Magyars, the Vikings, and North African Moslems had all of the following results except A) Learning suffered when the attacks ended the "Carolingian Renaissance" B) The physical area of Western Civilization contracted C) The church structure deteriorated, as local lords often seized church lands or placed bishops and priests under their control D) The notion of a Christian Europe headed by emperors and popes collapsed as the empire fragmented

B

The development of France and England in the Middle Ages were clear instances of A) The growth of religious heresy B) The rise of centralized monarchies C) The growth of Scholastic theology D) The development of commerce in the Mediterranean world

B

The medieval concept of courtly love A) Was also applied to the peasants B) In literature, if not necessarily in fact, enhanced the position of women C) Tended to strengthen the bonds of matrimony D) All of the above

B

The peasants who lived on the medieval manor A) Could not use the forests as these were reserved for the lord's use B) Worked the land in long narrow strips rather than in large blocks C) Had much livestock, which provided a good amount of meat for their diet D) Did not use their livestock as a source for clothing

B

The society of the Vikings A) Differed radically from Germanic society B) Resembled early Germanic society, but tended to be more violent C) Was that of peaceful fishermen D) Was influenced by Islamic society

B

Which of the following was not a cause for the famines that struck Europe in the early 14th century A) An excessive growth of population B) Wars that killed peasants, destroyed grain, prevented harvests C) Too much reliance on marginal, poor-yielding lands for food D) Cold, damp weather that prevented proper plowing, planting, and harvesting

B

Which of the following was not part of the feudal, as opposed to the manorial, hierarchy? A) Lords B) Serfs C) Kings D) Vassals

B

THE FOUNDER OF WESTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTICISM THAT HAD GREAT INFLUENCE ON THE MIDDLE AGES WAS

BENEDICT OF NURSIA

The Shi'ites

Believe that the right to govern the Islamic World belongs to the descendants of Ali, the son in law of the Prophet

All of the following were true of the Roman Empire in the era of invasion except

Britain was able to hold out against the Germanic invaders

According to the text, by the end of the 13th century, the wealthiest and best governed monarchy in Europe was A) Spain B) England C) France D) Holy Roman Empire

C

During the Middle Ages, the Iberian peninsula A) Remained completely under Moslem control B) Saw the conversion of most Moslems in Spain to Christianity C) Saw the gradual "Reconquest" of most of the peninsula by Christian kingdoms D) All of the above

C

Medieval chivalry A) Required sexual purity B) Rejected the violence of tournaments C) Was a code of ethics that to some extent tamed the violence of medieval warriors D) None of the above

C

Medieval church reform A) Was opposed by the kings of France and England because it strengthened the power of the Holy Roman Emperor B) Was demanded by the Roman aristocracy to prevent Imperial intervention in the election of the popes C) Had as an important background, the intervention of Emperor Henry III who deposed three rival popes and strengthened the papal court D) Was undertaken without the support of the Clunaic monks because they believed that monasteries, not the papacy, should be the heart of church reform

C

Medieval towns A) Were often feudal fiefs B) Always excluded Jews from residency C) Became important centers of trade and manufacturing D) Were larger than their Roman counterparts

C

The Carolingian empire started to break up because A) Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, left only daughters, creating a succession problem B) The Carolingians divided their realm among their sons, creating small kingdoms in place of a large Empire C) The missi dominici staged numerous local revolts when Charlemagne died D) Charlemagne's coronation as emperor so upset the Byzantines that they staged a devastating invasion in the reign of Charlemagne's son

C

The Medieval Inquisition A) Was established by the Holy Roman Empire as a result of the Investiture controversy B) Inquired about conditions in the Holy land from returning Crusaders C) Came about because it was then believed that incorrect religious views could threaten not only the salvation of the individual but also of the community D) Demonstrated decisively that the Albigensians were not heretics

C

The coronation of Charlemagne as emperor A) Led him to move his capital to Constantinople B) Was performed against the will of the pope C) Took place when there was an Empress, but no Emperor, in Constantinople D) Was the major reason for the campaign against the Saxons

C

The effectiveness of the Carolingian administration rested primarily upon A) Charlemagne's renunciation of military campaigns in favor of a large bureaucracy B) Copying the Anglo-Saxon institution of sheriffs as the major local officials C) Charlemagne's designation of traveling inspectors, called missi dominici, to keep him informed D) All of the above

C

The essence of the feudal relationship was A) The ability of the lords to exploit the serfs B) The monetary payments made by the lords to their vassals C) The linking of loyal military service with the possession of land that would support that service D) All of the above

C

The medieval castle A) Was always built of stone B) Was usually erected in harmony with its environment C) By the 13th century was designed for comfort as well as for defense D) None of the above

C

The most important achievement of the Capetian kings of France was probably A) The defeat of the pope in the Investiture crisis B) A successful invasion of England that overthrew William the Conqueror C) Their expansion of royal authority by gaining control of most French provinces from the great feudal princes D) None of the above

C

The tale of Dhuoda, a lady of Carolingian times, illustrates A) The problems of the decay of Carolingian monasticism B) The horrors accompanying the Viking attacks C) The fate of aristocratic families caught up deeply in the civil wars among the grandsons of Charlemagne D) The scholarly achievements of the Carolingian age

C

Ultimately the Crusades A) Permitted the Byzantine Empire to regain the power that it had prior to the Turkish invasion B) Destroyed Mecca, delivering a major blow to the Islamic world C) Failed in their purpose, with the last Crusader state conquered by the Moslems in 1291 D) Established permanent Christian control over Jerusalem

C

Valdes of Lyon A) Was the leader of the Fifth Crusade B) Became pope Innocent III C) Was declared a heretic for criticizing the wealth of the medieval church D) Sided with Henry IV in the Investiture conflict

C

Watermills A) Did not exist in the Middle Ages B) Replaced windmills C) Provided a form of power that was rare or nonexistent in classical antiquity D) None of the above

C

Wergeld meant A) Trial by battle to determine guilt or innocence B) The process by which a person took an oath testifying to the good character of the accused C) A system of monetary fines for every offense from murder to insult D) None of the above

C

THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE MEROVINGIAN KINGS OF FRANCE WAS

CLOVIS

ROMAN EMPEROR WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY AND MOVED THE CAPITAL TO BYZANTIUM?

CONSTANTINOPLE

The capital of the Byzantine Empire was

Constantinople

Cyril and Methodius

Converted many of the Slavic tribes to Christianity

The Kievan Rus

Converted to Eastern Christianity under its ruler Vladimir

A late Medieval English critic of both the doctrines and practices of the Church was A) Geoffrey Chaucer B) Richard the Lion-Hearted C) Thomas Aquinas D) John Wycliffe

D

Gothic architecture A) Was started by the Goths B) Was noted for its dark, dreary spaces C) Was a form of Castle building D) Used such architectural features as pointed arches and flying buttresses

D

In the medieval manor A) There was included pasture, woodlands, and ponds as well as agricultural fields B) The peasants lived on the land they farmed C) The land was farmed in large blocks D) All of the above

D

It can be stated of noble women in the early Middle Ages A) That the church, by enforcing monogamy, enhanced the position of the wife in medieval society B) Wives often managed their husband's estates when the latter were absent on military campaigns C) They could inherit and hold land D) All of the above

D

Medieval universities A) Often arose from cathedral schools B) Developed from guilds--in this case guilds of masters and students C) Focused especially on law, medicine, and theology D) All of the above

D

Pick out the incorrect statement about Medieval trade A) Europeans traded with Moslems B) Numerous trade routes developed between northern and southern European countries C) The Baltic Sea became a center of prosperous trade, monopolized by the Hanseatic League D) It was mostly trade in necessities rather than trade in luxuries

D

The Black Death A) Originated in Manchuria B) Killed a third to a half of the European population C) Was transmitted by fleas D) All of the above

D

The Clunaic Order was A) A decree by Charlemagne raising taxes B) A famous book by Bede C) An administrative system developed by Haroun al-Rashid D) A reformed group of Benedictine monks who were accountable only to the pope

D

The English barons' rebellion against king John's abuse of feudal custom resulted in the A) Norman Conquest B) Investiture crisis C) Parliament D) Magna Carta

D

The Franciscans and the Dominicans A) Were medieval heretics who believed that the church should own no property B) Were orders of crusading knights C) Were orders of monks who followed the Clunaic reforms D) Were orders of mendicant friars who lived among the people rather than retire from society

D

The Norman conquest of England A) Had little real effect because it was only a change of rulers B) Led to the Investiture crisis C) Led to the rise of universities D) Ultimately remade England by making it feudal under French-speaking kings

D

The Treaty of Verdun A) Temporarily reunited the Carolingian empire under Charles the Bald B) Established peace between Charlemagne and the Byzantine emperor, who had been upset by Charlemagne's coronation C) Provided for the independence of the papal states D) Confirmed the division of the Carolingian empire

D

The adjective used by historians to describe the political and social relationships among the nobility in the early Middle Ages is A) Manorial B) Capitalistic C) Imperialistic D) Feudal

D

The apparently strong German monarchy of the Holy Roman Empire eventually foundered because A) Of the growing strength of major independent nobles in Germany B) Of the result of the Investiture struggle against the pope C) Of too much involvement in Italian politics that led the emperors to neglect Germany D) All of the above

D

The dominant ruler of Western Europe in the late 8th century was A) Clovis B) Bede C) Alcuin D) Charlemagne

D

The medieval serf was A) A slave, usually from outside Europe, purchased to do menial work on the manor B) A person who had no obligation to any other person in the social hierarchy C) A servant, specifically of the village priest D) Not a slave, but was bound to the land, forbidden to leave it without permission

D

The place where medieval trade fairs were held between the northern and the southern trade zones was A) Flanders B) Spain C) Italy D) Champagne

D

The whole system of Germanic law described in the text indicates that A) There was no concept that law was made by kings; they were supposed to be recording the will of the people B) Justice in the Germanic tribes was thought of primarily as vengeance C) The basic social unit in the Germanic tribes was not the individual but the family or the kinship group D) All of the above

D

Which of the following is not true of the Bubonic Plague and its consequences A) It showed that devastating diseases can move from animals to humans B) The disease also caused a breakdown of law and order C) It resulted in persecution of Jews D) Once the plague ended, it never returned to Europe 

D

Which of the following was not a characteristic of the Carolingian monarchy under Charlemagne A) A vigorous warrior-king who fought fifty-three campaigns, most of them successful B) An administrator who tried but ultimately failed to establish an effective mode of governing C) A monarch who promoted intellectual life, attracting some of the best scholars of his day to his court D) An attempt to conquer Constantinople to make Charlemagne a universal emperor

D

THE NAME OF THE JEWISH SECT THAT WAS CLOSED TO THE IDEA OF PUBLIC CHRISTIANITY?

ESSENES

The monastic movement founded by Benedict of Nursia

Established through its rule a balanced daily regime of work and prayer

NAME OF NOMADIC TRIBE THAT STARTED THE GREAT MIGRATION?

HUNS

Which of the following is not true about the Ostogothic kingdom?

It rulers briefly united the entire Roman Empire

According to the text, the two greatest scientific advances in the Islamic world were in

Mathematics and medicine

Before Muhammad

Mecca was already an important trading city with connections to Egypt

To defend the empire, Byzantine rulers did all of the following except

Prefer to use force rather than diplomacy to solve international relations

The popes began to claim spiritual authority over the Christian Church because

Some New Testament texts could be cited in support of this idea

After numerous wanderings, the Germanic Visigoths, who had started in Eastern Europe, settled in

Spain

During his lifetime, Muhammad

Spread his religious beliefs to the Bedouin tribes from his headquarters in Medina

The Islamic world created a unified culture in the areas of conquest for all of the following reasons except

The elimination of all non-Islamic religions

Muhammad declared that he was

The proper prophet of God, rescuing the divine message from Christian and Jewish distortions

In what important way did the Byzantine world and the West separate themselves from each other?

The west rejected the iconoclastic religious ideas of the Emperor Leo III, leading to the long-lasting religious disputes

THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR JUSTINIAN

UNDERTOOK A MAJOR CODIFICATION OF LAWS THAT HAS INFLUENCED LAW TO THE PRESENT

Unlike the imperial government in Rome, the imperial government in Constantinople

Used eunuchs in both civil and church administration

The Byzantine Empire

Was an eastern continuation of the Roman Empire

A major political question that divided Moslems after the death of the Prophet was

Whether the caliphate should belong to the descendants of the Prophet and Ali, his son in law

A new Moslem empire of the 14th century and beyond, based in Asia Minor and conquering much of the Balkans was that of the A) Ottomans B) Mongols C) Arabs D) Abbasids

a

During the Renaissance the papacy A) Was dominated by popes who were often great patrons of the arts, though not always very religious or moral B) Attempted to dominate the Holy Roman Empire C) Opposed the Renaissance, burning several important Florentine intellectuals at the stake D) Was virtually a satellite of France

a

For seventy years, the popes lived, not in Rome, but in A) Avignon B) Venice C) Paris D) Florence

a

The Renaissance A) Was known for major new trends in literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture B) Came to an end because of the bubonic plague C) Was the era in which Medieval chivalry reached its peak D) Rejected the culture of the Greek and Roman worlds as not worth knowing

a

The Renaissance began in A) Italy B) France C) England D) Germany

a

The economy of the Renaissance A) Saw a very profitable banking business develop B) Saw major declines in the wool and silk industries C) Saw the trade of Venice decline and shift to Milan D) All of the above

a

The great dome of the cathedral of Florence A) Was designed by Brunelleschi B) Was a reproduction of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome C) Collapsed because of poor design D) Was the only one built during the Renaissance

a

The printing press was developed by A) Gutenberg B) Petrarch C) Salutati D) Giotto

a

By 1428, England seemed to be on the verge of complete victory in the Hundred Years' War because A) Joan of Arc had defected from the French to the English side B) The king of France, defeated at Agincourt, had promised that the son of Henry V of England should be the next king of France C) The duke of Burgundy, the most powerful supporter of the king of France, had been killed in battle D) None of the above

b

Genghis Khan was A) The Ottoman leader who conquered Constantinople B) The Mongol leader who united many tribes and conquered large parts of Asia C) The founder of the Moscow state D) A late Medieval heretic

b

Growing antisemitism in the 14th and 15th centuries was expressed by all of the following except A) Laws restricting Jews to specific parts of cities B) The refusal of Poland and Russia to admit Jews C) The expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 D) Laws requiring Jews to wear clothing that identified them as Jews

b

Renaissance painters A) Rejected realism and the full range of human expression B) Developed the technique of linear perspective so that the viewer was drawn into the painting that he viewed. C) Regarded mathematical and optical accuracy as unworthy of a great artist's attention D) None of the above

b

The Hundred Years' War A) Led to an English triumph over France because of the crushing English military victories at Crécy and Agincourt B) Led to a major French triumph, with the English confined only to the coastal city of Calais C) Led to the Great Schism because France and England deliberately set up favorable popes in their own territories D) Led to the development of religious heresies because the war disrupted Church life, making the Inquisition ineffective

b

The Renaissance has been controversial among historians because A) Historians have made major chronological errors in their narrative of events, casting the whole concept into doubt B) Renaissance intellectuals overstated their case, underestimating Medieval interest in the classics C) Some Renaissance intellectuals actually rejected classical literature D) None of the above

b

The core of Renaissance Humanism was A) Systematic theological study B) The study of history, literature, and philosophy, especially that of the Greeks and Romans C) A conscious attempt to imitate the virtues of the Germanic invaders of the Roman Empire D) A great admiration for the cultural achievements of Mesopotamian civilization

b

The figure who, more than anyone else, personified the "Renaissance Man" was A) Michelangelo B) Leonardo da Vinci C) Machiavelli D) Brunelleschi

b

The victorious Ottoman sultan, Mehemed II, conquered A) The Mongol Empire B) The Byzantine Empire C) The Crusader States D) The Holy Roman Empire

b

All of the following are true about the rise of Moscow except A) Ivan I made himself wealthy by collecting the Mongol tribute within Russia B) Ivan III by a victory over the Mongols in 1480, effectively ended Mongol domination over most of Russia C) Ivan III extended his dominions into central Europe D) Ivan III married the niece of the last Byzantine emperor and regarded himself and the successor of the Byzantine emperors

c

During the Renaissance, the city of Florence A) Maintained a large population because it was spared from the bubonic plague B) Was epitomized by Savanarola, a Renaissance humanist noted for his nude sculptures C) Was controlled by the Medici family, who were major patrons of the arts. D) All of the above

c

In his famous book, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli argued that A) Princes must always show the virtues of charity and generosity B) Princes must be educated humanists in order to rule well C) Princes must be ready to discard ethical principles to succeed D) None of the above

c

Of the following literary and artistic figures of the Late Middle Ages, choose the only correct match of person and work A) Dante-a great Flemish painter, known for portrayals combining amazing realism with Medieval symbolism B) Boccaccio-Author of the Divine Comedy, a literary masterpiece influenced by Scholastic theology and Aristotelian philosophy C) Chaucer-English author of the Canterbury Tales, which provide a revealing look at Fourteenth Century society D) Jan van Eyck-author of the Decameron, a collection of tales told by Florentines living in a rural villa to escape the Black Death

c

Renaissance sculpture A) Was entirely confined to churches B) Never had a political message C) Shows an exuberant praise of anatomical realism, such as in Michelangelo's David D) None of the above

c

The Conciliar Movement A) Was an attempt to increase the level of spirituality in a declining Medieval Church B) Was an attempt to restore papal power to the levels achieved by Innocent III C) Was an attempt to end the chaos of the Great Schism, with its three rival popes D) Was an attempt to exalt the authority of the English Parliament above the king

c

The Ottoman Empire ruled over a large area that included all or most of the territory of several previous empires. Choose the incorrect empire on this list A) The Assyrian Empire B) The Byzantine Empire C) The Holy Roman Empire D) The Egyptian Empire

c

The Renaissance is often considered the beginning of a modern secular spirit because A) Renaissance scholars were so impressed by the works of Greece and Rome that they abandoned the Christian religion B) Renaissance artists with their emphasis on the nude, began a cult of the body that eventually denied the existence of the soul C) Renaissance scholars, though religious, were usually not men of the churches, monasteries, or universities-institutions dominated by religious thought D) None of the above

c

The Wars of the Roses A) Took place in France after the Hundred Years' War B) Led to the triumph of the feudal nobility over the crown C) Led to Henry Tudor becoming king of England as Henry VII D) All of the above

c

Which of the following architectural features became common during the Renaissance, but was lacking in the great Gothic Cathedrals? A) Flying buttresses B) Pointed arches C) Domes D) Stained glass windows.

c

Which of the following is not true about the Nominalist philosophy of William of Ockham? A) It became the most popular philosophy taught in the universities, the self-proclaimed "modern way" of thinking B) It argued that the existence of God could not be proved by reason and that God was not bound to act in a logical manner C) It arose in support of the heretical ideas of Wycliffe and Hus D) It rejected scholastic philosophy as a waste of time

c

A major patron of Renaissance art and humanism was A) The church B) Renaissance cities C) Wealthy individuals D) All of the above

d

Dante's Divine Comedy has been considered A) A medieval work because it incorporates both Aristotelian philosophy and the theology of Thomas Aquinas B) A departure from the medieval world because Dante was a layman expressing his view of the theology of salvation C) An anticipation of the classicism of the Renaissance because his guide to salvation was the Latin poet Virgil D) All of the above

d

Pick out the incorrect statement about Renaissance families A) Most classes of society emphasized family loyalty B) Men tended to outnumber women, reversing the Medieval sex ratio C) Marriages were very important in establishing alliances between families D) Children were usually spoiled, especially in the wealthier families

d

The French king known as the "Spider" by his contemporaries was A) Francis I B) Henry VIII C) Charles VI D) Louis XI

d

The city considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance was A) Venice B) Milan C) Mantua D) Florence

d

The first great vernacular author of the Middle Ages, Dante, composed the A) Decameron B) Summa Theologica C) Canterbury Tales D) Divine Comedy

d

The text calls the Renaissance a multifaceted movement. Which of the following ideas is not one of the facets? A) Realism B) A secular spirit C) Activism D) Romanticism

d

Which of the following was not a policy of Kublai Khan? A) He proclaimed himself emperor of China, founder of the Yuan Dynasty B) He employed non-Chinese officials, including Marco Polo C) He established his capital at what is now Beijing, then called Ta-tu or Khanbalik D) He promoted the cultural assimilation between his Chinese subjects and their Mongol overlords

d

William Shakespeare A) Was strongly influenced by the Renaissance in his plays B) Took advantage of Renaissance English social mobility in his rise to prominence C) Performed some of his plays at the Globe theater D) All of the above

d