Question 1

2 out of 2 points Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad? Answer Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God

Question 2
2 out of 2 points Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders? Answer Selected Answer: It had natural springs Correct Answer: It had natural springs

Question 3
2 out of 2 points Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins? Answer Selected Answer: It housed images of their gods Correct Answer: It housed images of their gods

Question 4
2 out of 2 points What structure inspired the design of most mosques? Answer

Selected Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina Correct Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina

Question 5
2 out of 2 points Why do Muslims believe that the Qur'an cannot be translated? Answer Selected Answer: It is the direct word of God Correct Answer: It is the direct word of God

Question 6
2 out of 2 points What does the word Islam mean? Answer Selected Answer: Submission Correct Answer: Submission

Question 7
2 out of 2 points Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives? Answer Selected Answer: To provide protective charity Correct Answer: To provide protective charity

Question 8

2 out of 2 points Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year? Answer Selected Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles Correct Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles

Question 9
2 out of 2 points How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged? Answer Selected Answer: Longest to shortest Correct Answer: Longest to shortest

Question 10
0 out of 2 points Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)? Answer Selected Answer: They dress in coarse woolen garments Correct Answer: They write intense metaphorical poetry

Question 11
0 out of 2 points Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance? Answer Selected Answer: To remind visitors that they would enter the dark (die)

Correct Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space

Question 12
2 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall? Answer Selected Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement Correct Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement

Question 13
0 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people? Answer Selected Answer: So they could read aloud and sing in church Correct Answer: So more would enter the priesthood

Question 14
2 out of 2 points What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church? Answer Selected Answer: Barrel vaults Correct Answer: Barrel vaults

Question 15
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Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden? Answer Selected Answer: To sacrifice himself for the greater good Correct Answer: To kill the monster Grendel

Question 16
2 out of 2 points In the Song of Roland, why are the Saracens able to ambush Roland's army? Answer Selected Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon Correct Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon

Question 17
2 out of 2 points What in the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy made it a popular pilgrimage destination? Answer Selected Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods Correct Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods

Question 18
2 out of 2 points What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery? Answer Selected Answer: Beowulf Correct Answer: Beowulf

 Question 19
2 out of 2 points Why in 1066 did William of Normandy invade England? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king

Question 20
2 out of 2 points Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin? Answer Selected Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it Correct Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it

Question 21
0 out of 2 points Why was Bruges, in Flanders, such a desirable place to live in the late Middle Ages? Answer Selected Answer: It was a self-governing city-state independent of a king's control Correct Answer: Its people earned the highest wages in northern Europe

Question 22
2 out of 2 points What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile?

Answer Selected Answer: Christian faith and classical reason Correct Answer: Christian faith and classical reason

Question 23
2 out of 2 points Which of the following innovations was key in Gothic architecture? Answer Selected Answer: Rib vaulting Correct Answer: Rib vaulting

Question 24
2 out of 2 points Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery? Answer Selected Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student Correct Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student

Question 25
0 out of 2 points Why in 1179 did the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris start admitting nonclerical students? Answer Selected Answer: The Church withdrew funding of it Correct Answer: A papal decree ordered their admittance

 Question 26
2 out of 2 points Why did the Gothic cathedrals include flying buttresses? Answer Selected Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults Correct Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults

Question 27
2 out of 2 points What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house? Answer Selected Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ Correct Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ

Question 28
2 out of 2 points Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")? Answer Selected Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven Correct Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven

Question 29
2 out of 2 points On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching? Answer

Selected Answer: Socrates Correct Answer: Socrates

Question 30
2 out of 2 points Why was light vital to Saint Denis's design? Answer Selected Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God Correct Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God

Question 31
2 out of 2 points In what language did Chaucer write his Tales? Answer Selected Answer: Middle English Correct Answer: Middle English

Question 32
2 out of 2 points Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague? Answer Selected Answer: God's wrath against human sins Correct Answer: God's wrath against human sins

Question 33

2 out of 2 points According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what was a positive effect of the bubonic plague? Answer Selected Answer: Per capita wealth increased Correct Answer: Per capita wealth increased

Question 34
0 out of 2 points Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory? Answer Selected Answer: Dante considered Virgil the greatest of the pagan poets Correct Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason

Question 35
0 out of 2 points Why were England and France fighting in the Hundred Years' War? Answer Selected Answer: France wanted to claim Normandy from the English Correct Answer: England wanted to claim Normandy from the French

Question 36
2 out of 2 points Why did Chaucer complete only 22 of his planned 120 Canterbury Tales? Answer Selected Answer:

He died Correct Answer: He died

Question 37
0 out of 2 points Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic? Answer Selected Answer: It has a flat back Correct Answer: It has blue eyes

Question 38
2 out of 2 points Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena? Answer Selected Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin" Correct Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"

Question 39
0 out of 2 points According to legend, who founded Siena? Answer Selected Answer: The Roman emperor Augustus Correct Answer: Remus's sons, Senius and Aschius

Question 40

0 out of 2 points How does Duccio's Maestr break from Byzantine portrayals of Mary and the Christ child? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mary's body has substance, and Christ resembles an actual baby

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Question 1
2 out of 2 points Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad? Answer Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God

Question 2
2 out of 2 points Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders? Answer Selected Answer: It had natural springs Correct Answer: It had natural springs

Question 3
2 out of 2 points Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins? Answer Selected Answer: It housed images of their gods

Correct Answer: It housed images of their gods

Question 4
2 out of 2 points What structure inspired the design of most mosques? Answer Selected Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina Correct Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina

Question 5
2 out of 2 points Why do Muslims believe that the Qur'an cannot be translated? Answer Selected Answer: It is the direct word of God Correct Answer: It is the direct word of God

Question 6
2 out of 2 points What does the word Islam mean? Answer Selected Answer: Submission Correct Answer: Submission

Question 7
2 out of 2 points

Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives? Answer Selected Answer: To provide protective charity Correct Answer: To provide protective charity

Question 8
2 out of 2 points Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year? Answer Selected Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles Correct Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles

Question 9
2 out of 2 points How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged? Answer Selected Answer: Longest to shortest Correct Answer: Longest to shortest

Question 10
0 out of 2 points Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)? Answer Selected Answer: They dress in coarse woolen garments Correct Answer: They write intense metaphorical poetry

Question 11
0 out of 2 points Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance? Answer Selected Answer: To remind visitors that they would enter the dark (die) Correct Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space

Question 12
2 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall? Answer Selected Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement Correct Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement

Question 13
0 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people? Answer Selected Answer: So they could read aloud and sing in church Correct Answer: So more would enter the priesthood

Question 14
2 out of 2 points What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church? Answer

Selected Answer: Barrel vaults Correct Answer: Barrel vaults

Question 15
0 out of 2 points Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden? Answer Selected Answer: To sacrifice himself for the greater good Correct Answer: To kill the monster Grendel

Question 16
2 out of 2 points In the Song of Roland, why are the Saracens able to ambush Roland's army? Answer Selected Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon Correct Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon

Question 17
2 out of 2 points What in the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy made it a popular pilgrimage destination? Answer Selected Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods Correct Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods

Question 18

2 out of 2 points What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery? Answer Selected Answer: Beowulf Correct Answer: Beowulf

Question 19
2 out of 2 points Why in 1066 did William of Normandy invade England? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king

Question 20
2 out of 2 points Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin? Answer Selected Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it Correct Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it

Question 21
0 out of 2 points Why was Bruges, in Flanders, such a desirable place to live in the late Middle Ages? Answer Selected Answer:

It was a self-governing city-state independent of a king's control Correct Answer: Its people earned the highest wages in northern Europe

Question 22
2 out of 2 points What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile? Answer Selected Answer: Christian faith and classical reason Correct Answer: Christian faith and classical reason

Question 23
2 out of 2 points Which of the following innovations was key in Gothic architecture? Answer Selected Answer: Rib vaulting Correct Answer: Rib vaulting

Question 24
2 out of 2 points Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery? Answer Selected Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student Correct Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student

Question 25

0 out of 2 points Why in 1179 did the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris start admitting nonclerical students? Answer Selected Answer: The Church withdrew funding of it Correct Answer: A papal decree ordered their admittance

Question 26
2 out of 2 points Why did the Gothic cathedrals include flying buttresses? Answer Selected Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults Correct Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults

Question 27
2 out of 2 points What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house? Answer Selected Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ Correct Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ

Question 28
2 out of 2 points Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")? Answer Selected Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven

Correct Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven

Question 29
2 out of 2 points On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching? Answer Selected Answer: Socrates Correct Answer: Socrates

Question 30
2 out of 2 points Why was light vital to Saint Denis's design? Answer Selected Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God Correct Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God

Question 31
2 out of 2 points In what language did Chaucer write his Tales? Answer Selected Answer: Middle English Correct Answer: Middle English

Question 32
2 out of 2 points

Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague? Answer Selected Answer: God's wrath against human sins Correct Answer: God's wrath against human sins

Question 33
2 out of 2 points According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what was a positive effect of the bubonic plague? Answer Selected Answer: Per capita wealth increased Correct Answer: Per capita wealth increased

Question 34
0 out of 2 points Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory? Answer Selected Answer: Dante considered Virgil the greatest of the pagan poets Correct Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason

Question 35
0 out of 2 points Why were England and France fighting in the Hundred Years' War? Answer Selected Answer: France wanted to claim Normandy from the English Correct Answer:

England wanted to claim Normandy from the French

Question 36
2 out of 2 points Why did Chaucer complete only 22 of his planned 120 Canterbury Tales? Answer Selected Answer: He died Correct Answer: He died

Question 37
0 out of 2 points Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic? Answer Selected Answer: It has a flat back Correct Answer: It has blue eyes

Question 38
2 out of 2 points Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena? Answer Selected Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin" Correct Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"

Question 39
0 out of 2 points

According to legend, who founded Siena? Answer Selected Answer: The Roman emperor Augustus Correct Answer: Remus's sons, Senius and Aschius

Question 40
0 out of 2 points How does Duccio's Maestr break from Byzantine portrayals of Mary and the Christ child? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mary's body has substance, and Christ resembles an actual baby [None Given]

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Question 1 2 out of 2 points Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives? Answer Selected Answer: To provide protective charity Correct Answer: To provide protective charity Question 2

2 out of 2 points Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad? Answer Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Question 3 2 out of 2 points What does the word Islam mean? Answer Selected Answer: Submission Correct Answer: Submission Question 4 2 out of 2 points Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year? Answer Selected Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles Correct Answer:

The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles Question 5 2 out of 2 points What does the Arabic word masjid mean? Answer Selected Answer: Place of prostration Correct Answer: Place of prostration Question 6 2 out of 2 points How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged? Answer Selected Answer: Longest to shortest Correct Answer: Longest to shortest Question 7 2 out of 2 points Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders? Answer Selected Answer:

It had natural springs Correct Answer: It had natural springs Question 8 2 out of 2 points What is the hadith? Answer Selected Answer: Mohammad's sayings Correct Answer: Mohammad's sayings Question 9 2 out of 2 points Why did Mali's Mansa Moussa cause the value of gold in Egypt to fall in 1334? Answer Selected Answer: He distributed so much gold to the poor Correct Answer: He distributed so much gold to the poor Question 10 2 out of 2 points What structure inspired the design of most mosques?

Answer Selected Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina Correct Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina Question 11 2 out of 2 points Why was the wergeld (life-price) of a thane higher than that of a thrall? Answer Selected Answer: Thralls were slaves Correct Answer: Thralls were slaves Question 12 0 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people? Answer Selected Answer: So they could read aloud and sing in church Correct Answer: So more would enter the priesthood Question 13 2 out of 2 points

Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance? Answer Selected Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space Correct Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space Question 14 2 out of 2 points What advantages did feudalism offer the fiefs? Answer Selected Answer: Use of land and protection Correct Answer: Use of land and protection Question 15 2 out of 2 points Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden? Answer Selected Answer: To kill the monster Grendel Correct Answer: To kill the monster Grendel Question 16

2 out of 2 points Which of the following was not a motivation for the First Crusade? Answer Selected Answer: To free the enslaved Jews Correct Answer: To free the enslaved Jews Question 17 2 out of 2 points Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall? Answer Selected Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement Correct Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement Question 18 2 out of 2 points Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin? Answer Selected Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it Correct Answer:

More people would be able to enjoy it Question 19 2 out of 2 points What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery? Answer Selected Answer: Beowulf Correct Answer: Beowulf Question 20 2 out of 2 points Why did Hildegard of Bingen believe her plainchant brought heaven and earth together? Answer Selected Answer: Her extremes of register created soaring arches Correct Answer: Her extremes of register created soaring arches Question 21 2 out of 2 points What from Chartres Cathedral survived the devastating fire of 1194? Answer Selected Answer:

Mary's tunic and a window portraying her Correct Answer: Mary's tunic and a window portraying her Question 22 2 out of 2 points Why were Santa Croce, the Franciscan church, and Santa Marie Novella, the Dominican church, located at opposite ends of Florence? Answer Selected Answer: To emphasize the rivalry between the two orders Correct Answer: To emphasize the rivalry between the two orders Question 23 2 out of 2 points Why was "Gothic" as applied to France's new architecture originally a derogatory term? Answer Selected Answer: The Goths had destroyed classical traditions Correct Answer: The Goths had destroyed classical traditions Question 24 2 out of 2 points

Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery? Answer Selected Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student Correct Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student Question 25 2 out of 2 points Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")? Answer Selected Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven Correct Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven Question 26 2 out of 2 points Why was Louis IX so beloved by the French people? Answer Selected Answer: He abolished serfdom and private wars and reformed the tax structure Correct Answer: He abolished serfdom and private wars and reformed the tax structure Question 27

2 out of 2 points What relic did Louis IX purchase on Crusade in Constantinople to display at Sainte-Chapelle? Answer Selected Answer: Christ's crown of thorns Correct Answer: Christ's crown of thorns Question 28 2 out of 2 points Who created the first crche? Answer Selected Answer: St. Francis of Assisi Correct Answer: St. Francis of Assisi Question 29 2 out of 2 points Why did Pisano sculpt his Mary, Sister of Moses, which sits on the Siena Cathedral, to lean forward? Answer Selected Answer: So the viewers below could see her face

Correct Answer: So the viewers below could see her face Question 30 0 out of 2 points What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile? Answer Selected Answer: Salvation through faith or good works Correct Answer: Christian faith and classical reason Question 31 2 out of 2 points Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena? Answer Selected Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin" Correct Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin" Question 32 2 out of 2 points What was the main charge for which Joan of Arc was tried and executed? Answer

Selected Answer: Cross-dressing Correct Answer: Cross-dressing Question 33 2 out of 2 points Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory? Answer Selected Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason Correct Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason Question 34 2 out of 2 points Why did Christine de Pizan become the first female professional writer in European history? Answer Selected Answer: A widow, she needed to support her family Correct Answer: A widow, she needed to support her family Question 35 2 out of 2 points

What literary form did Petrarch perfect? Answer Selected Answer: Italian sonnet Correct Answer: Italian sonnet Question 36 2 out of 2 points Why were Siena's guilds able to rise to such levels of power? Answer Selected Answer: Siena was an important manufacturing city Correct Answer: Siena was an important manufacturing city Question 37 2 out of 2 points Why was Dante Alighieri exiled from Florence? Answer Selected Answer: For failing to mend a political schism Correct Answer: For failing to mend a political schism Question 38

2 out of 2 points Why is the Virgin Mary's crown in Simone Martini's Maestr significant? Answer Selected Answer: It establishes her as both a sacred and a secular queen Correct Answer: It establishes her as both a sacred and a secular queen Question 39 2 out of 2 points What is an advantage of the buon fresco (paint on wet plaster) technique? Answer Selected Answer: The paint becomes part of the wall Correct Answer: The paint becomes part of the wall Question 40 2 out of 2 points Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague? Answer Selected Answer: God's wrath against human sins Correct Answer:

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