Question 1

_________ was not a sacrament in the medieval Roman Catholic Church.

Accepted Answer

A)  Ordination of a priest 
B)  Baptism 
C)  Extreme Unction 
D)  Confession and Penance 
E)  Pilgrimage

Question 2

As the power of the papacy weakened after 1250,popular piety:

Accepted Answer

A)  decreased dramatically. 
B)  became formulaic as people used old and tired rituals. 
C)  became technically heretical as the papacy no longer had the moral authority to effectively lead Christians in Europe. 
D)  became markedly less spiritual and meditative. 
E)  found its strongest and most creative forms of expression.

Question 3

By the mid-thirteenth century,the pope called some crusades in order to:

Accepted Answer

A)  try to retake Jerusalem from Muslim rule. 
B)  fight against non-Christian peoples in the north of Russia. 
C)  defend Venice from attacks from the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. 
D)  support the political needs of the papacy. 
E)  defend Europe's borders in the East from invasion by the Mongols.

Question 4

The Vikings did not permanently colonize the eastern coast of North America in part because:

Accepted Answer

A)  eastern North America had no goods of interest to the Vikings. 
B)  their ships could not carry goods easily from North America to Europe. 
C)  it was too cold in northern North America to contemplate permanent residence. 
D)  they could find no land suitable for farming. 
E)  Viking relations with the indigenous people of North America were not peaceful.

Question 5

The Mongol Empire was the largest empire in history.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

How was a renewed fascination with the natural world reflected in thirteenth-century art and philosophy?

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Question 7

During the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the fourteenth century,the papacy was:

Accepted Answer

A)  divided between two rival popes. 
B)  moved to Avignon, France. 
C)  disbanded for seventy-five years. 
D)  controlled by the Persian aristocracy. 
E)  removed from Rome to Babylon.

Question 8

What was the purpose of the early European colonies?

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Question 9

The Black Death was caused by:

Accepted Answer

A)  a virus called varicella-zoster. 
B)  a bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae. 
C)  a virus called rubeola 
D)  a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. 
E)  a virus called Variola vera.

Question 10

How did the Pax Mongolica impact the commercial and artistic development of Europe?

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Question 11

The thirteenth century had witnessed the development of the philosophical belief that the secular and spiritual worlds were rational,organized,and comprehensible to human beings.In the fourteenth century,William of Ockham:

Accepted Answer

A)  denied that human reason could prove fundamental theological truths. 
B)  confirmed such a belief. 
C)  argued that theological questions could all be resolved through reason, but questions concerning the natural world could not all be so resolved. 
D)  determined that human reason could resolve nothing with regard to the world, with the exception of the truths of mathematics. 
E)  argued that the only knowledge human beings could attain came through divine revelation alone.

Question 12

Mongol governance was directed toward:

Accepted Answer

A)  ensuring absolute rule over all subject territories. 
B)  creating a stable staffed by Mongols in all subject territories. 
C)  securing tribute from subject territories. 
D)  instituting taxes on trade and commerce in all subject territories. 
E)  centralizing control in a single ruler.

Question 13

The first European colonies established outside of Europe geographically were in the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Indian Ocean. 
B)  Pacific Ocean. 
C)  Caribbean Sea. 
D)  Atlantic Ocean. 
E)  Arctic Ocean.

Question 14

The leader who united the Mongol tribes and began the conquest of China was named:

Accepted Answer

A)  Qubilai Khan. 
B)  Ögedei Khan. 
C)  Temujin. 
D)  Timur the Lame (Tamerlane). 
E)  Lin Pao Khan.

Question 15

European art of the thirteenth century reflected a renewed interest in:

Accepted Answer

A)  the saints. 
B)  portraits. 
C)  children. 
D)  biblical stories. 
E)  nature.

Exam 10: The Medieval World 1250-1350