Chapter 6 - Christendom: Europe in the Age of Faith

Question 1

What was formed by the Catholic Church as the sole body responsible for the election of popes?

Answer 1

The College of Cardinals

Question 2

Which of the following was a key issue in medieval history between Church and state?

Answer 2

The question of who had supreme authority in Christendom

Question 3

According to the medieval Catholic Church, the place where souls went to be purified was known as ______

Answer 3

Purgatory

Question 4

Which of the following is not a subject that Hildegard is credited with writing about?

Answer 4

Cooking

Question 5

Who was the founder of the Franciscans?

Answer 5

Who was the founder of the Franciscans?

Question 6

The papal treasury was referred to as the
_____

Answer 6

Camera

Question 7

Roman Catholic church leaders and monarchs came into conflict over which of the following issues?

Answer 7

Taxation, Selection and ordination of priests and the justice system

Question 8

According to the Church, what determined whether or not a person’s soul went to heaven?

Answer 8

Conduct on earth

Question 9

The three types of medieval religious drama include which of the following?

Answer 9

Mystery play, Miracle play and Morality play

Question 10

Hildegard achieved the rank of
_________ which is the female head of a convent.

Answer 10

Abbess

Question 11

What landmark epic poem was written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri?

Answer 11

Divine Comedy

Question 12

What characteristics are true of the Franciscan Order?

Answer 12

Renounced luxury and worked among the people

Question 13

What area of study was the focus at the university at Bologna?

Answer 13

Law

Question 14

Thomas Aquinas was a member of the ______ order.

Answer 14

Dominican

Question 15

Churches used relics to attract what group of people?

Answer 15

Christian pilgrims

Question 16

The walkway that was formed by extending the side aisles around the transept and behind the apse was known as the ______.

Answer 16

Ambulatory

Question 17

The western tympanum of many Romanesque churches featured Christ in what role?

Answer 17

Judge

Question 18

In what northern Italian city was one of the first universities located?

Answer 18

Bologna

Question 19

What size population was considered when a Gothic cathedral was being built?

Answer 19

All people in town

Question 20

Aquinas’s major contribution was known as _____

Answer 20

Summa Theologica

Question 21

What action did pilgrims, who hoped for a healing vision or a miraculous cure, often take?

Answer 21

Sleept near the saint’s tomb

Question 22

Where did Gothic style originate?

Answer 22

Northern France

Question 23

Radiating chapels were typically located at which end of a church?

Answer 23

Easten

Question 24

As they passed through the west portal of many Romanesque churches, Christians were reminded of the inevitability of sin, death, and _____

Answer 24

Judgment

Question 25

Unlike a Romanesque church, which was typically a rural retreat for monastics and
_________, a Gothic cathedral, was the focus of an entire community.

Answer 25

Pilgrims

Question 26

What figure dominates the iconography of Chartres?

Answer 26

Virgin Mary

Question 27

What features are characteristic of medieval paintings?

Answer 27

Gold leaf, Visual hierarchy to denote importance and Tempera

Question 28

Northern France is the birthplace of the __________

Answer 28

Gothic Style

Question 29

Where was musical notation invented?

Answer 29

Monasteries

Question 30

Identify the type of polyphony in which two voices move in contrary motion to each other.

Answer 30

Free organum

Question 31

The west portal of Chartres is called the ______, showing king’s and queens from the Old Testament and French history.

Answer 31

Royal Portal

Question 32

The “Dies irae” became part of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, known as the ______.

Answer 32

Requiem

Question 33

Which of the following explains one of the main purposes of medieval paintings?

Answer 33

To illustrate medieval manuscripts

Question 34

Which of the following did Benedictine Guido’s system of musical notation accomplish?

Answer 34

It paved the way for the compositional complexity that characterized medieval music after 1100.

It established a precise means of indicating shifts in pitch.

Question 35

What characteristics are common to medieval motets?

Answer 35

Polyphony

Melismatic melodies

Multiple texts

Question 36

Identify a few instruments common in medieval secular music.

Answer 36

Recorder, Psaltery and Tambourine

Question 37

What features characterize the music of Perotin, such as his piece “Alleluya?”

Answer 37

Organum and Polyphonic

Question 38

A short, polyphonic choral composition based on a sacred text is known as a(n) ______.

Answer 38

Motet

Question 39

What aspect was important to the instrumental sound of medieval music?

Answer 39

Timbre