50 Mutiple Choice Questions

Question 1

The Black Death refers to ______.

Answer 1

A virulent plague that struck 14th century Europe

Question 2

The Black Death_____.

Answer 2

Was preceded by years of famine that weakened the populace.

Question 3

Generally speaking, the Black Death moved____ through Europe.

Answer 3

North and west

Question 4

The Black Death found its way into Europe via____.

Answer 4

Italy

Question 5

The plague barely touched areas ways from major trade routes such as_____.

Answer 5

Russia

Question 6

Which of the following was thought by contemporaries to have caused the Black Death?

Answer 6

The Jewish community

Question 7

The Statute of Laborers____.

Answer 7

Limited wages to pre-plague levels.

Question 8

The French peasant uprising of 1358 is known as the____.

Answer 8

Jacquerie

Question 9

The Hundred Years’ War took place primarily in ____.

Answer 9

France

Question 10

The Hundred Years’ War was fought between ____.

Answer 10

England and France

Question 11

The use of the ____ gave the English the tactical advantage in the war.

Answer 11

Longbows

Question 12

The treaty of Troyes in 1420 disinherited the legitimate heir to the French throne and proclaimed ____ the successor to the French king, Charles VI.

Answer 12

Henry V

Question 13

Joan of arc was executed on May 30, 1431 for the crime of ____.

Answer 13

Heresy

Question 14

The papacy’s law court was called the ____.

Answer 14

Rota Romana

Question 15

Who reestablished the papacy in Rome in 1377?

Answer 15

Gregory XI

Question 16

Boniface VIII found himself locked in a struggle over the limits of papal authority with ____.

Answer 16

Philip the Fair

Question 17

John XXII tried to return the papacy from ____ to Italy.

Answer 17

Avignon

Question 18

Founded in 1348, the _____ became the center of Czech nationalism and a religious reform movement.

Answer 18

University of Prague

Question 19

_____ supported the Great Schism.

Answer 19

Charles V

Question 20

England was opposed in its stance on the Great Schism by ____.

Answer 20

France

Question 21

In 1409, the Council of Pisa ____.

Answer 21

Deposed both Roman and Avignon popes, and elected a new pope.

Question 22

Under the rule of Prince Vladimir, what city was the most important in Russia?

Answer 22

Kiev

Question 23

Wealthy landowners in medieval Russia were known as ___.

Answer 23

Boyars

Question 24

Between 1243 and 1480, Russia was ruled by ____.

Answer 24

The Mongols

Question 25

Golden ____ was the names for the segment of the Mongol Empire that includes the steppe region of what is today southern Russia.

Answer 25

Horde

Question 26

What happened to Europe’s population between 1000 and 1300, and why?

Answer 26

It doubled due to the increased food supply.

Question 27

The cultural response to the Black Death was ____.

Answer 27

Deep pessimism and a focus on death and dying.

Question 28

Among the social and economic consequences of the bubonic plague was a ____.

Answer 28

Shrunken labor supply

Question 29

What social group suffered the greatest decline in power as a result of the Black Death?

Answer 29

Noble landowners

Question 30

Peasant revolts in the period of the Black Death were triggered by _____.

Answer 30

attempts to reimpose pre-1340s economic conditions.

Question 31

Which of these was true of the impact of the Schism and the Black Death?

Answer 31

Both had the effect of undermining the church.

Question 32

What two traditional “containers” of monarchy were put on the defensive after the Black Death?

Answer 32

Landed nobility and the church

Question 33

Which of these statements best summarizes trends in England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

Answer 33

Royal power centralized and national consciousness grew.

Question 34

Ultimately, the Hundred Years’ War was about _____.

Answer 34

French sovereignty

Question 35

The primary reason for early French failure in the Hundred Years’ War was _____.

Answer 35

internal disuntiy

Question 36

What was the impact of the Treaty of Troyes on the French?

Answer 36

It was largely ignored, and was therefore insignificant

Question 37

The burden of the Hundred Years’ War fell mostly on the _______.

Answer 37

peasants

Question 38

The price of the papacy’s greater centralization of authority was ______.

Answer 38

declining popular support

Question 39

Which of the following statements most aptly applies to the bull Ausculta fili?

Answer 39

The church has authority over the state.

Question 40

The papal bull Unam Sanctam declared that ______.

Answer 40

temporal authority was subject to the spiritual power of the church

Question 41

Which of the following was recognized by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges?

Answer 41

The right of the French to regulate ecclesiastical appointments and taxation in their country.

Question 42

Which of the following religious movements was most successful at assailing that late medieval church in England?

Answer 42

Lollards

Question 43

The work of John Wycliffe most resembled that a of _____.

Answer 43

John Huss

Question 44

The phrase “Babylonian Captivity” refers to ______.

Answer 44

The period of papal residence in Avignon

Question 45

What finally resolved the Great Schism?

Answer 45

the Council of Constance

Question 46

The broadest social divison in 11th century Russia was between ______.

Answer 46

Freemen and slave

Question 47

Which of the following statements best characterizes the Mongol treatment of Russian political and religious institutions?

Answer 47

They left them largely intact

Question 48

The plague’s impact on towns can be characterized as ______.

Answer 48

Positive in the long run

Question 49

Defender of Peace, written by Marsilius of Padua, depicted the pope as _____.

Answer 49

Subordinate to secular rulers

Question 50

Which of these provoked the Hundred Years’ War?

Answer 50

An English claim to the French throne