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Question 1

Which of the following was not a general historical feature of the 1300s?

the Ottonian cataclysm

religious strife, leading to the “Great Schism”

the 100 Years’ War

severe cold weather

religious strife, leading to the “Babylonian Captivity”

the Black Death

Answer 1

the Ottonian cataclysm

Question 2

Which of the following is not true of the Lindisfarne Gospels?

contain a page that juxtapositions the form of a cross against a chaotic background of fighting beasts

shaped around the letters XPI

contain a sequence of portraits, carpet pages, and decorated letters

Irish produced, but show a Mediterranean influence

Answer 2

shaped around the letters XPI

Question 3

Which of the following is not true about Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned?

a growing naturalism, with attention to a light source and a more realistic presentation of the interior space within the throne

the use of a medieval hierarchical scale

the injection of genuine human emotion

a symmetrical arrangement of the Virgin and angels

the inclusion of a realistic background scene (with mountains and fields) rather than the traditional flat gold sheet

the suggestion of three-dimension modeling for the Virgin that creates the illusion of a real body underneath her robe

Answer 3

the inclusion of a realistic background scene (with mountains and fields) rather than the traditional flat gold sheet

Question 4

Which of the following contains an eyewitness account of the effects of the Plague in the 1300s?

The Decameron

Canterbury Tales

The Divine Comedy

Answer 4

The Decameron

Question 5

Which of the following are not features of Dante’s Divine Comedy?

a preoccupation with hierarchical structures

a preoccupation with the principle of Christian mercy (instead of justice)

the quest to synthesize Christian ideals with Greco-Roman achievements

a terza rima rhyme scheme (aba bcb, cdc, etc.)

Answer 5

a preoccupation with the principle of Christian mercy (instead of justice)

Question 6

Which of the following is not true about sacred literature of the High Middle Ages?

Miracle plays were popular.

It often came in the form of allegorical dramas.

Writers didn’t write much of it.

It was often didactic (teaching morality and doctrine).

Answer 6

Writers didn’t write much of it.

Question 7

Westworks

a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches

b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 7

a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches

Question 8

The Emperor commanded the horns to sound,
the French dismount, and they put on their armor:
their hauberks, their helmets, their gold-dressed swords,
their handsome shields; and take up their great lances,
the gonfalons of white and red and blue.
The barons of that host mount their war horses
and spur them hard the whole length of the pass;

Which of the following does not apply to the passage quoted above?

represents the genre called Chanson de geste

was likely performed by a jongleur

here as elsewhere in this work, the author celebrates the values of a warrior culture

in this passage referred to the actions of Charlemagne

represents the genre called courtly chanson

Answer 8

represents the genre called courtly chanson

Question 9

Which is not true of Beowulf?

It was written by an unknown Anglo-Saxon Christian poet.

It is about events happening in Denmark and Sweden in the 500s–700s.

The narrator mixes past and future viewpoints.

Hrothgar was made chief by defeating the Huns.

The dead in this story are commemorated in a pagan manner

Answer 9

Hrothgar was made chief by defeating the Huns.

Question 10

What is not true about Gothic architecture?

It features point arches and ribbed vaulting.

It features extraordinarily thick stone walls and windowless interiors.

It was created by the Abbott Suger.

It features flying buttresses.

It evokes a seemingly weightless, floating atmosphere bathed in light.

It features abundant stained glass.

Answer 10

It features extraordinarily thick stone walls and windowless interiors.

Question 11

Which of the following were not German tribes in the early medieval era?

Angles and Saxons

Franks

Vandals

Lombards

Sheafsons

Visigoths

Answer 11

Sheafsons

Question 12

Rhythmic modes

the name given to the earliest polyphony used in church

b. use of formulas in music associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral
c. composers who worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Answer 12

b.use of formulas in music associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral

Question 13

Which of the following is not a feature of Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned?

The Virgin wears imperial blue.

The structure of the throne is lavish but spatially ambiguous.

The angels in the sky writhe with genuine grief.

The Madonna and flanking angels have the same formulaic smile and oval head shape with the same tilt.

Answer 13

The angels in the sky writhe with genuine grief.

Question 14

archivolts

itinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

b. a new highly systematic form of education
c. poet-composers from the south of France
d. a courtly poem by Marie de France
e. a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Answer 14

e.a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Question 15

jongleurs

aitinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

b. a new highly systematic form of education
c. poet-composers from the south of France
d. a courtly poem by Marie de France
e. a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Answer 15

aitinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

Question 16

Which is not one of the features of Gregorian chant?

They were monophonic.

They were sung in unison by men.

They contained several melodies and chords sounding simultaneously.

They were typically performed with solo passages alternation with choral ones.

The rhythms followed the Latin text rhythms.

Answer 16

They contained several melodies and chords sounding simultaneously.

Question 17

Who is the Greco-Roman author that serves as Dante’s guide through the Inferno?

Hildegarde

Beatriz de Dia

Homer

Virgil

Answer 17

Virgil

Question 18

Organum

the name given to the earliest polyphony used in church

b. use of formulas in music associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral
c. composers who worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Answer 18

the name given to the earliest polyphony used in church

Question 19

Which of the following is not true about Cluny III?

It remains one of the great tourist sites in all of Europe.

The building was extraordinarily big, high, and long.

This was the greatest Romanesque church every built.

The building contained many “compound” piers and “engaged” columns.

Answer 19

It remains one of the great tourist sites in all of Europe.

Question 20

Which of the following is not true about Gregorian chant?

Gregory I composed almost all of the original melodies.

The Franks began replacing their own chants with Roman ones to form a bond with old Roman Empire.

It was used to decorate the worship ceremonies of the Christian church.

It began being written down by the Franks, probably in the 700s.

Answer 20

Gregory I composed almost all of the original melodies.

Question 21

Which of the following is not true about the Decameron, first story of the fourth day?

The main female character is presented as an intelligent, rounded individual, not as a stereotyped, formulaic princess.

It focuses on the daughter of Prince Tancred.

The main character takes a love, against the wishes of her father.

It involves a wife who talks about her seven husbands.

The main character embraces a form of love that is more physical and natural than the one offered by her religion.

Answer 21

It involves a wife who talks about her seven husbands.

Question 22

Alcuin of York

a. a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches
b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 22

b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system

Question 23

Gregory I

a. a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches
b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 23

e.one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles

Question 24

troubadour

tinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

b. a new highly systematic form of education
c. poet-composers from the south of France
d. a courtly poem by Marie de France
e. a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Answer 24

c.poet-composers from the south of France

Question 25

Which of the following is not true about the Western European culture in the years 1000–1300?

Population was expanding dramatically.

Christian self-confidence gave rise to crusades to the Holy Land.

Urbanization was becoming a central feature.

The threats from Muslims, Vikings, and Magyars had stopped.

The West re-learned Aristotle.

Paris became a major city intellectually and artistically.

Gregory II established an all-encompassing Holy Roman Empire that bound all nations under him.

Answer 25

Gregory II established an all-encompassing Holy Roman Empire that bound all nations under him.

Question 26

Leonin and Perotin

the name given to the earliest polyphony used in church

b. use of formulas in music associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral
c. composers who worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Answer 26

c.composers who worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Question 27

Which of the following is not true about Romanesque architecture?

It features barrel vaulting (in stone).

It came before Gothic architecture chronologically.

It features prominent stained glass.

It features extraordinarily thick stone walls.

It features few windows, making light dim.

Answer 27

It features prominent stained glass.

Question 28

In Dante’s Inferno, which sinners are the more lightly punished?

the lustful, the gluttons, and hoarders

the traitors and the fraudulent

Answer 28

the lustful, the gluttons, and hoarders

Question 29

It is possible to see the Wife of Bath and her crudity and avariciousness as a portrait not of a stereotypical woman but rather as a portrait of a stereotypical man’s attitude toward women.

True

False

Answer 29

True

Question 30

The deceptions of the Devil lie in the path humans take in this world. And before that multitude, as if in a road, there lies on its back a monster shaped like a worm, wondrously large and long. This means that the ancient serpent is well-known to humanity in the course of the pilgrimage of the good and the bad through the world, not in that visible form but in its inner meaning.

Which of the following does not apply to the passage quoted above?

appears in a book devoted to the description and analysis of visions

written by Hildegard

spoken by a character called Beatriz

Answer 30

spoken by a character called Beatriz

Question 31

Scholasticism

itinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

b. a new highly systematic form of education
c. poet-composers from the south of France
d. a courtly poem by Marie de France
e. a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Answer 31

b.a new highly systematic form of education

Question 32

Which of the following is not true of Machaut’s Puis Qu’en oubli?

It contains two sections that present the following scheme: AB AAAB AB.

The focus of the texture is given to the top voice, which stands as a primary melody.

It features a complex repeating rhythmic pattern in the lowest voice.

It is designed for one solo singer with instruments accompanying underneath.

This is true of Machaut’s Puis qu’en oubli. Read more about the French Ars nova in the section of the text entitled Music in the 1300s.

Answer 32

It features a complex repeating rhythmic pattern in the lowest voice.

Question 33

Which of the following is not true of de Vitry’s Garrit Gallus?

It’s written in the style of a melismatic Gregorian chant.

It contains two upper voice parts and one lower instrumental part.

It presents two different poems simultaneously.

It’s an isorhythmic motet.

Answer 33

It’s written in the style of a melismatic Gregorian chant.

Question 34

The greatest Italian composer of the 1300s was

Perotin.

Landini.

Del Dia.

Sammartini.

Answer 34

Landini.

Question 35

Which of the following is not true of Dante’s muse?

Her name was Catherine of Aragon.

Her name was Beatrice.

She was Dante’s second wife.

She appears in the Divine Comedy.

Both A and C.

Answer 35

Both A and C.

Question 36

Which of the following is not true of the famed Arena Chapel Frescos?

They present a narrative scheme based on Old and New Testament themes.

They embrace genuine human drama of a type that transcends static symbols.

The figures are given personalized gestures and body postures.

The altarpiece contains a brilliant, gold-leafed illustration of the Annunciation.

The main figures appear in Italo-Byzantine style.

Both D and E.

Both A and C.

Answer 36

Both D and E.

Question 37

Which of the following is not true about the art from Sutton Hoo?

It was found on the bottom of the ocean in a ship that was wrecked in 1100.

It was found among a complex of objects associated with St. Patrick.

It was found in a ship that was buried in c. 625.

It contains artwork associated with the so-called “animal style.”

Answer 37

It was found on the bottom of the ocean in a ship that was wrecked in 1100.

Question 38

office

a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches

b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 38

c.the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries

Question 39

Which of the following is not associated with Petrarch?

a muse named Laura

a fervent interest in the great writers of antiquity

a body of sonnets that express the poet’s obsession with love and what it did to him psychologically

an expert analysis of courtly love songs from the perspective of an amateur musician

Answer 39

an expert analysis of courtly love songs from the perspective of an amateur musician

Question 40

The story saith, Man, in the beginning,
Look well, and take good heed to the ending,
Be you never so gay!
Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,
Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep,
When the body lieth in clay.
Here shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity,
Both Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty,
Will fade from thee as flower in May.

Which of the following is no true about the passage quoted above?

belongs to a genre called a “morality play”

appears in a work called Laüstic

appears just before the character of God, who describes His disappointment with humans

Answer 40

appears in a work called Laüstic

Question 41

What is not true about the High Gothic style at Chartres?

The exterior sculpture on the portals show a trend toward naturalism (with characters looking more lively and three-dimensional).

The stained-glass walls feature more glass than masonry.

This building is rare in that it contains most of its original glass windows.

The narthex was expanded to become a large monastery.

Answer 41

The narthex was expanded to become a large monastery.

Question 42

Laüstic

aitinerant performers that juggle, do animal acts, and sing such works as The Song of Roland

b. a new highly systematic form of education
c. poet-composers from the south of France
d. a courtly poem by Marie de France
e. a series of decorated compartments that surround a tympanum

Answer 42

d.a courtly poem by Marie de France

Question 43

the Rule of Benedict

a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches

b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 43

d.a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s

Question 44

Which of the following is not true about musical polyphony?

It focused exclusively on single melodies performed in unison.

The earliest kinds presented strict parallel motion between two melodies.

It began being notated at least by the 800s.

The style blossomed in connection with a growth spurt in the church, when artists began to decorate and make more complex all sorts of church things: manuscripts, buildings, music, etc.

Answer 44

It focused exclusively on single melodies performed in unison.

Question 45

Which of the following is not true about Chaucer’s General Prologue?

It presents in character sketches a wide cross-section of medieval English society.

The author overcomes a built-in problem of stasis by creating tensions between ideal types and real-life behavior.

The author chooses the strategy of an unreliable narrator.

At first it defends the principle of courtly love, and then satirizes it in the last third of the prologue.

It chooses as its frame the idea of thirty pilgrims gathered at a tavern.

Answer 45

At first it defends the principle of courtly love, and then satirizes it in the last third of the prologue.

Question 46

Grendel

a term applied to the entrance facades of early Carolingian churches

b. a major scholar who helped Charlemagne develop an educational system
c. the liturgical ceremonies performed at monasteries
d. a set of guidelines established for monasteries in the 500s
e. one of the great early popes, the last church father, who converted many in the British Isles
f. the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Answer 46

f.the evil monster fought by Beowulf

Question 47

And almost where the hillside starts to rise—
look there!—a leopard, very quick and lithe,
a leopard covered with a spotted hide.

What is true about the passage quoted above?

It appears in Canto V of Dante’s Inferno and has to do with Ugolino’s lust.

It appears in Marie de France’s Laüstic and is an allegory about courtly love.

It appears in Canto I of Dante’s Inferno and has to do with the pilgrim being prevented from escaping his spiritual morass.

It appears in Everyman, as a warning about hedonist behavior.

Answer 47

It appears in Canto I of Dante’s Inferno and has to do with the pilgrim being prevented from escaping his spiritual morass.

Question 48

Which of the following does not apply to Marcovaldo’s Last Judgment?

the defining of figures with sharp lines instead of soft modeling

its representation of a visual style known as Italo-Byzantine

the preference for dangling, weightless bodies

a preference for the two-dimensional and symbolic

the preference for flat, decorative surfaces

the creation of naturally flowing drapery

its appearance on the ceiling of the Florence Baptistery

Answer 48

the creation of naturally flowing drapery

Question 49

7. Read the following excerpt and answer the question:

Just as he asked, I clasped him round the neck;
and he watched for the chance of time and place,
and when the wings were open wide enough,

he took fast hold upon the shaggy flanks
and then descended, down from tuft to tuft,
between the tangled hair and icy crusts.

Which of the following is true about the passage quoted above?

It appears in the Decameron.

It appears in canto 34 of the Inferno and involves a main character climbing down the body of Satan.

It was written by Thomas Aquinas.

It involves King Arthur struggling with a dragon.

Answer 49

It appears in canto 34 of the Inferno and involves a main character climbing down the body of Satan.

Question 50

Which of the following is not a medievalism in Chaucer’s General Prologue?

its use of a systematic catalogue

the reliance (mostly) on two-dimension characters

the continued references to Greco-Roman philosophical ideals

the use of social stereotypes

its arrangement of society types into hierarchical classes

Answer 50

the continued references to Greco-Roman philosophical ideals