Ch.15 Daily Life At The Medieval Zenith Test Bank Docx 4e - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 01
1) The genre of ____________ saw a revival in the thirteenth century as a consequence of urban anonymity and increased literacy.
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 02
2) What did sumptuary laws accomplish?
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a. Religious segregation based on neighborhood
b. Standardized clothing and appearance for different levels of society
c. The inclusion of women in guild activities
d. Regulations about consumption of certain food items
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 03
3) What benefits did guilds offer urban tradespeople? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Economic Changes
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a. Safety and power in numbers
b. Wage regulation
c. Economic monopolies on goods
d. Automatic acceptance into any merchant guild
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 04
4) The status of ____________ came between apprentice and guild master.
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 05
5) Which best explains female participation in guild life?
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a. They had no training or skill in artisanal crafts
b. They could participate behind the scenes but never be full members
c. They were excluded on principle from all guild activities
d. They dominated trades like brewing, tavern running, and textiles
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 06
6) What primarily prompted the development of fair systems?
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a. The goal of reducing costs of transporting goods internationally
b. Merchants’ personal interest in traveling to other countries
c. Patrons’ attempts to increase their own political power
d. Wars that made international trade an impossibility
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 07
7) Where were the most lucrative annual fairs located?
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a. Avignon
b. Champagne
c. Munich
d. Arundel
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 08
8) What precondition was necessary for the rise of banking?
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a. The foundation of the Templars
b. A barter system
c. A money economy
d. Acceptance of usury
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 09
What enabled Jews, such as those seen in this image, to become disproportionately wealthy in medieval cities?
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a. They had no restrictions on entering joint commercial enterprises with Christians
b. As moneylenders they were permitted to charge interest on loans
c. Jews dominated most of the mercantile guilds
d. They only sold to urban Jewish populations
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 10
10) Which of the following tasks would men and women most likely do together?
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a. Harvesting
b. Caring for children
c. Cooking
d. Tending draught animals
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 11
11) The lack of _________ material for agricultural tools made peasant life difficult in Southern France.
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 12
12) Which of the following best describes urban organization? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Townsfolks’ Lives
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a. There were no sources of running water inside the city walls
b. Jews lived in a segregated district
c. Every city was built purposefully by plan
d. Different professions occupied different neighborhoods
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 13
13) The ___________ was the German merchant league that controlled trade in the Baltic Sea.
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 14
14) Which technique helped to make city dwellers’ lives safer? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Townsfolks’ Lives
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a. Imposition of a curfew
b. Organization of night patrols
c. Outlawing of taverns and alcohol sales
d. Planting of city gardens
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 15
15) What was the Church’s attitude towards Jews?
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a. The Church did not proclaim on treatment of Jews
b. Popular violence was forbidden but forced conversion was acceptable
c. The Church aimed to protect Jews against popular violence
d. The Church approved popular violence against Jews
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 16
16) The Mishneh Torah was the master work of the Jewish scholar ___________________.
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 17
17) From who/what would peasants likely learn a beginning grasp of Latin?
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a. The Church
b. The university
c. Daily conversations among themselves
d. Medical professionals
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 18
18) Approximately what percent of the adult urban population could read and write at all?
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a. Ten
b. Twenty
c. Forty
d. Sixty
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 19
19) Where did the emphasis on virginity first derive from?
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a. Pagan Rome
b. Germanic tribes
c. Latin Church
d. Heretics
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Title: Chapter 15 Question 20
Why is the woman wielding a distaff in this ‘humorous’ image?
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a. Women regularly beat their husbands with tools
b. It symbolizes women’s work and therefore gender role reversal
c. It was the first thing at hand for an angry wife in a well-known story
d. It has no meaning whatsoever