Ch18 Signs Of A New Era Test Bank - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 18
Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 01
1) What event did Jewish populations face as prejudices solidified?
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a. Expulsion from certain European kingdoms
b. Universal forced conversions to Christianity
c. Increased popular violence in the Islamic empire
d. Condemnation as heretics
Title: Chapter 18 Question 02
2) William of Ockham was a philosopher associated with the _________ Order.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 03
3) What does the theory of “Ockham’s Razor” assert?
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a. Generalization is the key to understanding God
b. The invalidity of Lombard’s Sentences
c. Spiritual mysteries can only be understood through reason
d. The simplest answer is most likely the truest
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 04
4) Of what heresy did William of Ockham accuse the Church?
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a. The pope’s rejection of all applications of logic
b. The pope’s rejection of the doctrine of evangelical poverty
c. The papal curia being full of corrupt bureaucrats
d. The College of Cardinals falsifying the papal election
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 05
5) Why did John of Paris’ ideas have such an impact on Marsilius of Padua?
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a. John had raised Marsilius, who looked up to him
b. Marsilius had experienced the papal-imperial conflict firsthand
c. John’s argument in favor of papal intervention in politics would resolve the longterm conflict between pope and emperor
d. Marsilius was looking for a reason to get out of the Dominican Order
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 18 Question 06
6) In Defensor pacis, Marsilius of Padua relied heavily on the theories of the philosopher ___________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 07
7) According to Marsilius of Padua, what group comprised the “true Church”?
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a. The theologians
b. The pope and his bureaucracy
c. The community of believers
d. The mendicant orders
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 08
8) What is the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy?
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a. A moralizing journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
b. A compilation of theological premises by contemporaries
c. An account of a group pilgrimage
d. An allegory of personified Faith and Reason
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 18 Question 09
9) Dante’s idealized feelings for Beatrice fall into the category of the literary conceit of _____________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 10
Which of the following best explains why Dante constructed purgatory as a mountain?
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a. To bring to mind the Alps that he loved so much
b. To emphasize the earthliness of purgatory
c. To suggest that one could slowly climb out of sin towards heaven
d. To parody a letter about mountain-climbing by Petrarch
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 11
11) How did Dante functionally reorder the universe to reflect his own vision?
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a. He invented all the characters in the Divine Comedy
b. He recorded the Church’s opinions of contemporaries
c. He wrote the most beautiful Latin text known to medieval readers
d. He chose whether famous figures belonged in Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 12
12) In addition to being an author, what role did Chaucer hold in medieval society?
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a. A courtier-diplomat
b. An exile from England
c. A well-paid merchant
d. A master theologian
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 13
13) Which of the following seminal works did Chaucer translate on his path to becoming a writer? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Dante & Chaucer
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a. De Lorris’ and De Meun’s The Romance of the Rose
b. Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy
c. Lombard’s The Sentences
d. Dante’s Divine Comedy
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 18 Question 14
14) The pilgrims in Canterbury Tales were on their way to visit the shrine of St. ________________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 15
15) From which author did Chaucer inherit the conceit of storytelling as a literary framework?
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a. Boccaccio
b. Dante
c. Christine de Pizan
d. Ovid
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 16
16) What was Chaucer’s general worldview, as seen in Canterbury Tales?
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a. At base, the world is dark and painful
b. People are fundamentally sinful and evil
c. The world is governed by a single, knowable Truth
d. Joy exists in spite of everything being unstable and changeable
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 17
17) What is Christine de Pizan foremost remembered as?
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a. The first medically trained woman in Europe
b. The first professional woman writer in Europe
c. The first woman to be thoroughly educated in Europe
d. The first woman to be patronized by royal courts
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 18
18) What historical event most shaped Christine de Pizan’s writing?
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a. The Avignon papacy
b. The Fourth Crusade
c. The Hundred Years War
d. The Black Death
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 19
19) As seen in her rebuttal to The Romance of the Rose, what message did Christine de Pizan put forth in her writings?
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a. Women are worthy, valuable, and should be taken seriously
b. Contemporary gender stereotypes have truth in reality
c. The role of mother is the most important a woman can embody
d. Women should restrain sexual desires
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 18 Question 20
20) What was the subject of Christine de Pizan’s final work before her death?
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a. Boccaccio
b. The Romance of the Rose
c. The king of France
d. Joan of Arc