Exam Prep The Crises Of The Fourteenth Century Chapter.17 4e - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 17
Test Bank
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 01
1) What modernist elements emerged from the fourteenth century? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Crises of 14c
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a. Increased value of the individual
b. Greater trust in science
c. Increased value of communal experience
d. Greater trust in religious authority
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 02
2) What climactic change did people face in the later Middle Ages?
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a. There was no climactic change
b. The temperature fluctuated dramatically from hot to cold
c. The temperature heated up two degrees Celsius
d. The temperature cooled two degrees Celsius
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 03
3) What economic phenomenon immediately followed crop shortages?
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a. Inflation
b. Deflation
c. Mercantilism
d. Free market
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 04
4) What generally happened to banks amid the fourteenth century economic changes?
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a. Many of them increased in power
b. Only English banks collapsed
c. Many banks across Europe collapsed
d. Lower class people were able to open their own banks
Title: Chapter 17 Question 05
5) The ____________ refers to a series of devastating crop failures that may have afflicted up to a third of the continent’s landmass.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 06
6) What was a consequence of large-scale animal slaughter to alleviate starvation?
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a. People were devastated due to emotional attachments to the herds
b. Animal losses prohibited the restarting of farming after famines
c. The quality of life of the surviving animals was much higher
d. Diseases spread more quickly among surviving herds
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 07
7) Why was the onset of plague so deadly in Europe?
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a. Europeans had no previous immunity
b. Mongols slaughtered European cities alongside the plague’s spread
c. There was no attempt to prevent its spread
d. People willingly spread it against political orders
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 08
8)
Which regions were struck by the plague in December 1350? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: The Black Death
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a. Sicily
b. Northern Ireland
c. Scandinavia
d. Southern England
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 09
9) What was a positive outcome of the Black Death for certain members of society?
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a. The Church gained power in the eyes of Christians
b. Women attained surprising new freedoms
c. Feudal landholders amassed increased rural populations
d. Surviving workers could demand higher wages
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 10
What does this image communicate to its audience?
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a. The selectiveness of death
b. The ubiquity of death
c. Italian loss of life
d. Measures taken against the spread of plague
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 11
11) What triggered urban revolts across the Continent?
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a. High newly imposed taxes
b. The decline of Church power
c. Royal commands for quarantine
d. The power of the wool merchants’ guilds
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 12
12) The _______________ was a 1381 uprising in England led by Wat Tyler and others.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 13
13)
What truth about the Black Death is most highlighted by this fresco?
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a. The plague could strike all different social classes
b. Kings were exempt from fear of plague
c. The poor should fear plague most
d. More men were stricken than women
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 14
14) Which new weapons helped gain English victories in the Hundred Years War? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: War Everywhere
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a. Crossbow
b. Stockade
c. Trebuchet
d. Longbow
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 15
15) Where did the first major battle of the Hundred Years War take place?
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a. Agincourt
b. Crécy
c. Paris
d. London
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 16
What major impact did Joan of Arc have on the Hundred Years War?
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a. She raised French morale
b. She won every battle she rode into
c. She stood up to the inquisitors
d. She was universally respected as a female soldier
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 17
17) What impact did new fighting techniques have on the feudal world?
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a. Feudal life declined simply because the system got phased out
b. Feudal life was strengthened since peasants entered lord-vassal relationships
c. Feudal systems declined since peasants could kill trained knights
d. They had no impact on the feudal world
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 18
18) What did the papal bull Unam Sanctam state?
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a. Supreme papal power
b. Taxation on clerical property
c. The excommunication of King Philip IV
d. A Jubilee in the year 1300
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 19
19) The period known as the __________________ spurred Christian fears that the popes were under the control of the French king.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 20
20) Which saint wrote impassioned letters for the pope to return to Rome?
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a. St Thomas Aquinas
b. St Francis
c. St Catherine of Siena
d. St Joan of Arc