Exam Questions The Emergence Of The Medieval Worlds Ch.5 - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 5
Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 01
1) Which of the following is NOT one of the major entities that made up the western world in the seventh and eighth centuries?
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a. Latin Europe
b. Byzantium
c. The Islamic Empire
d. Crusader states
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 02
2) What practice contributed to the constant petty warfare in Europe?
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a. The division of inheritance among multiple sons
b. The Viking desire to settle the Atlantic coast
c. The switch from patrilineal to matrilineal clan structures
d. The vast conversions to Christianity
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 03
3) Which term best describes life in the sixth century, as seen in Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks?
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a. Urbanized
b. Democratic
c. Stabilized
d. Apocalyptic
Title: Chapter 05 Question 04
4) The Latin term ___________, borrowed from Rome, became the normative social unit for Germanic kin structures.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 05
5) What is the best definition for the concept ‘personality of the law’?
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a. One’s legal rights are based on his or her membership among a distinct people
b. Each person is free to follow any law that suits him or her
c. Centralized kings personally laid out laws to be obeyed by all their subjects
d. One’s legal rights are not linked to one’s social status
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 06
6) What improvements are seen among Germanic women? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Continuity and Change
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a. A shortage of women increased the value of available ones
b. The centrality of the Virgin Mary softened attitudes in Christianized areas
c. The rise in infanticide
d. The opportunity to pursue life in a convent
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 05 Question 07
7) ______________ wrote the first Rule specifically designed for nuns.
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 08
8) How did the Angles’ and Saxons’ invasions of England differ from the experience on the Continent? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Continuity and Change
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a. They organized in small clans, not larger kingdoms
b. They did not want to assimilate with indigenous Celtic populations
c. They preferred settling in urbanized centers
d. They immediately established trade networks with the Continent
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 09
9)
How might this manuscript image communicate unease about England being invaded? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Continuity and Change
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a. It depicts dragon-headed boats crammed with men, emphasizing the number of invaders
b. It shows a mix of men and women, suggesting settlement rather than invasion
c. It sets the isolated island in the middle, highlighting the extent to which England was perceived to be surrounded
d. It borrows from an Islamic style of drawing, pointing out the foreignness of the invaders
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 10
10) What were the major differences in the Byzantine world compared to the Latin West?
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a. Its weak, insular economy
b. Its urbanism and literacy rates
c. The rejection of the gold solidus
d. The emphasis on scientific knowledge
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 05 Question 11
11) The doctrine of ________ refers to the emperor’s control of the state religion as well as the political state.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 12
What impact might Justinian’s reconquests have had on the empire at large?
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a. He established the Prefecture of Illyricum on the Iberian peninsula to reward his deputies
b. He lost key territories in the West but recaptured the Eastern Mediterranean
c. His claims on the majority of the Mediterranean coastline could foster travel, trade, and communication
d. His defeats of the Franks added more cultural diversity to his empire
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 13
13) What was arguably the most important and lasting legacy of Justinian’s reign?
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a. His banishment of Empress Theodora
b. The compilation of the Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law) c. His expulsion of the Islamic Empire from North Africa
d. The destruction of the Hagia Sophia
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 14
14) How did Heraclius reform Byzantine rule?
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a. He reorganized the army into themes, which governed civil administration
b. He strengthened the power of the Eastern Orthodox Church
c. He dropped taxes to record lows
d. He persecuted Jewish communities
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 05 Question 15
15) The holy text _____________, from the Arabic ‘recite,’ is believed to represent God’s final revelation to humankind.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 16
16) What was the result of Muhammad’s declarations against idolatry and pagan shrines in the Ka’ba?
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a. He successfully conquered the city of Mecca
b. He won the Qur’aysh tribe over to Islam
c. He threatened Mecca’s income from visiting pagan pilgrims
d. He established the hadith
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 17
17) What changes to Islam resulted from Muhammad’s death?
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a. A succession crisis divided followers into Sunni and Shi’ite sects
b. The religion quickly declined in popularity
c. Muslims lost control of the city of Jerusalem
d. The immediate invasion of the Iberian peninsula
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 18
18) What was the expanding Islamic Empire’s major cultural contribution to western knowledge?
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a. It turned eastward and let the West focus on its own traditions and cultural accomplishments
b. It privileged western philosophy over Islamic doctrine, thereby combining diverse worldviews
c. It promoted Zoroastrian traditions, copying and cataloguing many holy texts
d. It absorbed Classical traditions, translated them into Arabic, and preserved them from vanishing
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 05 Question 19
19) The Umayyad dynasty established a new capital in the city of ___________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 05 Question 20
20)
Which areas did Muslims conquer immediately after the death of Muhammad?
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a. The Iberian peninsula
b. The Maghreb
c. The Arabian peninsula
d. The Khazar kingdom