Test Bank Ch14 The Christian Empire And The Late Roman World

CHAPTER 14 THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE AND THE LATE ROMAN WORLD (337–476)

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 01

1. The polytheism of the emperor Julian earned him the nickname _______.

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a. “the Pagan”

b. “the Pious”

c. “the Uniter”

d. “the Apostate”

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 02

2. The reign of which emperor was later looked on as the third and last Golden Age of the Roman Empire?

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a. Gratian

b. Valens

c. Valentinian I

d. Julian

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 03

3. Together the Gemara and the Mishnah made up the _______, a comprehensive guidebook for Jewish life.

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a. Talmud

b. Pentateuch

c. Torah

d. Mosaic Law

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 04

4. Which of the following viewed the world as based on a constant struggle between God and Satan?

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a. Neoplatonism

b. Skepticism

c. Manichaeism

d. Adonism

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 05

5. Who excommunicated the emperor Theodosius, who had to perform public penance in order to be readmitted to Christian fellowship?

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a. Ambrose

b. Augustine

c. Jerome

d. Gregory of Nyssa

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 06

6. As a consequence of his support for Nicene Christianity, Theodosius gained the epithet _______.

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a. “the Great”

b. “the Humble”

c. “the Devoted”

d. “the Defender of the Faith”

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 07

7. The bishops of Rome came to be known as what in the sixth century?

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a. patriarchs

b. popes

c. vicars of Christ

d. co-emperor

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 08

8. The most enthusiastic Christians practiced extreme _______, or physical self-denial.

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a. monophysitism

b. hedonism

c. sybarism

d. asceticism

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 09

9. What holy man sat atop a column in all weather in Syria for thirty years?

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a. Tacitus

b. Alexios

c. Simeon

d. Aeacus

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 10

10. The lack of a viable _______ in the late Roman world meant that local economies suffered badly.

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a. gold coinage

b. silver or copper coinage

c. central Roman bank

d. port in Ravenna

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 11

11. In what ways could one become a senator in the late Roman world?

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a. By holding a multitude of civilian or military offices

b. By purchasing the title from a bankrupt senator

c. By being the son of a senator, since senatorial status was inherited

d. By being a Christian bishop

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 12

12. Once knights were incorporated into the senatorial order, the lowest ranking members of the honestiores were the _______.

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a. decurions

b. praetors

c. tribunes

d. publicani

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 13

13. For many privileged persons, _______ became an attractive alternative to state office.

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a. tenant farming

b. church office

c. the office of decurion

d. service as a eunuch

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 14

14. _______, the mother of Constantine, became a patroness of the church and was even believed to have discovered the cross on which Christ was crucified.

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a. Julia

b. Aurelia

c. Minerva

d. Helena

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 15

15. Jerome translated the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, in a form known as the _______.

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a. “Codex Jeromensis”

b. “Vulgate”

c. “Imperial Edition”

d. “Roman Bible”

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 16

16. The emperor Valens was killed, and the Roman army virtually annihilated in what battle against the Goths?

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a. The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

b. The Battle of Mursa

c. The Battle of Adrianople

d. The Battle of Manzikert

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 17

17. Who sacked Rome on August 24, 410?

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a. The Vandals under Geiseric

b. The Goths under Gaïnas

c. The Visigoths under Alaric

d. The Huns under Attila

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 18

18. The boy-emperor Romulus “Augustulus” was deposed by whom in 476?

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a. Odovacar

b. Geiseric

c. Ricimer

d. Majorian

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 19

19. Attila the Hun’s invasion of which diocese on this map in 451 led to the Battle of the Mauriac Plain (or Catalaunian Fields), in which the previously undefeated Huns were put to flight?

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a. Dacia

b. Macedonia

c. Italy

d. Gaul

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Title: Chapter 14 Question 20

20. This sculpture group depicts Theodosius sitting at court with the western emperor at the time, _______.

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a. Majorian

b. Julius Nepos

c. Julian

d. Valentinian II