Test Bank Chapter 13 Politics In The Thirteenth Century - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 13
Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 01
1) Which of the following was an important addition to thirteenth-century statecraft?
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a. The abolishment of monarchies
b. The ability of women to vote in municipal elections
c. Belief in the absolute divine right of kings
d. Representative assemblies that checked ruling powers
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 02
2) What issue typically first prompted pushback against ruling powers?
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a. Taxation
b. Inheritance patterns
c. Military drafts
d. Usury
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 03
3) What aspects of medieval culture prompted the rise of representative bodies? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Rise of Representative Institutions
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a. Roman self-serving principles
b. Greek individual autonomy from law
c. A Christian sense of community
d. Germanic tribal assemblies
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 04
4) What purpose did Magna Carta serve for English barons?
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a. It established radical new baronial rights
b. It confirmed and protected their old privileges
c. It did away with all royal power
d. It fully subordinated the barons to royal authority
Title: Chapter 13 Question 05
5) The Provisions of Oxford established a baronial council under the oversight of an official called a ________________.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 06
6) Which king first shaped France into a centralized, powerful monarchy with Paris as its capital?
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a. Hugh Capet
b. Louis VII
c. Philip Augustus
d. Louis IX
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 13 Question 07
7) A __________ is a proto-urban community that could earn a charter to become a legally recognized city.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 08
8) What did Louis IX contribute to the French political system?
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a. Parlement
b. Magna Carta
c. Justiciars
d. Apanages
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 09
9) How did Philip IV attempt to resolve his financial woes?
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a. By raising tithes for crusade
b. By borrowing from other monarchs
c. By persecuting the Templars
d. By expelling Christian moneylenders
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 10
What was Philip IV’s goal at the 1302 Estates General?
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a. To condemn the remaining Templars to death
b. To disband religious orders that resisted his authority
c. To sow pro-papal sentiment among the French
d. To rebuff Church limits on raising military funding
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 11
11) What best describes Frederick II’s attitude towards Germany?
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a. He ceded power to magnates due to disinterest in ruling there
b. He preferred it to his home island of Sicily
c. He aggressively fought to centralize imperial rule there
d. He envied the magnates who held de facto power
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 12
12) In Germany, what dynasty took over after that of Frederick II?
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a. Ottonian
b. Habsburg
c. Hohenstaufen
d. Angevin
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 13
13) Which states dominated Mediterranean politics? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Mediterranean
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a. Genoa
b. Byzantium
c. Crown of Aragon
d. Venice
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 14
14) From which group did Genoa and Pisa reclaim Corsica and Sardinia?
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a. Catalans
b. Byzantines
c. Germans
d. Muslims
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 13 Question 15
15) The export of _____________ helped make Venice extremely wealthy.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 16
Under Peter the Great, which territory of the Crown of Aragon was the most eastern?
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a. The island of Sicily
b. Part of the Greek peninsula
c. The island of Majorca
d. The kingdom of Valencia
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 17
17) What term best describes medieval Hungary?
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a. Rural
b. Urban
c. Latin-oriented
d. Industrial
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 18
18) What form of Christianity flourished most widely in converted Poland?
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a. Military orders
b. Parish Catholicism
c. Monasticism
d. Eremitism
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 19
19) What was the major contribution of Sts Cyril and Methodius?
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a. Introduction of a Slavic alphabet
b. Importation of Latin Christianity to Poland
c. Defeat of the Teutonic Knights
d. Negotiation of an alliance with the Byzantines
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 13 Question 20
20) Which group ultimately defeated the Mongols?
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a. Mamluks
b. Byzantines
c. Saljuqs
d. Venetians