Deck 12: Centers of Learning and the Transmission of Culture 900-1300

Question 1

The new institution of the university emerged out of a conflict between European

A) monks and clerics
B) kings and clerics
C) professors and kings
D) the Catholic and Orthodox churches

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Advanced education in both monasteries and cathedral schools centered on the Roman trivium, which consisted of

A) history, oratory, and grammar
B) rhetoric, religion, and chivalry
C) logic, Latin, and rhetoric
D) grammar, rhetoric, and logic

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The new religious order called the Cistercians emphasized education based on

A) memorization, contemplation, and spiritual faith
B) reasoning and logic
C) the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy
D) rhetoric and oratory

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Ibn Rushd's was persecuted and exiled because of

A) his insistence that faith is incomplete without rational understanding
B) his revocation of the life of a knight in favor of a life of learning
C) his insistence on teaching science, known as the quadrivium
D) his atheism

Question 5

A unified elite culture across western Europe, well beyond national boundaries, was fostered by

A) universal study of the works of Aristotle
B) schooling based on literacy in Latin
C) a standard curriculum based on the Roman quadrivium
D) changes in the self-image of the rising administrative and commercial classes

Question 6

Norman king William I's Domesday Book was

A) a record of the Anglo-Saxon law code
B) the first epic poem written in English
C) a census of the wealth and property of the English population
D) a record of his conquest of the Anglo-Saxons

Question 7

With the rise of written vernacular languages, Latin

A) continued as the language of liturgy and scholarship
B) was used only for church masses
C) disappeared from use
D) was only taught so that the works of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle could be read

Question 8

In the Islamic world, the task of teaching the faithful about matters of religion fell to the

A) clergy
B) caliphs
C) hadith
D) ulama

Question 9

Islamic education revolved around

A) the master-disciple relationship
B) a fixed curriculum
C) Qur'an recitation
D) Arabic grammar

Question 10

The Hanbalis were popular among the inhabitants of Baghdad who chafed under Seljuk rule because

A) they rejected Seljuk patronage and refused to accept government positions
B) they advocated for more egalitarian policies
C) they permitted the consumption of alcohol
D) of their strict interpretation of Islamic law

Question 11

The proliferation of madrasas between the tenth and thirteenth centuries

A) defined the boundaries between church and state
B) established boundaries between church and state for the first time
C) blurred the boundaries between church and state
D) reestablished boundaries between church and state that had been blurred by the caliphate

Question 12

Those who follow the mystical form of Islam that emphasizes personal experience of the divine over obedience to scriptures and Islamic law are

A) Shi'a
B) Sufis
C) Sunni
D) Seljuk

Question 13

To fulfill one's religious duty in Islam, one had to

A) attend a madrassa
B) master the Qur'an in Arabic
C) own a copy of the Qur'an
D) learn to read and write Arabic

Question 14

Beginning around 400 CE, __________ became a cosmopolitan secular language in use from Afghanistan to Java.

A) Arabic
B) Latin
C) Sanskrit
D) Persian

Question 15

From the tenth century onward, as royal power became increasingly tied to distinct territories in India, Sanskrit

A) became the language of royalty
B) was displaced by vernacular languages
C) was relegated to use only in royal inscriptions
D) continued to be used widely for poetry and literature

Question 16

Beginning in 1206, five dynasties ruled over the Delhi sultanate and imposed ________ rule over much of India.

A) Muslim
B) Hindu
C) Buddhist
D) Christian

Question 17

Sufi masters insisted that

A) only Sufis were suitable to rule
B) followers of Sufism were ill suited to rule, given their primary concern with spiritual matters
C) all Muslims were representatives of god on earth
D) it was the blessing of a Sufi saint that conferred sovereign authority on monarchs

Question 18

Islam ultimately spread across South Asia because of the missionary zeal of the

A) Sunni
B) Sufis
C) Shi'a
D) Delhi sultans

Question 19

The teachings of Nizam al-Din Awliya-forgive your enemies, enjoy worldly pleasures in moderation, and fulfill your responsibilities to family and society-were closely aligned with the basic principles of _______ social life.

A) Muslim
B) Hindu
C) Buddhism
D) Confucian

Question 20

Muslim and Hindu elites in India

A) permitted intermarriage freely
B) permitted intermarriage when the woman was of a lower caste than the man
C) strictly forbade intermarriage across religious lines
D) forbade intermarriage unless both bride and groom were of the same jati

Question 21

Beginning with the Song dynasty, Chinese political life and literary culture were dominated by

A) Confucian teachings
B) state universities
C) the civil service examination system
D) Buddhist clergy

Question 22

Prior to the Song dynasty, China's imperial governments recruited their officials mostly through

A) a system of recommendations
B) a civil service examination system
C) a lottery
D) a system in which sons inherited the jobs held by their fathers

Question 23

Under the Song dynasty, the final choice of successful candidates to be government officials rested with

A) the test examiner
B) the emperor
C) the local Buddhist priest
D) Confucian advisers to the emperor

Question 24

The original motivation behind the invention of printing in China was probably to

A) spread the pronouncements of the emperor
B) enable mass printing of the examination papers for the civil service exam
C) standardize educational materials across the country
D) mass produce religious texts and icons

Question 25

Developed in the 15^th century, han'gul is

A) a phonetic system for writing Japanese
B) a type of Japanese poetry
C) a native writing system for the Korean language
D) the script used by female writers in Korea

Question 26

In China, literacy was

A) a jealously guarded prerogative of the ruling class
B) relatively common, fostered by the early development of printing and public schools
C) reserved exclusively for Buddhist monks
D) not considered a valuable skill

Question 27

In ancient societies such as Egypt, writing and reading were skills

A) reserved for rulers, priests, and administrators
B) taught widely in public schools
C) used only by merchants
D) taught only in religious contexts

Question 28

The earliest writing in Mesoamerica was the script of the

A) Olmec
B) Maya
C) Monte Albans
D) Zapotec

Question 29

Evidence for the power of the visible word in Mesoamerican societies is the

A) widespread use of papyrus
B) regular destruction of monuments
C) way virtually every stone block used in building construction was inscribed
D) the absence of inscriptions

Question 30

Knowledge of the Maya hieroglyphic script died out after

A) the Spanish banned the Maya language
B) the Spanish language, which was easier to write, was introduced in Mesoamerica
C) the Maya were conquered by the Aztecs
D) the Spanish taught the Maya to write their language using the Roman alphabet