Deck 10: The High Middle Ages

Question 1

Who was the primary subject of the 300 sonnets and 49 canzoni songs)in Petrarch's Canzoniere Songbook)?

A)Augustina
B)Laura
C)Maria
D)Christina

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which two European countries were the main combatants in the Hundred Years' War?

A)France and Italy
B)England and Italy
C)France and Spain
D)France and England

Answer 2

D

Question 3

How was the plague spread to Europe?

A)Via infected European travelers.
B)Via rats aboard trade ships
C)Via public waterways
D)Via food supplies

Answer 3

B

Question 4

After the return of the papacy to Rome, what name was given to the split 1378-1417)in the Roman Catholic Church?

A)The Reformation
B)The Great Schism
C)The Inquisition
D)The Papal Divide

Question 5

Who was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1348?

A)Petrarch
B)Boccaccio
C)Dante
D)Boethius

Question 6

Who was one of the first women in medieval Europe to make a living as a professional writer?

A)Francesca Caccini
B)Nicola Pisano
C)Christine de Pisan
D)Laura Brunelleschi

Question 7

Who did author Giorgio Vasari consider to be the first Renaissance artist?

A)Filippo Brunelleschi
B)Duccio di Buoninsegna
C)Giotto di Bondone
D)Cimabue

Question 8

What style is exemplified by Simone Martin's Annunciation?

A)The Byzantine Style
B)The International Style
C)The Florentine Style
D)The Venetian Style

Question 9

What is the meaning of the term "trecento"?

A)enlightenment
B)three hundred
C)fourteen
D)age of reason

Question 10

What Italian author used the events of 1348 as a backdrop for his work the Decameron?

A)Bernini
B)Boccaccio
C)Petrarch
D)Vasari

Question 11

What dramatic event in 1348 greatly reduced the population of Europe?

A)the influenza epidemic
B)the Thirty Years' War
C)the Florentine Wars
D)the bubonic plague

Question 12

What was the subject of the painting the Lamentation?

A)The body of Christ surrounded by the disciples
B)An unnamed father's loss of his child to the plague
C)St.Peter's remorse at having betrayed Christ
D)Dido's grief at being abandoned by Aeneas

Question 13

What is the narrative framework of Canterbury Tales?

A)a group of Renaissance artists
B)a group fleeing to the countryside
C)a group on a pilgrimage
D)a group of traveling musicians

Question 14

Who was the greatest English writer of the 1300s?

A)Geoffrey Chaucer
B)William Shakespeare
C)Peter Abelard
D)John Wycliff

Question 15

Which writer was exiled from Florence for political reasons in 1300?

A)Thomas Aquinas
B)Dante
C)Petrarch
D)Vergil

Question 16

What book, published in 1550, documents the relationship between Giotto and Dante?

A)The Good City
B)The Lives of the Artists
C)The Decameron
D)The Great Awakening

Question 17

Which character in the Canterbury Tales argues against misogyny and also sees sexual relations as a good given by God?

A)The Merchant
B)The Wife of Bath
C)The Student
D)The Nun

Question 18

What was the subject matter of The Book of the City of Ladies 1404)?

A)It was an account of a group of plague survivors.
B)It was intended to serve as a guide for the proper comportment of women.
C)It presented an argument against antifeminine writers.
D)It was a fictional account of the lives of three urban women.

Question 19

Which Italian sculptors father and son)demonstrate the Roman and northern Gothic influences in their work?

A)Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti
B)Bernardo and Alessandro Bononcini
C)Francesco and Luigi Brunelleschi
D)Nicola and Giovanni Pisano

Question 20

Where was the residence of the Papacy from 1309 to 1367?

A)Aachen
B)Ravenna
C)Avignon
D)Reims

Question 21

How did the plague impact economic stability in fourteenth-century Europe?

Question 22

Who composed the Messe de Notre Dame?

A)Francesco Landini
B)Guillaume Dufay
C)Guillaume de Machaut
D)Ambrogio Lorenzetti
3 points each)

Question 23

_______________________Author of Lives of the Artists

Question 24

______________________ Embellishment or improvising upon noted music with sounds not written on the page

Question 25

_______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes

Question 26

What were the various responses that people had to the catastrophe of the plague?

Question 27

What architect was responsible for the magnificent dome of Florence Cathedral?

A)Giovanni Pisano
B)Michelangelo
C)Bernini
D)Brunelleschi

Question 28

What musical qualities distinguished ars nova from the music of the previous era?

A)rhythmic and melodic simplicity
B)rhythmic and melodic complexity
C)consistently homophonic texture
D)consistently monophonic texture

Question 29

_______________________ Artistic technique of creating illusion of three-dimensionality through light and shadow

Question 30

_______________________ In a polyphonic work, a voice given a single, repeating line

Question 31

_______________________ Poetic form using sets of three lines with rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, etc.

Question 32

What are the five parts of the Mass Ordinary?

Question 33

_______________________ Refers to the 1300s in Italy

Question 34

_______________________ Songs for two or three voices with no accompanying instruments

Question 35

What shift occurred in the role of the musician and composer in the fourteenth century?

Question 36

What building is the city hall of Venice?

A)Palazzo Pubblico
B)Doge's Palace
C)Palazzo della Signoria
D)The Duomo

Question 37

What name is given to the style of late Gothic architecture in England?

A)Perpendicular
B)International
C)Neo-Classical
D)Romanesque

Question 38

_______________________ Short poem of fourteen lines

Question 39

_______________________ Italian for "Public Palace" begun in 1288

Question 40

In what respects did the art of Cimabue and Duccio di Buoninsegna move beyond the Italo-Byzantine tradition?