Question 1

Describe the psychological impact of the Black Death.How did Europeans respond to the devastation caused by the epidemic?

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Question 2

In 1309,Clement V moved the papal court to ___________,an imperial city on the southeastern border of France.

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Question 3

What were the social and economic consequences of the Black Death? Which groups in medieval society benefited the most from the altered social and economic landscape?

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Question 4

The year 1300 was deemed a __________ year by Pope Boniface VIII,which meant that all Catholics who visited Rome and fulfilled certain conditions had the penalties for their unrepented sins remitted.

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Question 5

What challenges did the late medieval church face? How did the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism affect the place of the church in European culture and society?

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Question 6

In March 1429,_____________ presented herself to Charles VII,declaring that the King of Heaven had called her to deliver besieged Orleans from the English.

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Question 7

Discuss the roles of John Huss and John Wycliffe in the lay religious movements that were disavowed by the late medieval church.Why might the church feel threatened by these movements? What explains their response?

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Question 8

What impact did Joan of Arc have on the French campaign? What was her primary role? What part,if any,did issues of gender play in this role?

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Question 9

What caused the Black Death (bubonic plague),and why did it spread so quickly throughout Western Europe? Where was it most virulent? What does the case of the Black Death suggest about the role disease may play in shaping history?

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Question 10

The first great battle of the Hundred Years' War took place in the _____________ on June 23,1340.

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Question 11

What were the causes of the Hundred Years' War? Could any of these factors have been avoided or was war inevitable? Explain.

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Question 12

Advocates of the ________________ sought to fashion a church in which a representative council could effectively regulate the actions of the pope.

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Question 13

___________ was the teaching that the efficacy of the church's sacraments did not only lie in their true performance,but also depended on the moral character of the clergy who administered them.

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Question 14

In 1296,the papal bull titled ___________ prohibited taxation of the clergy by secular rulers without papal approval.

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Question 15

The _____________ was a French tax,levied directly on the peasantry.

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Question 16

After ____________ fell to the Turks in 1453,Moscow became,in Russian eyes,the "third Rome."

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Question 17

Discuss the impact of Mongol rule on Russian social and political institutions.Do you believe the system of administration established by the Mongols contributed to their eventual collapse in the region? Explain.

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Question 18

____________,the religion of Russia,added strong cultural bonds to the close commercial ties that had long linked Russia to the Byzantine Empire.

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Question 19

How did the Hundred Years' War contribute to the growth of nationalism and the centralization of political power in both France and England?

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Question 20

How did the church become divided,and how was it reunited? Why was the conciliar movement a setback for the papacy?

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Quiz 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1453)