Deck 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture

Question 1

Which term refers to a social system in which lords granted land to their vassals on the condition of loyalty and service?

A) Carolingian caste
B) feudalism
C) cloisterism
D) Ottonian society

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who was the author of the most famous "Rule" in Western monasticism?

A) Roswitha
B) Saint Benedict of Nursia
C) Saint Francis of Assisi
D) Saint Gregory

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What was Carolingian minuscule?

A) a scale-model design for a house of worship
B) a small, portable manuscript
C) a common type of illuminated book
D) a precise and rounded form of calligraphy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is the oldest and most famous of the chansons de geste ?

A) Everyman
B) The Song of Roland
C) Quem Queritis
D) The Romance of the Rose

Question 5

What is the importance of Roswitha's legend of Theophilus in the history of literary themes?

A) It introduces the Faust theme to German literature.
B) It marks a return to the literary themes of Classical Greece.
C) It borrows themes from Islam.
D) It explores themes of human sexuality in an explicit manner.

Question 6

What illuminated book is considered a masterpiece of the Carolingian Renaissance?

A) the Dagulf Psalter
B) the Quadrivium
C) the Book of Hours
D) the Utrecht Psalter

Question 7

What was the Divine Office?

A) the order of the Mass
B) the schedule of monastic worship
C) the position of Bishop
D) the position of Pope

Question 8

Why can early medieval drama be described as "liturgical drama"?

A) It was based on religious themes.
B) It was performed in the cathedral.
C) It was performed at the monastery.
D) It was performed during Mass.

Question 9

Who wrote The Conversion of the Harlot Thais ?

A) Charlemagne
B) Hildegard von Bingen
C) Roswitha
D) Roland

Question 10

Upon what earlier model did Charlemagne base his administration and decrees?

A) Greece
B) Rome
C) Egypt
D) India

Question 11

What does the term a cappella refer to?

A) communications sent to a bishop
B) singing without referring to text or music notation
C) a congregation's gaze toward the altar
D) singing without instrumental accompaniment

Question 12

In what town did Charlemagne build his palace and royal chapel?

A) Aachen
B) Poitiers
C) Roncesvalles
D) Rome

Question 13

Hildegard of Bingen was which of the following?

A) a pagan heretic
B) a mythical heroine
C) a Benedictine nun
D) the mother of Charlemagne

Question 14

What was the primary purpose of a reliquary?

A) It served as a place to bury the dead.
B) It served as a center for worship.
C) It served as a repository for sacred objects.
D) It housed literary and scholarly manuscripts.

Question 15

What was a principal material on which medieval scribes wrote?

A) vellum
B) papyrus
C) parchment
D) waxed tablets

Question 16

What is a melisma ?

A) an evening prayer
B) an elaborate morning worship service
C) a single, sustained musical pitch
D) an intricate series of musical notes

Question 17

Who was an important Anglo-Saxon scholar at Charlemagne's court in Aachen?

A) Hildegard
B) Benedict
C) Venerable Bede
D) Alcuin of York

Question 18

What are the trivium and quadrivium ?

A) courses of study in medieval universities
B) obscure scriptures found at Aachen
C) medieval guilds of mathematicians
D) two legal codes designed by Charlemagne

Question 19

What is the name for the dining hall of a medieval monastery?

A) cloister
B) horarium
C) refectory
D) cadence

Question 20

What type of chant grew out of the Roman musical tradition?

A) Benedictine Chant
B) Gregorian Chant
C) Mozarabic Chant
D) Ambrosian Chant

Question 21

What is the name for the semicircular space above the doors on a Romanesque church?

A) transept
B) tympanum
C) ambulatory
D) mandorla

Question 22

What were the important economic developments of Charlemagne's reign?

Question 23

Charlemagne's battle with the Umayyad Caliphate at the Franco-Spanish border inspired which of the following?

A) Causae et Curae
B) Beowulf
C) Everyman
D) The Song of Roland

Question 24

What room of a monastery did monks use for manuscript copying?

A) chapter house
B) school
C) abbot's house
D) scriptorium

Question 25

Which term refers to the monastic practice of self-denial?

A) fenestration
B) monos
C) asceticism
D) capitulation

Question 26

How did the Quem Quaeritis trope affect the development of western drama?

Question 27

What is the term for the poetic device of repeating consonants in adjacent words?

A) assonance
B) alliteration
C) cadence
D) vernacular

Question 28

What is the Vulgate Bible?

A) a translation of the Bible into medieval French
B) a translation of the Bible into Old English
C) an illuminated version of the Bible commissioned by Charlemagne
D) a version of the Bible largely translated into Latin by St Jerome

Question 29

Who was Venerable Bede and what was one of his major accomplishments?

Question 30

Neumes are a type of notation used in which context?

A) psalters
B) illuminated manuscripts
C) musical notation of Gregorian chant
D) the Vulgate Bible

Question 31

What is the term for a covered walkway in a monastery, convent, college, or church?

A) narthex
B) tribune gallery
C) novitiate
D) cloister

Question 32

Which of the following did NOT occur after Charlemagne's death?

A) The Umayyad Caliphate conquered the Frankish kingdom.
B) Emperor Frederick Barbarossa canonized Charlemagne.
C) The Frankish kingdom fractured, leading to a period of violence and hardship.
D) His bones were placed inside works of art, as a way of paying tribute.

Question 33

What is the subject of the Bayeux Tapestry?

A) the Norman Invasion of England in 1066
B) Beowulf's battle with Grendel
C) the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778
D) the Rule of Saint Benedict

Question 34

What is the name for the central aisle of a church, which the congregation can use?

A) narthex
B) nave
C) capitulary
D) trope

Question 35

Why was Charlemagne's "palace school" at Aachen important?

Question 36

What are the themes of the morality play Everyman ?

Question 37

What was the name of the most important style of architecture between 1000 and 1150?

A) Neo-Classical
B) Romanesque
C) Gothic
D) Classical

Question 38

What material was often used for the covers of medieval books?

A) mosaics
B) tapestry
C) ivory
D) gold

Question 39

Liturgical _______ were verbal elaborations on the texts of chants, used by monks to help them memorize the intricate melodies.

A) tropes
B) cantuses
C) monophonics
D) cadences

Question 40

"Eremitism" refers to which aspect of monastic life?

A) farming
B) solitude
C) prayer
D) frequent study