Deck 11: The Fourteenth Century a Time of Transition

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Petrarch's Canzoniere ( Songbook ) contains over 300 instances of which poetic form, many of which express his love for a woman named Laura?

A) cantos
B) sonnets
C) ballades
D) fabliaux

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

A) an influenza pandemic
B) the fourth Crusade
C) the Florentine Wars
D) an epidemic form of the bubonic plague

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What provides the narrative frame of Canterbury Tales ?

A) a group of artists in their salon
B) a group fleeing to the countryside of England
C) a group on a pilgrimage to a shrine
D) a group of traveling musicians

Question 5

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

A) the merchant of Canterbury
B) the wife of Bath
C) the student pilgrim
D) the pardoner

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 Pizan
D) Laura Brunelleschi

Question 7

Who was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1348?

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

Question 8

The exempla found in the Decameron are examples of what kind of story?

A) ribald, comic tales
B) romances
C) moral stories
D) elegies

Question 9

Which Italian sculptors (father and son) demonstrate 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 10

How was the plague spread to Europe?

A) via Chinese silk
B) via infected rats aboard trade ships
C) via public waterways
D) via food supplies

Question 11

Who was the greatest English writer of the 1300s?

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

Question 12

In the Ordinary of the Mass, the ______ is the Profession of Faith sung after the Gospel.

A) Credo
B) Sanctus
C) Gloria
D) Agnus Dei

Question 13

What is the meaning of the term "trecento"?

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

Question 14

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 argued against antifeminine writers.
D) It was a fictional account of the lives of three urban women.

Question 15

What is the name of the split (1378-1417) within the Roman Catholic Church that occurred after the papacy returned to Rome?

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

Question 16

Whom 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 17

Which writer was exiled from Florence for political reasons in 1301?

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

Where was the residence of the Papacy for nearly 70 years during the 1300s?

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

Question 20

What style is exemplified by Simone Martini's Annunciation?

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

Question 21

What shift occurred in the role of the musician and composer in the 14^th century?

Question 22

What is the term for the artistic technique of creating illusion of three-dimensionality through light and shadow?

A) chiaroscuro
B) maestà
C) perspectice
D) naturalism

Question 23

What is the title of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece about a symbolic journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven?

A) La Vita Nuova
B) Inferno
C) Letter to Posterity
D) The Divine Comedy

Question 24

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

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

Question 25

How did the plague impact economic stability in 14^th-century Europe?

Question 26

Who composed the Messe de Notre Dame ?

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

Question 27

What term designates a song for two or three voices with no accompanying instruments?

A) tercet
B) canzone
C) musica ficta
D) madrigal

Question 28

Which pair serve as Dante's guides during his journeys in the Divine Comedy ?

A) Virgil and Aeneas
B) Virgil and Aristotle
C) Virgil and Homer
D) Virgil and Beatrice

Question 29

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

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

Question 30

Give at least three examples of the importance of the number 3 in Dante's Divine Comedy ?

Question 31

The poetic form using sets of three lines with the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, etc. is called __________.

A) model form
B) frame
C) terza rima
D) iambic pentameter

Question 32

In a polyphonic work, what is the device of giving a voice a single, repeating melody?

A) musica ficta
B) harmonic rhythm
C) ars novum
D) isorhythm

Question 33

What term denotes the practice of embellishment or improvising upon written music with sounds not written on the page?

A) musica ficta
B) isorhythmic polyphony
C) ballade harmony
D) cantus novus

Question 34

Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes are called ___________.

A) limericks
B) fabliaux
C) barrel songs
D) motets

Question 35

Which building serves as the city hall of Venice?

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

Who wrote the influential book, Lives of the Artists ?

A) Pazzi
B) Vasari
C) Michelino
D) Dante

Question 38

How did the Ars Nova movement in 14^th-century music get its name?

Question 39

Which is the Mass Ordinary prayer that begins with the words "lamb of God" and is sung just before communion?

A) Agnus Dei
B) Magnificat
C) Gloria
D) Benedictus

Question 40

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