Test 6

A  Brethren of Purity

B  Sordello

C  Sophocles

D  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

A  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

B  a type of flying buttress

C  a counterweight

D  a helmet

A  Antigone

B  Venus

C  Sappho

D  Beatrice

A  Stained  glass

B  The book of hours

C  gargoyle designs

D  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

A  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

B  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

C  Annunciation by Simone Martini

D  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

A  trumeau

B  tempera

C  acrylic

D  grisaille

A  “a musical technique that involves two or more independent melodies; the term is often used interchangeably with ‘polyphony'”

B  “tone color; the distinctive tone or quality of sound made by a voice or a musical instrument”

C  “a Mass for the Dead; a solemn chant to honor the dead”

D  “an addition of words, music or both to Gregorian chants”

A  “a horizontal beam or stone that spans an opening”

B  “the semicircular space within the arch of the portal

C  “the arcaded passage between the nave aracde and the clerestory”

D  “an almond-shaped halo”

A  “the lords and vassals who kept the feudal society under control”

B  “the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris”

C  “the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle”

D  “the great percentage of people who could neither read nor write”

A  in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France

B  in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France

C  in the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France

D  in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

A  Palladian

B  Greek Revival

C  Gothic

D  Romanesque

A  “quadripartite and sequential”

B  “abstract and symbolic”

C  “allegorical or mythological”

D  “realistic and literal”

A  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

B  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

C  the human voice

D  the tradition of “sand dancing” first started by Benedictine monks

A  Dante Alighieri

B  Hildegard of Bingen

C  Saint Augustine

D  Saint Francis

A  “a movement aimed at reconciling faith and reason

B  “the body of unwritten law developed primarily from judicial decisions based on custom and precedent; the basis of the English legal system and that of all states in the United States with the exception of Louisiana.”

C  “the study of the Old Testament”

A  “a sacred rite or pledge; in medieval Christianity, a visible sign (instiuted by Jesus Christ) of God’s grace.”

B  “the free, unearned favor of God”

C  “a warning of the closeness of death and the need to prepare for one’s own death”

D  “the excommunication of an entire city, district or state”

A  Sophocles

B  Sappho

C  Virgil

D  Horace

A  the collected name for the three epics: The Song of Nibelungen, the Song of Roland and Beowulf.

B  “a vast compendium of virtually all of the major theological issues of the High Middle Ages”

C  a multivolume work that “distinguishes between the earthly city of humankind and the heavenly city that is the eternal dwelling place of the Christian soul.”

D  a “musical technique that involves two or more independent melodies; this term is often used interchangeably with ‘polyphony'”

A  The miracle play

B  The troubadour plays

C  The mystery play

D  The everyman play

A  “flexible armor made of interlocking metal rings”

B  A rigging system, invented by the Vikings, to control the ships sails and take advantage of the wind.

C  “a system where books are hand-drawn in an attempt to make exact copies”

D  “a feudal postal system involving knights on horseback

A  Beowulf

B  Dante’s Divine Comedy

C  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

D  The Iliad

A  The hiragana

B  The helvetica

C  The jamiro

D  The minuscule

A  jongleurs

B  Greek drama

C  courtly love

D  the morality play

A  The Song of Roland

B  the King Author stories

C  Beowulf

D  the Divine Comedy

A  common law

B  crenellations

C  primogeniture

D  chanson de geste