Test 6

A  Sophocles

B  Brethren of Purity

C  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

D  Sordello

A  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

B  a type of flying buttress

C  a counterweight

D  a helmet

A  Venus

B  Antigone

C  Sappho

D  Beatrice

A  gargoyle designs

B  The book of hours

C  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

D  Stained  glass

A  Annunciation by Simone Martini

B  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

C  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

D  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

A  grisaille

B  acrylic

C  trumeau

D  tempera

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

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

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

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

A  “the semicircular space within the arch of the portal

B  “an almond-shaped halo”

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

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

A  “the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris”

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

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

D  “the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle”

A  in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France

B  in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France

C  in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

D  in the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France

A  Romanesque

B  Palladian

C  Greek Revival

D  Gothic

A  “realistic and literal”

B  “abstract and symbolic”

C  “allegorical or mythological”

D  “quadripartite and sequential”

A  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

B  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

C  the human voice

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

A  Saint Francis

B  Dante Alighieri

C  Saint Augustine

D  Hildegard of Bingen

A  “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.”

B  “the study of the Old Testament”

C  “a movement aimed at reconciling faith and reason

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

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

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

D  “the free, unearned favor of God”

A  Sappho

B  Horace

C  Sophocles

D  Virgil

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

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

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 everyman play

B  The miracle play

C  The troubadour plays

D  The mystery play

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

B  “a feudal postal system involving knights on horseback

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

D  “flexible armor made of interlocking metal rings”

A  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

B  Beowulf

C  The Iliad

D  Dante’s Divine Comedy

A  The helvetica

B  The hiragana

C  The minuscule

D  The jamiro

A  Greek drama

B  jongleurs

C  courtly love

D  the morality play

A  the King Author stories

B  Beowulf

C  The Song of Roland

D  the Divine Comedy

A  crenellations

B  chanson de geste

C  primogeniture

D  common law