Test 6

A  Sophocles

B  Brethren of Purity

C  Sordello

D  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

A  a type of flying buttress

B  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

C  a counterweight

D  a helmet

A  Antigone

B  Venus

C  Beatrice

D  Sappho

A  The book of hours

B  Stained  glass

C  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

D  gargoyle designs

A  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

B  Annunciation by Simone Martini

C  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

D  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

A  tempera

B  grisaille

C  trumeau

D  acrylic

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

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

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

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

A  “an almond-shaped halo”

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

C  “the semicircular space within the arch of the portal

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

A  “the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle”

B  “the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris”

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

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

A  in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

B  in the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France

C  in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France

D  in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France

A  Palladian

B  Romanesque

C  Gothic

D  Greek Revival

A  “abstract and symbolic”

B  “quadripartite and sequential”

C  “allegorical or mythological”

D  “realistic and literal”

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

B  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

C  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

D  the human voice

A  Hildegard of Bingen

B  Dante Alighieri

C  Saint Francis

D  Saint Augustine

A  “a movement aimed at reconciling faith and reason

B  “the study of the Old Testament”

C  “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.”

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

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

A  Sappho

B  Sophocles

C  Horace

D  Virgil

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

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

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

D  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.”

A  The everyman play

B  The miracle play

C  The mystery play

D  The troubadour plays

A  “a feudal postal system involving knights on horseback

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

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  Beowulf

B  Dante’s Divine Comedy

C  The Iliad

D  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

A  The helvetica

B  The minuscule

C  The hiragana

D  The jamiro

A  Greek drama

B  the morality play

C  jongleurs

D  courtly love

A  Beowulf

B  the King Author stories

C  the Divine Comedy

D  The Song of Roland

A  primogeniture

B  common law

C  crenellations

D  chanson de geste