Test 6

A  Sophocles

B  Brethren of Purity

C  Sordello

D  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

A  a counterweight

B  a type of flying buttress

C  a helmet

D  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

A  Beatrice

B  Sappho

C  Venus

D  Antigone

A  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

B  Stained  glass

C  gargoyle designs

D  The book of hours

A  Annunciation by Simone Martini

B  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

C  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

D  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

A  tempera

B  trumeau

C  grisaille

D  acrylic

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

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

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

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  “an almond-shaped halo”

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

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

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

C  “the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle”

D  “the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris”

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  Greek Revival

B  Gothic

C  Palladian

D  Romanesque

A  “abstract and symbolic”

B  “allegorical or mythological”

C  “quadripartite and sequential”

D  “realistic and literal”

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

B  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

C  the human voice

D  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

A  Hildegard of Bingen

B  Saint Francis

C  Saint Augustine

D  Dante Alighieri

A  “the study of the Old Testament”

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  “a movement aimed at reconciling faith and reason

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

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

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

D  “the free, unearned favor of God”

A  Horace

B  Sappho

C  Sophocles

D  Virgil

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

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

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

A  The everyman play

B  The miracle play

C  The mystery play

D  The troubadour plays

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  Dante’s Divine Comedy

B  The Iliad

C  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

D  Beowulf

A  The jamiro

B  The helvetica

C  The hiragana

D  The minuscule

A  Greek drama

B  jongleurs

C  courtly love

D  the morality play

A  The Song of Roland

B  the Divine Comedy

C  the King Author stories

D  Beowulf

A  primogeniture

B  common law

C  chanson de geste

D  crenellations