Test 6

A  Brethren of Purity

B  Sordello

C  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

D  Sophocles

A  a type of flying buttress

B  a helmet

C  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

D  a counterweight

A  Beatrice

B  Venus

C  Antigone

D  Sappho

A  gargoyle designs

B  Stained  glass

C  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

D  The book of hours

A  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

B  Annunciation by Simone Martini

C  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

D  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

A  trumeau

B  tempera

C  grisaille

D  acrylic

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

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

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 arcaded passage between the nave aracde and the clerestory”

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

C  “an almond-shaped halo”

D  “the semicircular space within the arch of the portal

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 the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France

B  in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

C  in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France

D  in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France

A  Romanesque

B  Gothic

C  Palladian

D  Greek Revival

A  “quadripartite and sequential”

B  “abstract and symbolic”

C  “realistic and literal”

D  “allegorical or mythological”

A  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

B  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

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

D  the human voice

A  Hildegard of Bingen

B  Saint Augustine

C  Saint Francis

D  Dante Alighieri

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 free, unearned favor of God”

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 excommunication of an entire city, district or state”

A  Sophocles

B  Virgil

C  Sappho

D  Horace

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

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 troubadour plays

C  The miracle play

D  The mystery play

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

B  “a feudal postal system involving knights on horseback

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

D  “flexible armor made of interlocking metal rings”

A  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

B  The Iliad

C  Beowulf

D  Dante’s Divine Comedy

A  The minuscule

B  The jamiro

C  The hiragana

D  The helvetica

A  the morality play

B  jongleurs

C  courtly love

D  Greek drama

A  the King Author stories

B  the Divine Comedy

C  Beowulf

D  The Song of Roland

A  chanson de geste

B  primogeniture

C  common law

D  crenellations