Human 030 - The Beginnings of Civilization » Fall 2019 » Test 6

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Question #1
"The eldest son of an upper-class family inherited his father's fief under the principle of" WHAT?
A.   primogeniture
B.   chanson de geste
C.   crenellations
D.   common law
Question #2
According to Fiero, "as with other works in the oral tradition  (the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad, for instance)," THIS "is grandiose in its demension and profound in its lyric power.  Its rugged Old French verse describes a culture that prized the performance of heroic deeds that brought honor to the warrior, his lord and his religion."  What is this work?
A.   The Song of Roland
B.   Beowulf
C.   the Divine Comedy
D.   the King Author stories
Question #3
According to Fiero, this tradition "contributed to shaping modern Western concepts of gender and courtship.  It also worked to define the romantic perception of woman as objects, particularly objects of reward for the performance of brave deeds."  What is the tradition?
A.   courtly love
B.   Greek drama
C.   the morality play
D.   jongleurs
Question #4
Fiero writes "Carolingian copyists rejected the Roman script, which lack punctuation and spaces between words, in favor of a neat, uniform writing style know as the" WHAT?
A.   The helvetica
B.   The jamiro
C.   The minuscule
D.   The hiragana
Question #5
What does Fiero claim is "the first monumental literary composition in a Eupopean vernacular language"?
A.   The Iliad
B.   Dante's Divine Comedy
C.   Saint Augustine's Confessions
D.   Beowulf
Question #6
What is "chain mail"?
A.   "flexible armor made of interlocking metal rings"
B.   "a system where books are hand-drawn in an attempt to make exact copies"
C.   "a feudal postal system involving knights on horseback
D.   A rigging system, invented by the Vikings, to control the ships sails and take advantage of the wind.
Question #7
According to Fiero, this type of medievel play "dramatised bibilical history from the fall of Lucifer to the Last Judgement."  What is this type of play?
A.   The mystery play
B.   The everyman play
C.   The troubadour plays
D.   The miracle play
Question #8
According to Fiero, what was Summa Theologica?
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.
Question #9
In the Divine Comedy, Dante is "accompanied through Hell by" this "poet." Who is this poet?
A.   Virgil
B.   Sophocles
C.   Horace
D.   Sappho
Question #10
What is memento mori?
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.   "the excommunication of an entire city, district or state"
D.   "a sacred rite or pledge; in medieval Christianity, a visible sign (instiuted by Jesus Christ) of God's grace."
Question #11
What is Scholasticism?
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
Question #12
Who was an abbess?
A.   Dante Alighieri
B.   Hildegard of Bingen
C.   Saint Augustine
D.   Saint Francis
Question #13
According to Fiero, "Musical instruments first appeared in religious music not for the purpose of accompanying songs, as with troubadour poems and folk epics, but to substitute for" THIS.  What is THIS?
A.   the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks
B.   the tradition of "sand dancing" first started by Benedictine monks
C.   the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks
D.   the human voice
Question #14
According to Fiero, "responsive to the combined influence of Germanic, Islamic and Byzantine arts, medieval painting styles were generally" THIS.  What is THIS?
A.   "abstract and symbolic"
B.   "quadripartite and sequential"
C.   "allegorical or mythological"
D.   "realistic and literal"
Question #15
According to Fiero, "Seventeenth-century Neoclassicists coined" THIS TERM "to codemn a [architectural] style they judged to be a 'rude and barbarous' alternative to the Classical style."  What is  this term?
A.   Romanesque
B.   Gothic
C.   Palladian
D.   Greek Revival
Question #16
According to Fiero, where were flying butresses first used?
A.   in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France
B.   in the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France
C.   in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
D.   in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France
Question #17
Fiero writes that "the fusion of dogma and fantasy that characterises so much Romanesque sculpture must have mad a tremendous impact on" WHAT GROUP?
A.   "the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle"
B.   "the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris"
C.   "the great percentage of people who could neither read nor write"
D.   "the lords and vassals who kept the feudal society under control"
Question #18
In architecture, what is a lintel?
A.   "an almond-shaped halo"
B.   "a horizontal beam or stone that spans an opening"
C.   "the semicircular space within the arch of the portal
D.   "the arcaded passage between the nave aracde and the clerestory"
Question #19
In music, what is a "counterpoint"?
A.   "an addition of words, music or both to Gregorian chants"
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.   "a Mass for the Dead; a solemn chant to honor the dead"
Question #20
What is a "powered pigmet that produces dry, flat surface color"?
A.   trumeau
B.   grisaille
C.   acrylic
D.   tempera
Question #21
What is the name of the tempera on wood piece and who painted this "late thirtheeth-century alterpiece" that depicts "the Virgin and Child elevated on a monumental seat that is both a throne and a tower"? 
A.   The Alba Madonna by Raphael
B.   Annunciation by Simone Martini
C.   Madona Enthroned by Cimabue
D.   Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Question #22
With what is Abbot Suger most closely associated?
A.   gargoyle designs
B.   composing music for dance and secular entertainments
C.   Stained  glass
D.   The book of hours
Question #23
According to the Danteworlds website “Dante, under the guidance of”  HER, “completes his journey to the afterlife by leaving the earth and rising through the ten celestial heavens of the ancient cosmos.”
A.   Antigone
B.   Beatrice
C.   Venus
D.   Sappho
Question #24
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art website(s) on Medieval art (link is in modules), what is a Spangenhelm?
A.   a counterweight
B.   a helmet
C.   a type of flying buttress
D.   food rations for soldiers in the Crusades
Question #25
The Danteworlds website explains that in the Divine Comedy, Virgil and Dante see”  HIM “seated off by himself, like a lion at rest attentively eyeing the travelers as they approach. He is proud and dignified but very affectionate with Virgil when he learns they are from the same city.”
A.   Sophocles
B.   Johannes Scotus Eriugena
C.   Brethren of Purity
D.   Sordello

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