Deck 6: The Gothic and the Rebirth of Naturalism

Question 1

Who is the author of the Divine Comedy?

A) Francesco Petrarca
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Giovanni Boccaccio

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Why were women educated privately instead of through the new universities?

A) Women were not allowed to attend the university.
B) Women were a distraction within the educational system.
C) Women's curricula included different material than that for male students.
D) The cult of the Virgin prohibited women from attending universities.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Sorbonne was established to offer studies in

A) music and languages.
B) theology.
C) mathematics and architecture.
D) science and medicine.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following did Chartres Cathedral claim as its most cherished relic?

A) the Crown of Thorns
B) the tunic Mary wore at Jesus' birth
C) a nail from Jesus' crucifixion
D) a remnant of the cross from Jesus' crucifixion

Question 5

Which of the following is a collection of musical works created by many composers-a collection in which the pieces are arranged in cycles to provide music for all the feast days of the Church calendar?

A) Magnus Liber Organi
B) Sic et Non
C) Roman de la Rose
D) Viderunt Omnes

Question 6

Who painted the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government?

A) Ambrogio Lorenzetti
B) Giotto di Bondone
C) Simone Martini
D) Giovanni Pisano

Question 7

In which of the following cities did Robert de Sorbon play a significant role in organizing students?

A) Bologna
B) Oxford
C) Cambridge
D) Paris

Question 8

Which of the following is considered the chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals?

A) to tell the stories of the Bible
B) to provide work for the glaziers
C) to decrease the workload for the masons
D) to enhance the success of the guilds

Question 9

Which of the following was written by a distinguished University of Paris lecturer who taught by the dialectical method?

A) Roman de la Rose
B) Sic et Non
C) Magnus Liber Organi
D) Viderunt Omnes

Question 10

How was the reign of Louis IX considered a model of "perfect rule"?

A) He was a reformer, embracing freedom of thought.
B) He established the structure of the Church's hierarchy of offices.
C) He reformed Church music to antiphonal response.
D) He financially supported the emerging Gothic style in France.

Question 11

Who painted the Maestà (or Virgin and Child),which once hung in the council chamber of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico?

A) Ambrogio Lorenzetti
B) Giotto di Bondone
C) Simone Martini
D) Giovanni Pisano

Question 12

What is unique about the sculptural figures on Reims Cathedral?

A) These fully rounded figures show a significant advance in naturalism in sculpture over a short period of time.
B) The figures are abstract to unify the sculptural program with those created in the earlier Romanesque tradition.
C) They are much taller and thinner because of their placement in the archivolt and trumeau.
D) These sculptures were created to match the local mythology of indigenous, non-Christian religions.

Question 13

In a Gothic church,which of the following was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support and brace it against strong winds?

A) rib vault
B) flying buttress
C) stained-glass windows
D) narthex

Question 14

Who wrote the Summa Theologica and was one of the prominent spokesmen for Scholasticism?

A) Magnus
B) Trotula
C) Abelard
D) Aquinas

Question 15

Which of the following was the precursor for the university system?

A) the madrasa
B) the monastery
C) the pilgrimage route
D) the exchange of ideas during the Crusades

Question 16

What is the minimum number of voices included in a motet?

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 17

Which of the following is a four-part polyphonic composition intended to be sung in the middle of the Christmas Mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris?

A) Magnus Liber Organi
B) Sic et Non
C) Roman de la Rose
D) Viderunt Omnes

Question 18

Why would conservative Christians be reluctant to accept Thomas Aquinas' writings on God?

A) Reason can never know God directly.
B) The summa was in conflict with the current papacy.
C) The political affiliations of Aquinas were in question.
D) The guild influence discredited Aquinas.

Question 19

Which of the following was considered the "spiritual center" of the cult of the Virgin during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?

A) Paris
B) Amiens
C) Reims
D) Chartres

Question 20

In which of the following industries did Florence become the center for production in the Western world?

A) the textile industry
B) the shipping industry
C) the wheelwright industry
D) the grain industry

Question 21

Which of the following provides a startling description of Florence during an outbreak of the plague?

A) The Canterbury Tales
B) the Decameron
C) Book of the City of Ladies
D) The Book of the Deeds and Good Manners of the Wise King Charles V

Question 22

What was the symbolic intent behind the placement of the entrances to the Sainte-Chappelle chapel?

A) The royal family entered on the same level as the dramatic stained glass, which would mirror Louis' own eminence, while others had to enter the chapel on the ground level.
B) The lower level was constructed as support for the extraordinarily high arches of the upper level.
C) The chapel had been constructed as a secret place of worship for Cistercians in the thirteenth century so there was a hidden entrance.
D) The chapel was built on the donations of guilds and the height of all entrances had been determined by this patronage.

Question 23

Summarize how changes in the structure of the walls in a Gothic cathedral permitted the complexity and amount of stained glass at a church such as Chartres Cathedral.

Question 24

Contrast the work of Duccio with that of Simone Martini.

Question 25

On which work is The Canterbury Tales modeled?

A) the Aeneid
B) the Iliad
C) Book of the City of Ladies
D) the Decameron

Question 26

Which of the following is composed of heroic couplets?

A) The Canterbury Tales
B) the Decameron
C) Book of the City of Ladies
D) The Book of the Deeds and Good Manners of the Wise King Charles V

Question 27

Explain the important role of light in Abbot Suger's plan for the Gothic cathedral.

Question 28

With Dante's use of Virgil as his guide,how might the reader understand his attitude toward Classical works?

A) His extensive study of classical works is evidenced by his structure of the epic and reference to Classical figures.
B) His inclusion of Classical figures connects the sin of idolatry with pagan origins.
C) His use of Classical figures implies his love of Classical Greek architecture.
D) The use of Classical references demonstrates a thorough study of the writings of Pliny.

Question 29

Discuss the spread and result of the bubonic plague.

Question 30

Discuss the significance of the work Trotula.