Question 1

The Golden Bull of 1356 in Germany

Accepted Answer

A)  made Emperor Charles IV the first in a line of hereditary rulers. 
B)  ensured the independence of the ecclesiastical states. 
C)  gave seven electors the power to choose the "king of the Romans." 
D)  ensured strong central authority for Germany in the next century. 
E)  gave limited religious toleration to urban Jews.

Question 2

What was Boccaccio's most famous work?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Divine Comedy 
B)  The Sonnets 
C)  The Prince 
D)  Spiritual Exercises 
E)  The Decameron

Question 3

One of France's advantages toward the end of the Hundred Years' War was its adoption of cannon.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

From 1305 to 1377, the Papacy resided across the French border in the town of

Accepted Answer

A)  Avignon. 
B)  Bordeaux. 
C)  Provence. 
D)  Dijon. 
E)  Paris.

Question 5

The mystic who founded the Modern Devotion movement and led the group known as the Brothers of the Common Life was

Accepted Answer

A)  Meister Eckhart. 
B)  Johannes Tauler. 
C)  Desiderius Erasmus. 
D)  William of Occam. 
E)  Gerard Groote.

Question 6

Ars moriendi refers to the

Accepted Answer

A)  claim of victory in medieval warfare. 
B)  art of dying. 
C)  peasant's dues paid to the manor lord. 
D)  collective regulations of urban craft guilds. 
E)  tithe paid to the church.

Question 7

One overall result of the Great Schism was to

Accepted Answer

A)  put an end to the church's previous financial abuses. 
B)  badly damaged the faith of many Christian believers. 
C)  rejuvenate Christianity as it had been on the decline throughout Europe. 
D)  end the abuse of pluralism. 
E)  reinforce the faith of true rather than false Christians.

Question 8

Dante's Divine Comedy

Accepted Answer

A)  is considered a synthesis of medieval Christian thought. 
B)  was one of the last fourteenth-century works to be written in Latin. 
C)  lashed out at the "barbarity" of the classical tradition. 
D)  attacked the science of Aristotle, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic church. 
E)  was the greatest prose work of the early Renaissance.

Question 9

The crucial battle of the Hundred Years' War that was won by Henry V in 1415 and that led to the treaty and apparent victory in the war for Henry and England was the Battle of

Accepted Answer

A)  Crecy. 
B)  Tours. 
C)  Poitiers. 
D)  Troyes. 
E)  Agincourt.

Question 10

Pogroms were

Accepted Answer

A)  religious ceremonies convened to ask for God's help against the plague. 
B)  small woolen balls people coughed into when infected with the plague. 
C)  organized massacres against the Jews. 
D)  the name given to people believed to be responsible for the Black Death. 
E)  mysterious sites where people could go to miraculously recover from the plague.

Question 11

All of the following are correct about Petrarch except he

Accepted Answer

A)  was a Florentine. 
B)  wrote in the vernacular. 
C)  wrote sonnets in Latin. 
D)  perfected the sonnet form. 
E)  wrote love poems to Laura.

Question 12

In Defender of The Peace, Marsiglio of Padua took the position that

Accepted Answer

A)  popes have authority over the commoners but not over nobles. 
B)  the church must consign itself solely to spiritual functions. 
C)  popes have ultimate authority over all men, even kings. 
D)  the church was entirely illegitimate. 
E)  each king ought to establish his own church in his country.

Question 13

The conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France began when Philip

Accepted Answer

A)  tried to end corruption in the French Church. 
B)  tried to buy the papacy for his nephew, Henry. 
C)  taxed churchmen without the Church's permission. 
D)  denied the existence of witches. 
E)  authorized a French translation of the Bible.

Question 14

The Black Death

Accepted Answer

A)  was one of many European plagues that inflicted Europe from the eighth century onward. 
B)  started in northern Europe and moved southward to Italy. 
C)  recurred in severe outbreaks for centuries. 
D)  never reached England. 
E)  was restricted to Christian Europe, with the Arabic Middle East escaping from most of the devastation.

Question 15

The most revolutionary of thirteenth and fourteenth-century inventions was/were

Accepted Answer

A)  the printing press. 
B)  paper. 
C)  eyeglasses. 
D)  clocks. 
E)  telescope.

Question 16

All of the following were reactions to the great plague except

Accepted Answer

A)  an increase in violence and murder due to a sense of life's cheapness. 
B)  the formation of groups like the flagellants, who physically maimed themselves to save the world. 
C)  a reduction in the persecution of religious minorities because of the displeasure it caused God. 
D)  morbidity and preoccupation with death in everyday life. 
E)  economic depression.

Question 17

The bubonic plague never actually arrived in Europe, but is rather the perpetuation of a medieval myth taken too literally.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by

Accepted Answer

A)  drafting the rebels into the army. 
B)  standing back and letting it run its course. 
C)  negotiating a settlement with its leaders. 
D)  massacring the participants. 
E)  renouncing their historic privileges.

Question 19

The European aristocracy responded to the adversity of the great plague by

Accepted Answer

A)  seeking to lower wages by legal means, especially for farm laborers. 
B)  producing only the most basic foodstuffs, such as grain. 
C)  petitioning kings to order the relocation of laborers. 
D)  forming agricultural cooperatives linking landowners, laborers, and city consumers. 
E)  investing in trade and commerce rather than agricultural production.

Question 20

The Great Schism arose in 1378 when

Accepted Answer

A)  an argument broke out over the nature of the Trinity. 
B)  England broke away from the Catholic Church. 
C)  France was converted to Lutheranism. 
D)  the French cardinals elected a second pope. 
E)  an earthquake split St. Peter's basilica in two.

Exam 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

The Golden Bull of 1356 in Germany

What was Boccaccio's most famous work?

One of France's advantages toward the end of the Hundred Years' War was its adoption of cannon.

From 1305 to 1377, the Papacy resided across the French border in the town of

The mystic who founded the Modern Devotion movement and led the group known as the Brothers of the Common Life was

Ars moriendi refers to the

One overall result of the Great Schism was to

Dante's Divine Comedy

The crucial battle of the Hundred Years' War that was won by Henry V in 1415 and that led to the treaty and apparent victory in the war for Henry and England was the Battle of

Pogroms were

All of the following are correct about Petrarch except he

In Defender of The Peace, Marsiglio of Padua took the position that

The conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France began when Philip

The Black Death

The most revolutionary of thirteenth and fourteenth-century inventions was/were

All of the following were reactions to the great plague except

The bubonic plague never actually arrived in Europe, but is rather the perpetuation of a medieval myth taken too literally.

The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by

The European aristocracy responded to the adversity of the great plague by

The Great Schism arose in 1378 when