Test 6

A  Sordello

B  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

C  Brethren of Purity

D  Sophocles

A  a helmet

B  food rations for soldiers in the Crusades

C  a type of flying buttress

D  a counterweight

A  Antigone

B  Sappho

C  Venus

D  Beatrice

A  The book of hours

B  composing music for dance and secular entertainments

C  Stained  glass

D  gargoyle designs

A  Madona Enthroned by Cimabue

B  Madonna del Latte by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

C  The Alba Madonna by Raphael

D  Annunciation by Simone Martini

A  grisaille

B  acrylic

C  tempera

D  trumeau

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  “an addition of words, music or both to Gregorian chants”

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

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

B  “the semicircular space within the arch of the portal

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

D  “an almond-shaped halo”

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

B  “the cloistered monks of Sainte Chapelle”

C  “the cloistered monks of Notre Dame, Paris”

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

A  in Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France

B  in the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France

C  in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

D  in the abbey of Jumièges in Rouen, France

A  Romanesque

B  Palladian

C  Gothic

D  Greek Revival

A  “realistic and literal”

B  “abstract and symbolic”

C  “allegorical or mythological”

D  “quadripartite and sequential”

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

B  the hand clapping tradition developed by Franciscan monks

C  the human voice

D  the trained birds first started by Cistercian monks

A  Saint Francis

B  Saint Augustine

C  Hildegard of Bingen

D  Dante Alighieri

A  “the study of the Old Testament”

B  “a movement aimed at reconciling faith and reason

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

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

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

D  “the free, unearned favor of God”

A  Sappho

B  Virgil

C  Horace

D  Sophocles

A  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.”

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

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

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

A  The troubadour plays

B  The everyman play

C  The miracle play

D  The mystery play

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  Saint Augustine’s Confessions

B  Beowulf

C  Dante’s Divine Comedy

D  The Iliad

A  The minuscule

B  The hiragana

C  The helvetica

D  The jamiro

A  Greek drama

B  courtly love

C  jongleurs

D  the morality play

A  the Divine Comedy

B  The Song of Roland

C  the King Author stories

D  Beowulf

A  chanson de geste

B  common law

C  primogeniture

D  crenellations