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Quiz 9 on Chapter 11
1. The Holy Roman Empire and the Italian Peninsula did not unite as national
monarchies, in part because
a. dynastic struggles in the ruling houses prevented it.
b. continual armed conflict and shifting alliances prevented the emergence of
strong, centralizing rulers in these territories.
c. both territories were relatively poor and no single ruling family had the
financial and military resources to centralize power in its own hands.
d. both territories were too concerned with checking Ottoman advances for
strong rulers to look to expanding their power within Europe.
e. these territories had no external enemy to encourage unification.
2. Both the Lollard and Hussite movements had what in common?
a. They began in universities.
b. They began among peasants.
c. They began among women.
d. They stressed the importance of educating women.
e. They denied the divinity of Jesus.
3. How did the Black Death impact the power of workers in the fourteenth century?
a. Having a job was so dangerous that workers refused to hold down
consistent jobs.
b. Royal leaders were trying to protect laborers, so workers were restricted in
what jobs they could accept.
c. The cost of doing business increased, and as a result, workers suffered
decreased wages.
d. The plague decreased economic activity, so workers became desperate for
jobs.
e. Labor was very limited, so workers held increased economic power.
4. One reason why Italy became a birthplace of the Renaissance was that it
a. financed a public school system.
b. was the endpoint for many medieval trade routes.
c. quickly absorbed the cultural trends of surrounding areas.
d. had a strong preference for religiously inspired education.
e. lacked a unified political system.
5.
The English Peasants’ Revolt, like other popular uprisings of the fourteenth
century, had its fundamental origins in
a. the repression of the peasants by the nobility in the 1370s.
b.
the king’s decision to convert all freedmen to the status of serfs in 1361.
c. a series of taxes levied to support the English war with Norway.
d. the economic, social, and political consequences of the Black Death.
e.
the English peasants’ desire to be a part of the English parliamentary
process.
6. The Black Death and ensuing social unrest resulted in noble families
a. becoming impoverished.
b. turning to commerce in a bid to make more money.
c. selling off much of their land to small farmers.
d. building large and very strong castles to protect themselves.
e. growing wealthier than they had been.
7. The works of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and de Pizan all demonstrate that
a. that most literature was still written in Latin.
b. the spread of vernacular literacy.
c. that most people who were literate still studied and worked in universities.
d. that there was still no market for professional writers in Europe.
e. that most literature was still very formal.
8. The series of pageant plays performed at York was not only motivated by
devotion but also
a. created such chaos in the town that many heinous crimes were committed
during production.
b. pride in the nation of England.
c. a desire to teach biblical stories to nonbelievers.
d. the desire of the guilds to display their wares in the plays.
e. a desire to mock the royal family.
9.
Historians today generally use the term
Renaissance
to refer to a period
a. in economic history when trade was reborn.
b. in European history when the northern countries dominated the culture of
the Continent.
c. in European history between 1300 and 1550, during which all aspects of
European life were united by a common spirit of the age.
d. of intellectual rebirth after the Dark Ages, when learning had been
extinguished.
e. in intellectual and cultural history, marked by a new interest in the study of
classical learning.
10. The growth of claims to power based on classical models, including patronage of
the arts, occurred in Renaissance Italy due to the
a. admiration Renaissance Italians had for the Emperor Nero.
b.
rediscovery and subsequent popularity of Suetonius’s
Lives of the Caesars
.
c. relative weakness of the Church, which no longer provided an alternate
model.
d. relative weakness of the Holy Roman Emperor, which no longer provided
an alternate model.
e.
rediscovery and subsequent popularity of Aristotle’s
Politics
.
11. Because of the influence of wealthy families who wanted to give their sons a
broad education,
a. many intellectuals who did not have ties to the Church were drawn to Italy.
b. the Church began to decline in importance.
c. a number of universities were founded for the sons of wealthy families.
d. churches began to form schools especially to teach young women.
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