CWC Unit #2 Oct. 17 Quiz

Question 1

Francis of Assisi - Who

Answer 1

Italian Monk

Question 2

Francis of Assisi - When

Answer 2

AD 1181 - 1226

Question 3

Francis of Assisi - Where

Answer 3

Assisi, Italy

Question 4

Francis of Assisi - Significance

Answer 4

founded Franciscan Monasticism
dedicating life to itinerant preaching, life of poverty and service

Question 5

Hildegard of Bingen - Who

Answer 5

Abbess (leader of monastery for women), composer, scientist, and advisor to kings and popes

Question 6

Hildegard - When

Answer 6

AD 1098 - 1179

Question 7

Hildegard - Where

Answer 7

Bingen, Germany

Question 8

Hildegard - Significance

Answer 8

Known for her visions from God
Demonstrates direct spritual experience, visible role of women in medieval life

Question 9

Sacraments - What

Answer 9

a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant

Question 10

Sacraments - When

Answer 10

confirmed by the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215

Question 11

Sacraments - Significance

Answer 11

crucial to a Christian’s salvation, acting as visible signs of God’s grace and marking key life events

Question 12

Aquinas - Who

Answer 12

Western Medieval Philosopher

Question 13

Aquinas - When

Answer 13

1225 - 1275

Question 14

Aquinas - Where

Answer 14

Italy

Question 15

Aquinas - Significance

Answer 15

synthesizes Aristotle and Christianity
God has revealed truth in the natural world as well as supernaturally
1. Eternal (governs the entire universe)
2. Divine (revealed law)
3. Natural (revealed in nature through reason)
4. Human (laws for social and historical contexts)
Beatitude - “blessedness”

Question 16

Averroes - Who

Answer 16

muslim
major commentator on the works of Aristotle
a chief judge and physician

Question 17

Averroes - When

Answer 17

AD 1126 - 1198

Question 18

Averroes - Where

Answer 18

Cordoba, Spain & Morocco

Question 19

Averroes - Significance

Answer 19

Argued that Islam not only allows, but requires scholarly work
study past scholars and work that is already done

Question 20

High Middle Ages - What

Answer 20

A period of growth in the Middle Ages

Question 21

High Middle Ages - When

Answer 21

AD 1000 - 1300

Question 22

High Mid Ages - Where

Answer 22

Europe

Question 23

High Mid Ages - Significance

Answer 23

Thriving culture
growth of city and population
growth of universities and cathedrals

Question 24

Excommunication

Answer 24

a formal act of religious censure that removes a person from a religious community or limits their membership rights
exclusion from the sacraments

Question 25

Crusades

Answer 25

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period
AD 1095 - 1291

Question 26

Penance

Answer 26

a punishment undertaken as a part of repenting one’s sins
a necessary step for removing the stain of sin from one’s soul

Question 27

Scholasticism

Answer 27

medieval synthesis of philosophy and theology
worshipping God w/ the mind

Question 28

“rich and poor; freeman, slave; little child, boy, youth, young man…”

Answer 28

Bede’s Penitential (Penance)

Question 29

“fiery light”
“inflamed”
“burning”
“sun”

“women as large as a city”

Answer 29

Hildegard of Bingen

Vision 3

Question 30

“Muslim”
“religion is true and summons to the study which leads to knowledge of the Truth”

Answer 30

Averroes - On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy

Question 31

“God made himself poor in this world for us.”

Answer 31

St Francis of Assisi - The Rule of the Franciscan Order

Question 32

“natural law and human law”
“end of eternal beatitude”

Answer 32

St Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica