Final (Quiz 5)

Question 1

Scholasticism refers to:

Answer 1

Philosophical and pedagogical method used by faculty of the cathedral schools and universities, the belief that everything happens for a reason, and the idea that faith was a rational activity.

Question 2

The scholastic movement is most closely associated with Dominicans like ______ and his student ______.

Answer 2

Albertus Magnus; Thomas Aquinas.

Question 3

Gothic architecture’s most distinctive characteristic is:

Answer 3

The pointed arch.

Question 4

Robert Grosseteste’s “single best-known discovery”, in the field of optics, was:

Answer 4

The first solid explanation of the cause of rainbows and description of the color spectrum.

Question 5

Approximately ____ days out of each year were Church-proclaimed holidays (holy days) during which there was to be no work.

Answer 5

100.

Question 6

The original sources that tell us the story of Abelard and Heliose are:

Answer 6

Letters between Abelard and Heliose.

Question 7

Abelard was:

Answer 7

The son of a knight and the eldest son.

Question 8

According to Heliose, Abelard was:

Answer 8

A gifted musical composer, a gifted singer, and motivated by lust for her, not affection.

Question 9

Abelard established a school at Mont-Sainte-Genevieve, from which ______ was to grow.

Answer 9

The University of Paris.

Question 10

Betty Radise tells us that Heliose, in adulthood, was:

Answer 10

A respected abbess of a famous convent.

Question 11

In the 11th century, ______ was the strongest European monarchy; by the 13th century, ______ had emerged as Europe’s strongest monarchy.

Answer 11

Germany; France.

Question 12

According to Backman, the disasters of the fourteenth century were:

Answer 12

Both long-simmering and sudden.

Question 13

From the Grecho-Romans medieval Europeans inherited the twin notions of what?

Answer 13

Individual rights and public duty.