Humanities Early Medieval World

Question 1

The days of the week were derived from the names of the ___________

Answer 1

Saxon gods

Question 2

Tuesday

Answer 2

Tiw

Question 3

Wednesday

Answer 3

Woden

Question 4

Thursday

Answer 4

Thor

Question 5

Friday

Answer 5

Frigg, Woden wife

Question 6

The Saxon word ______ can be translated as “fort”

Answer 6

bury

Question 7

The Saxon word __________ can be translated as “camp”

Answer 7

chester

Question 8

Free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres

Answer 8

Churls

Question 9

Anglo Saxon law was based on ________ or “life-price” of an individual.

Answer 9

wergeld

Question 10

The epic poem, __________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.

Answer 10

Beowulf

Question 11

One of its most notable literary features, common to Old English literature, is its reliance on compound phrases, or __________, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing.

Answer 11

kennings

Question 12

Around 563, an Irish monk, __________, founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona.

Answer 12

Columba

Question 13

_____________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.

Answer 13

Augustine

Question 14

_________________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.

Answer 14

Bishop Eadfrith

Question 15

The first Celtic cross was made by ________ who made the ark of a Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument.

Answer 15

St. Patrick

Question 16

On Christmas day, 800 CE, _____________ crowned _____________ emperor of the Roman Empire.

Answer 16

Pope Leo III, Charlemagne

Question 17

____________ was made from the ivory of an elephant’s tusk.

Answer 17

Roland’s horn

Question 18

The strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of:

Answer 18

courage of battle
loyalty to his lord and peers
a courtesy verging on reverence towards women

Question 19

The rule of _____________ was imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom.

Answer 19

Benedict of Nursia

Question 20

The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the ____________.

Answer 20

refectory

Question 21

________, abbess of Whitby, ran one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries, a community of both monks and nuns.

Answer 21

Hilda

Question 22

A ______ refers to a musical note used in Gregotian chants.

Answer 22

neum

Question 23

The _____________ documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

Answer 23

Bayeux Tapestry

Question 24

The __________ resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so that he could more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army.

Answer 24

Domesday Book

Question 25

_____________ claimed as its relic the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ.

Answer 25

Chartres

Question 26

___________ claimed as its relic the bones of Mary Magdalene.

Answer 26

Vezelay

Question 27

The _______________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space shaped like a half cylinder.

Answer 27

barrel vault

Question 28

The ___________ refers to wedge shaped stones that form the arch in the Romanesque church.

Answer 28

voussoir

Question 29

The ____________ refers to an almond shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists.

Answer 29

mandalora

Question 30

________________ was the author of On the Misery of the Human Condition, whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church.

Answer 30

Pope Innocent II

Question 31

The translation for_________________ is the reminder of death.

Answer 31

memento mori

Question 32

_____________ is often credited with developing one of the first effective systems of music notation, a method which used the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale.

Answer 32

Odo of Cluny

Question 33

____________________ introduced the idea of depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line.

Answer 33

Guido of Arezzo

Question 34

__________ manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in its becoming one of the most powerful city-states in the eastern Mediterranean.

Answer 34

Venice

Question 35

In the decade that she lived at Poitiers, ____________________, countess of ________________, established that city as the center of secular culture and literary movement that celebrated that art of courtly love.

Answer 35

Eleanor and her daughter, Champagne

Question 36

_________________ composed “Cruel art the pains I’ve suffered.”

Answer 36

Beatriz de dia

Question 37

___________________ composed Lancelot, which centered on the adventures of a knight in King Arthur’s court.

Answer 37

Chretien de Troyes

Question 38

_______________ is considered an example of the “medieval romance.”

Answer 38

Lancelot