Unit 2 Examination GED 120 Introduction to Humanities Multiple Choice Questions 1) Which statement is best associated with the Viking age? a. pilgrims traveled the great “roads” to reach Santiago de Compostela b. Norse raiders plundered much of Christian Europe c. Europe blossomed with a “white mantle of churches” d. an age of tolerance was instituted in Muslim Spain 2) Which name or term is best associated with the development of sacred music in medieval Christianity? a. interlace b. St. Benedict c. archivolt d. Guido of Arezzo 3) Who would have most likely sung the Song of Roland? a. a Cluniac monk b. a student of Abelard c. a Norman minstrel d. a feudal peasant 4) In or on which of these would one expect to find a trope? a. a carved ivory Bible cover of the early Middle Ages b. a chapel of the abbey church of Cluny c. the singing of a Gregorian chant d. the carved capitals of a Romanesque church 5) Which of these figures engaged in a famous exchange of letters with a prominent medieval philosopher? a. Heloïse b. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim c. William the Conqueror d. abbess of Cluny 6) What phrase best describes John the Scot’s (or Erigena’s) book On Nature? a. the account of a medieval pilgrim’s journey b. an important tract in the nominalist debate c. an epic reflecting chivalric and military values d. a Neoplatonic study of categories of being 7) What was it called when a musician elaborated on a musical syllable by adding a chain of additional notes? a. tympanum b. melisma c. plainchant d. cantus 8) Which of these figures was noted for assertive religious leadership, mystical religious writings, and the composition of exquisite sacred song? a. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim b. Hildegard of Bingen c. Peter Abelard d. Charlemagne 9) In what pursuit is solmization useful or important? a. the chanson de geste b. medieval combat c. musical education d Romanesque architecture 10) Which would have decorated the portal of a Romanesque church? a. monophonic melisma b. trivium relief c. tympanum sculpture d. manuscript illumination 11) Which term is best associated with the flowering of civilization in Muslim Spain at the capitals of Cordoba and Granada? a. al-Andalus b. pilgrimage c. cloister d. mysticism 12) What statement best describes Christine de Pisan? a. a Cluniac monk who later became an important pope b. a Chaucer character of frank sensuality and practicality c. the Jewish author of a work on Aristotle and Hebrew scripture d. author of a philosophical dialogue praising women 13) Which of these themes was most important in Abbot Suger’s development of the Gothic style? a. the discovery of Aristotle b. the renunciation of all material wealth c. the church as a fortress against sin d. the mysticism of light 14) Which statement best describes the late Middle Ages’ fervent devotion to the Virgin Mary? a. led to greater social equality for medieval women b. correspond ...