Western Civilization Practice Exam V

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  1. Roman bishops used the Petrine Doctrine to
  2. Your answer:
    christianize the pagans
    establish their authority over other bishops
    suppress heresy
    make Peter a saint


  3. The monk most responsible for the spread of monasticism in the West was
  4. Your answer:
    Charles the Great
    Benedict
    Basil
    Leo I


  5. Arius was
  6. Your answer:
    declared a heretic because he denied the divinity of Christ
    the Irish monk who began converting the Germans to christianity
    the monk who sat on a pillar for 37 years
    the German king who sacked Rome in 476 A.D.


  7. According to some early church fathers, women were
  8. Your answer:
    a blessing from God
    put on earth to lead men from sin
    responsible for leading many men to sin
    equal to men


  9. The advance of the Moors into Europe was halted at
  10. Your answer:
    Tours
    ilvian Bridge
    Toledo
    Adrianople


  11. The major accomplishment of Alfred the Great was
  12. Your answer:
    spreading religious education in England
    unifying the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
    halting the Moslem invasion of Europe
    converting the Angles and Saxons to christianity


  13. During the time of the Merovingians, succession was often determined by
  14. Your answer:
    making the eldest son the king
    violence and assassination
    the king's will
    the Pope


  15. The first Carolingian to become king was
  16. Your answer:
    Pepin II
    Charles the Great
    Pepin the Short
    Charles Martel


  17. When Clovis died
  18. Your answer:
    his eldest son inherited the kingdom
    the kingdom was divided into three areas
    the kingdom was conquered by the Franks
    the kingdom was conquered by the Gauls


  19. Under the Merovingians, the most important government official was the
  20. Your answer:
    mayor of the palace
    Count
    argrave
    missi dominici


  21. The poem about Charlemagne's campaign in Spain was the
  22. Your answer:
    Song of Roland
    Adventures of Roland
    History of Charlemagne
    Life of Charlemagne


  23. In 711
  24. Your answer:
    the Moslems invaded Spain
    the Moslems were defeated by Charles Martel
    the Moslems invaded the kingdom of the Franks
    the Moslems defeated Roland


  25. The major accomplishment of Justinian was
  26. Your answer:
    the unification of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
    the defeat of the Moslems at the battle of Tours
    the corpus juris civilis
    the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons


  27. The Koran is the
  28. Your answer:
    flight of Mohammed from Mecca
    history written by Procopius
    sacred book of Islam
    sacred shrine of Islam


  29. Weregeld refers to
  30. Your answer:
    the value placed on a member of a German tribe
    the Germanic practice of trial by ordeal
    the part of the day that monks read the Bible
    groups of German warriors


  31. The ________ helped convert Germanic warriors into professional cavalry
  32. Your answer:
    weregeld
    scriptoria
    jihad
    stirrup


  33. Part of the Rule of St. Benedict was submission to
  34. Your answer:
    God
    the abbot
    the count
    the bishop


  35. The monk who sat on a pole for thirty seven years to purify himself and avoid temptation was
  36. Your answer:
    Benedict
    Augustine
    Basil
    Simeon


  37. The book that tells about life in Baghdad is
  38. Your answer:
    The Life of Charlemagne
    The Song of Roland
    The Arabian Nights
    The Ecclesiastical History of the English People


  39. The dispute between the eastern and western Christian churches was over
  40. Your answer:
    the Arian controversy
    the Donation of Pepin
    the Council of Nicaea
    the iconoclastic controversy


  41. The European economy depended on
  42. Your answer:
    trade
    the development of new technologies
    the conquest of new territories
    agriculture


  43. The economy in the Middle East depended on
  44. Your answer:
    wheat and barley
    the development of new technologies
    banking
    trade


  45. Mohammed's flight from Mecca is known as the
  46. Your answer:
    Kaaba
    Koran
    jihad
    Hegira


  47. The largest city in western Europe in the 800s and 900s was
  48. Your answer:
    Tours
    Cordoba
    Paris
    London


  49. The greatest intellectual contribution of Islam to the West was in the area of
  50. Your answer:
    law
    art
    mathematics and medicine
    literature



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