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UNIT 3 CORRECTIVE: The Medieval World
***IN ORDER TO TAKE FORM B, YOU MUST TURN IN THIS CORRECTIVE***
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Muhammad left Mecca because
a. he believed Allah commanded him to do so.
b. he wanted to spread his message.
c. his teachings made it unsafe for him to stay there.
d. the Kaaba had been destroyed.
2. A Muslim who states, “There is no god but God [Allah], and Muhammad is the messenger of God,” has
fulfilled the
a. first pillar of Islam.
c. pilgrimage to Mecca.
b. Ten Commandments.
d. giving of alms.
3. During Ramadan, Muslims are required to
a. read the Qur’an.
b. follow the lessons in the Sunna.
c. make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
d. go without food or drink from dawn to dusk.
4. The Muslim place of worship is called a
a. minaret.
c. Kaaba.
b. hadith.
d. mosque.
5. Which of the following Muslim scholars wrote a history of the world and warned historians against having
bias?
a. Ibn Sina
c. Ibn Khaldun
b. Ibn Rushd
d. Ibn Sufi
6. Muslim artists avoided using figures and instead painted
a. elaborate landscape scenes.
b. colorful, abstract patterns.
c. geometric patterns and floral designs.
d. birds, insects, and reptiles.
7. At the time of Muhammad’s birth, what brought religious pilgrims to Mecca?
a. the House of Wisdom
c. the Dome of the Rock
b. the Kaaba
d. the variety of mosques
8. Some Christians objected to the presence of icons in churches because they believed
a. icons gave iconoclasts too much power.
b. the use of icons was too close to the worship of idols.
c. icons would be used to teach illiterate people about Christianity.
d. icons had little artistic merit.
9. The schism of 1054
a. increased the power of the pope.
b. ended the golden age of Byzantine art and architecture.
c. created two distinct churches.
d. led to the beginning of Muslim invasions of the Byzantine Empire.
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____ 10. Yaroslav successfully dealt with western Europe by
a. promising to make Roman Catholicism the state religion.
b. threatening to attack with his mighty army.
c. arranging marriages between his daughters and European princes.
d. bringing order and peace to the Slavs.
____ 11. Which of the following was the main threat to Kievan Rus following the death of Yaroslav the Wise?
a. Muslim invaders from the south
b. deepening divisions within the church
c. the increasing power of princes within the state’s borders
d. Mongol invaders from the east
____ 12. Cyril and Methodius successfully converted many Moravians to Christianity because they
a. spoke Russian.
c. had the backing of the pope.
b. possessed superior weapons.
d. spoke the Slavonic language.
____ 13. What was the goal of the Teutonic Knights?
a. to banish Jews from Germany
b. to conquer the Swedes
c. to force Russians to convert to Roman Catholicism
d. to set up a feudal society in Russia
____ 14. Who was responsible for the successful introduction of Christianity to England?
a. Augustine of Canterbury
c. Clovis
b. Alfred the Great
d. Patrick
____ 15. Although the people of Constantinople referred to themselves as Romans
a. the eastern emperors were not interested in restoring the original Roman Empire.
b. they were actually descendants of Germanic tribes.
c. the emperor made Latin the official language instead of Greek.
d. Greek cultural influences grew stronger over time.
____ 16. Who were the Rus?
a. three brothers from Constantinople who set up a trading post in Kiev
b. northern Europeans, perhaps Vikings, who united the Slavs along the Dnieper River and
formed a state called Kievan Rus
c. Slavs who were imprisoned by the Khazars
d. three sisters who fought the Khazars to liberate Slavic tribes from Kievan Rus
____ 17. Why was the Cyrillic alphabet developed?
a. to enable historians to record the history of the Rus
b. to write the sacred text of the Slavic pagan religion
c. to translate the religious texts of Byzantine Christianity for the Slavs
d. to provide traders and merchants a way to record economic transactions
____ 18. Which of the following statements correctly represents Charlemagne’s views about education?
a. Education should only include military training and agricultural skills.
b. All leaders should learn to read and write.
c. Scholars are useless in an empire.
d. Only upper-class women need to receive an education.
____ 19. Which king drove the Vikings north of London?
a. William
c. Harold
b. Henry
d. Alfred
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____ 20. Europe became a feudal society because
a. the rarity of cash required land to be used as a payment for services.
b. Europeans needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.
c. overpopulation required that a more efficient agricultural system be developed.
d. skilled craftspeople had emerged as farming techniques improved.
____ 21. The pope’s influence in the Middle Ages resulted from
a. the fact that nearly everyone in Europe was Christian.
b. the economic influence of the Papal States.
c. the powerful army he headed under General Charlemagne.
d. his appointment by the Roman Emperor.
____ 22. What led to the split in the Christian Church in 1054?
a. the defeat of the Papal States by Otto the Great
b. the desire of Henry IV for a divorce from his wife
c. a pacifist group’s opposition to the Crusades
d. the refusal of the patriarch of Constantinople to recognize the pope’s authority
____ 23. Which of the following is considered one of the most important leaders in European history?
a. Charles Martel
c. Hugh Capet
b. Louis the Pious
d. Charlemagne
____ 24. Vikings began raiding northern Europe because
a. they wanted to stop attacks on Scandinavia.
b. they had converted to Christianity and sought Christian relics.
c. they wanted to spread their religion.
d. Viking farmers could not grow enough food.
____ 25. The feudal system had which of the following effects?
a. It centralized government.
b. It diminished the power of kings.
c. It increased the pope’s power.
d. It freed most Europeans from work obligations.
____ 26. Which of the following began to extend the power of the monarchy throughout France?
a. Eleanor of Aquitaine
c. Hugh Capet
b. Otto the Great
d. King Harold
____ 27. The goal of the First Crusade was to
a. convert Muslims to Christianity.
b. take Jerusalem and the Holy Land away from the Byzantines.
c. take Jerusalem and the Holy Land away from the Muslims.
d. conquer Constantinople.
____ 28. Why were many of the written works created during the Early Middle Ages religious texts?
a. Most people did not enjoy reading epics or romances.
b. Church law required it.
c. Few people outside of the clergy could read and write.
d. Few people were very religious.
____ 29. Some Christians may have disagreed with the ideas of Thomas Aquinas because he
a. was uneducated.
b. wanted to reconcile faith and reason.
c. practiced alchemy despite Church laws forbidding it.
d. did not believe in the existence of God.
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____ 30. What was the end result of the Wars of the Roses?
a. The French drove the English out of their country.
b. The Lancasters won the throne.
c. The plague was spread by soldiers.
d. A Tudor nobleman took the throne, beginning a new era in English history.
____ 31. The Black Death led to
a. massive witch hunts throughout Europe.
b. the collapse of the medieval manor system.
c. greater religious tolerance in Western Europe.
d. the end of the Hundred Years’ War.
____ 32. Which of the following was one effect of the Crusades?
a. Relations between religious groups became more strained.
b. Jews moved to Jerusalem.
c. Trade decreased.
d. The feudal system strengthened.
____ 33. Which of the following founded new towns during the medieval period?
a. feudal lords
c. farmers
b. bishops
d. merchants
____ 34. It was difficult for journeymen to become masters
a. because they often had to return home to run family farms when their fathers died.
b. because adequate training was unavailable.
c. due to some of the guild restrictions.
d. because few could afford to buy from craftspeople.
____ 35. Both Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri wrote in
a. Latin.
c. the vernacular.
b. English.
d. calligraphy.
____ 36. Epic poems differed from religious texts in that they were intended to be
a. entertaining.
c. read in private.
b. studied in universities.
d. accessible only to the clergy.
____ 37. What is another name for the plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s?
a. the Human Scourge
c. the Black Death
b. the Mongol Hordes
d. the Danse Macabre
____ 38. Who won the Hundred Years’ War?
a. the French
c. the Lancasters
b. the English
d. the Muslims
____ 39. What military advantage did the English have over the French in the Hundred Years’ War?
a. better weapons
c. a powerful Navy
b. more soldiers
d. better navigational instruments
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