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Chapter 12 Medieval Europe
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The first Frankish king to become a Catholic Christian was
a. Odoacer.
b. Clovis.
c. Alexei the Good.
d. Charles Martel.
e. Leopoldus.
2. In an effort to avoid the potential mayhem of the Germanic system of personal revenge for the
punishment of crimes, an alternative system arose that made use of a fine called
a. wergeld.
b. wingard.
c. wodoms.
d. wargast.
e. arbeiter.
3. Which of the following combinations most accurately depicts the customary Germanic method of guilt
determination?
a. Compurgation had its basis in the principle of divine intervention, and the ordeal involved
the use of oath swearing.
b. The ordeal had its basis in the principle of divine intervention, and compurgation involved
the use of oath swearing.
c. Compurgation permitted the innocent to be damaged, and the ordeal required the accused
to be doubted.
d. both a and c
e. none of the above
4. The administrative unit of the Christian church headed by a bishop was known as the
a. legature.
b. bishopric or diocese.
c. archdiocese.
d. province.
e. none of the above
5. The fundamental form of monastic life in the early Western Christian church was established by
a. Saint Benedict.
b. Saint Anthony.
c. Saint Mark.
d. Saint Simeon.
e. Saint Methodius.
6. Charlemagne's oversight representatives, the "messengers of the lord king," were known as the
a. mark graf.
b. chandiar.
c. missi dominici.
d. scriptoria.
e. flamboria.
7. Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire
a. sparked a limited intellectual renewal.
b. encompassed much of western and central Europe.
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c. depended upon the allegiance of nobles to a ruler who would use force if necessary to
maintain that allegiance.
d. was, by necessity, decentralized in its administration.
e. all of the above
What was the significance of Pope Leo III's coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day, 800?
a. Charlemagne became the theoretical equal to the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
b. A foundation had been laid for the papal claim to supremacy over secular rulers.
c. A new European civilization had been established.
d. both a and b
e. a, b and c
Who were the Asian people, defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld, who became Christians and went on to
establish the Kingdom of Hungary?
a. the Muslims
b. the Magyars
c. the Vikings
d. the Slavs
e. the Sibers
The personal element of feudalism was most directly symbolized in the ceremonies involving
a. serfdom.
b. benefice.
c. fief.
d. vassalage.
e. right.
The piece of land that provided the feudal vassal's economic support was the
a. fief.
b. homestead.
c. homage.
d. vassalage.
e. right.
Which of the following enabled medieval monarchs to rely less on their vassals?
a. The growth of cities.
b. The revival of commerce.
c. The emergence of a money economy.
d. both b and c
e. a, b and c
As a result of the Norman conquest of 1066
a. the king of France became a vassal of the king of England.
b. the duke of Normandy became the king of England, while he remained a vassal of the king
of France.
c. France came to dominate English affairs.
d. England controlled the French government.
e. both a and b
The Magna Carta
a. was signed, very reluctantly, by King John of England.
b. was a feudal contract between a king and his vassals that limited the monarch's powers.
c. served to develop an individual's right to protection against capricious legal judgments.
d. both a and b
e. a, b and c
By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the English Parliament
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a. provided the foundation for the absolute rule of the monarch.
b. enabled the barons and church lords to establish themselves in the House of Commons.
c. began a system of power sharing between the monarch and various groups within the
society.
d. enabled the knights and burgesses to establish themselves in the House of Lords.
e. both b an c
France's first parliament, begun under Philip IV, was the
a. chambre des comptes.
b. parlement.
c. Estates-General.
d. Reichstagen.
e. none of the above
Philip II of France
a. participated in the Third Crusade, but did not do so for very long.
b. was defeated by Otto I and Henry II and forced to abdicate.
c. gained most of the mainland territories of the Sicilian kings.
d. both a and b
e. both b and c
The Saxon king who created a new "Roman Empire" that included Germany and Italy was
a. Wilhelm II.
b. Henry IV.
c. Otto I.
d. Frederick II.
e. Philip IV.
Central issue(s) complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were
a. the difficulty of simultaneously controlling the Italian and German areas of the empire.
b. emperors' determination to control France and Kievan Russia.
c. the church's increasing ability to keep clergy from serving the emperors.
d. both a and b
e. both a and c
All of the following were true about the development of Russia except
a. Kievan Russia collapsed in the mid-twelfth century.
b. Eastern Orthodoxy provided a major foundation for early Russian unity.
c. Mongol dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russia development.
d. Mongol recognition of the hegemony of Alexander Nevsky provided the foundation for
future Russian domination from Moscow.
e. Russia adopted its Christianity from the Byzantine Empire.
The Slavs
a. divided into seven specific groups during the Middle Ages.
b. became Roman Catholic, with the exception of the Russians, Turks and Magyars.
c. were divided into two religious groups, with most southern and eastern Slavs becoming
Orthodox and most northern and western Slavs becoming Roman Catholic.
d. both a and b
e. both b and c
High Middle Ages agriculture
a. involved extensive swamp draining and land clearance.
b. increased its output by increasing the amount of land used for farming.
c. improved its methods through the use of iron tools.
d. moved from the two-field to the three-field system.
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e. all of the above
A series of six annual fairs, which became the largest western European commercial marketplace for the
exchange of goods between northern and southern Europe and the East, was devised by the Counts of
a. London.
b. Venice.
c. Flanders.
d. Champagne.
e. Italy.
It can be said that urban medieval life was
a. dirty and polluted.
b. set in an environment of challenge and hardship.
c. crowded.
d. often a broadening experience for women.
e. all of the above
As a result of the Fourth Crusade
a. Richard the Lionhearted obtained Christian pilgrimage rights to Jerusalem.
b. a diminished Byzantine Empire was almost destroyed by crusaders who captured, and
temporarily retained, Constantinople.
c. Frederick Barbarossa achieved great land victories.
d. persecution of European Jews was ended.
e. all of the above
All of the following are true about scholasticism except
a. it is a term used to depict the philosophical and theological system of medieval institutions
of learning.
b. it attempted to prove the unity of faith and reason.
c. it was preoccupied with establishing the concurrence between Christian and Aristotelian
thought.
d. Saint Thomas Aquinas, after writing his Summa Theologica, became a Muslim.
e. the movement peaked in the thirteenth century.
Which of the following is an accurate depiction of the Crusades?
a. The Crusaders exhibited very mixed motives for their participation.
b. They gave the Byzantine ruler much more than he desired in the Fourth Crusade.
c. They provided combative young European knights with an outlet for their bellicose
behavior and a simultaneous opportunity for European rulers to restore some domestic
tranquility.
d. They failed to achieve their primary objective of assuring Western Christian control over
the Holy Land.
e. all of the above