Question 1

The main task of Christian missionaries in England was to

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transfer the people\'s allegiance from their king to God.

Question 2

Although the first three Crusades were political and religious failures, they succeeded in

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stimulating Western trade with the East.

Question 3

The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy was a popular pilgrimage destination, because it contained the

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relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods.

Question 4

The monsters in Beowulf seem to be metaphors for

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fate and the destructive forces of nature.

Question 5

What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?

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barrel vaults

Question 6

Pope Urban II presented the Crusades as

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a Holy War.

Question 7

The Song of Roland describes

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Charlemagne\'s defeat of the Saracen Muslims.

Question 8

Which literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery?

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Beowulf

Question 9

Sutton Hoo\'s purse cover is decorated with

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animal imagery.

Question 10

Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor for

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Christianizing the people of his vast empire.

Question 11

It is evident that the Sutton Hoo burial ceremony was not Christian, because

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it included cremation.

Question 12

Why was courtly love poetry written in the common language of everyday life instead of Latin?

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A greater number of people would be able to enjoy it.

Question 13

Romanesque churches had ambulatories that skirted the nave

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to allow pilgrims to pass through the church without disturbing the monks.

Question 14

In the Song of Roland, Roland\'s fate is brought on by his

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sense of pride.

Question 15

All of the following were motivations for the First Crusade EXCEPT

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creating a homeland for Jews.

Question 16

The Celtic Christian Church differed from Roman Christianity in

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the roles it allowed women to play.

Question 17

The medieval Franks differed from other Germanic tribes in that they

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were Catholic.

Question 18

The space created by Romanesque churches\' barrel vaults had the effect of

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raising churchgoers\' eyes, directing their thoughts toward heaven.

Question 19

Romanesque churches\' portals were of special importance, because they

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defined the boundary between secular and sacred space.

Question 20

Benedictine monks at Cluny introduced

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choral music.

Question 21

It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely over a half century earlier, the city had witnessed

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as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death.

Question 22

Michelangelo\'s Moses has horns due to

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a mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Latin.

Question 23

Why did Lorenzo de\' Medici prefer frottole sung in Italian, not Greek or Latin?

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Italian, he felt, was the most beautiful of languages for music.

Question 24

Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by

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using foreshortening.

Question 25

Why was Michelangelo\'s David not placed on the Florence Cathedral\'s facade as was originally planned?

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It could not be lifted there due to its size.

Question 26

Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo de Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because

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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.

Question 27

The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence from 1418 to 1494, because they

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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.

Question 28

Dufay\'s Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to

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mirror the proportions of Solomon\'s Temple and the Florence Cathedral.

Question 29

All of the following are desired of Baldassare Castiglione\'s l\'uomo universale EXCEPT

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charity to the less fortunate.

Question 30

Ca\' d\'Oro in Venice differs from the Medici palace in Florence in that it prioritizes the

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The celebration of personal wealth and social status

Question 31

The most influential of the Renaissance women patrons was

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Isabella d\'Este

Question 32

Michelangelo\'s Laurentian Library steps create the visual effect of a

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A cascading waterfall

Question 33

Villa La Rotunda is considered by many to be Andrea Palladio\'s masterpiece because its

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its design is perfectly symmetrical

Question 34

In his PietÃ , Michelangelo presents Mary as young and beautiful instead of middle-aged to

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To make her a timeless image of purity and chastity

Question 35

In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the

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Gothic Style

Question 36

Almost all of Madalena Casulana\'s known musical works are

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in the form of the madrigal

Question 37

Michelangelo placed the Separation of Light from Darkness at the far end of the Sistine Chapel over the altar, because it

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To symbolize the viewers\' distance from creation\'s goodness and truth

Question 38

The people were eager to buy the indulgences that Julius II sold to finance the St. Peter\'s project, because they wanted to

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They wanted to shorten their stay in purgatory.

Question 39

In Titian\'s Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by

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The nude woman

Question 40

Many Northerners were predisposed to finding moral implications in decorative art to

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to justify owning it.

Question 41

Why was mid-sixteenth-century Geneva known as \"a paradise for women\"?

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Geneva men who beat their wives were severely punished.

Question 42

Why did many Northern European artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes?

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The market for religious art was diminishing.

Question 43

In his concept of \"predestination,\" John Calvin meant that

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God ordains salvation for certain people at birth

Question 44

In his In Praise of Folly, Erasmus attacks Church officials for

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selling pardons and indulgences

Question 45

The Roman Catholic Church condemned FranÃ§ois Rabelais\'s Gargantua and Pantagruel for

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attacking medieval theology\'s dogmas and sacraments.

Question 46

In retaliation against Protestant simplicity, Roman Catholics increased the elaborateness of their churches to

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make the Protestant churches seem emotionally empty.

Question 47

Michel de Montaigne invented the

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personal essay

Question 48

In both Melancholia I and Adam and Eve, light represents

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inspiration

Question 49

Why did The Nuremberg Chronicle\'s illustrators not concern themselves with depicting the different cities accurately?

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Most readers had not been to those cities.

Question 50

What in Dr. Faustus would become a standard feature of the Elizabethan stage?

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blending of tragic and comedy

Question 51

Henry VIII wrote a tract condemning Martin Luther and his religious reforms to

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earn a \"Defender of the Faith\" title from the pope.

Question 52

English families agreed to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587

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in exchange for land.

Question 53

Why did Mary I order mass executions of Protestants when she assumed the throne in 1553?

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Like her mother, she was a devout Catholic.

Question 54

During Elizabeth\'s reign, living in London became desirable primarily because of

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higher wages

Question 55

Which of the following is NOT one of William Byrd\'s reasons for people to learn to sing?

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makes people more pleasant

Question 56

Hans Holbein painted Thomas More with beard stubble and sagging skin because he wanted to

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To emphasize More\'s tireless service to the King.

Question 57

Italian sonnets differ from English sonnets in

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rhyme scheme

Question 58

Why did drama become so popular during the Elizabethan period?

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The middle and upper classes had more leisure time.

Question 59

Publication of what work directly inspired sacred music during the Elizabethan age?

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The First Book of Common Prayer

Question 60

In the skull of The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein uses

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anamorphic projection.

Question 61

in Hans Holbein\'s The Ambassadors, the skull between the two ambassadors represents

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the fate that awaits us all.

Question 62

Christopher Marlowe\'s Dr. Faustus turns to black magic out of

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dissatisfaction with traditional scholarship.

Question 63

England sought to establish a colonial foothold in the Americas to

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counter the powerful Hispanic Catholic presence there.

Question 64

Hamlet is the most desired role and the most often performed character in the history of the English stage because of

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His openness and complexities.

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