Quiz Week 7 – Flashcards
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Question 1: Why does Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights tell her husband a story each night?
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Q1 Answer:To prevent execution the next morning
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Question 2: Why did the Spanish Jews welcome the Muslim invasion?
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Q2 Answer:The Visigoth rulers had persecuted them
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Question 3:Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives?
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Q3 Answer: To provide protective charity
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Question 4: Why did Mohammad leave Mecca for Medina in 622?
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Q4 Answer: Mecca's leadership was displeased with him
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Question 5: Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins?
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Q5 Answer: It housed images of their gods
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Question 6: Why was Islam able to spread so quickly after Muhammad's death?
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Q6 Answer: A long war had exhausted the Byzantine and the Persian empires
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Question 7: Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders?
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Q7 Answer: It had natural springs
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Question 8: Why does an author use a framing tale?
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Q8 Answer: To unite different stories
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Question 9: Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)?
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Q9 Answer: They write intense metaphorical poetry
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Question 10: Why do Muslims decorate their mosques without figurative images?
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Q10 Answer: Mohammad warned that image makers would face punishment at Judgment
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Question 11: Why did Hildegard of Bingen believe her plainchant brought heaven and earth together?
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A11 Answer: Her extremes of register created soaring arches
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Question 12: In the Song of Roland, why are the Saracens able to ambush Roland's army?
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Q12 Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon
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Question 13: What was the main task of Christian missionaries in England?
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Q13 Answer: To transfer the people's allegiance from their king to God
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Question 14: What medieval cult is connected to the courtly love literature?
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Q14 Answer: The Cult of the Virgin
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Question 15: Why was the Book of Kells moved from Iona off the Scottish coast to Kells in Ireland?
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Q15 Answer: To protect it from Vikings threatening the Scottish coast
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Question 16: What leads to Roland's death in the Song of Roland?
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Q16 Answer: His sense of pride
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Question 17: What pilgrimage destination was most difficult to reach?
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Q17 Answer: Jerusalem
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Question 18: What effect was the space created by the Romanesque churches' barrel vaults designed to produce for the pilgrims?
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Q18 Answer: Raise their eyes and direct their thoughts toward heaven
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Question 19: Why was the wergeld (life-price) of a thane higher than that of a thrall?
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Q19 Answer: Thralls were slaves
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Question 20: Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden?
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Q20 Answer: To kill the monster Grendel
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Question 21: Why is the Jesse tree a common stained-glass motif?
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Q21 Answer: It establishes Mary's royal lineage from King David
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Question 22: On whose relationship was the popular poem the Roman de la Rose based?
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Q22 Answer: Peter Abelard and Heloise
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Question 23: Why was Jean, duke of Berry in the fifteenth century, the wealthiest man in Europe?
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Q23 Answer: His subjects paid the highest taxes in all of Europe
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Question 24: Why was Saint Denis not completed during Suger's lifetime?
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Q24 Answer: Louis VII left for the Crusades and withdrew funding
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Question 25: What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile?
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Q25 Answer: Christian faith and classical reason
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Question 26: What musical instrument became popular in the cathedrals?
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Q26 Answer: The organ
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Question 27: Who designed the Abbey of Saint-Denis's renovation and thus began the Gothic style?
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Q27 Answer: Abbot Suger
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Question 28: Why did Pisano sculpt his Mary, Sister of Moses, which sits on the Siena Cathedral, to lean forward?
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Q28 Answer: So the viewers below could see her face
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Question 29: According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what exploration was a driving force in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
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Q29 Answer: The meaning of being human
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Question 30: On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching?
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Q30 Answer: Socrates
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Question 31: As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, whose 1804 Imperial Decree on Burials created the idea of a cemetery as a kind of landscape garden?
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Q31 Answer: Emperor Napoleon of France
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Question 32: Why was Dante Alighieri exiled from Florence?
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Q32 Answer: For failing to mend a political schism
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Question 33: Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory?
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Q33 Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason
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Question 34: According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what was a positive effect of the bubonic plague?
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Q34 Answer: Per capita wealth increased
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Question 35: Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic?
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Q35 Answer: It has blue eyes
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Question 36: In what area of Italy are Siena and Florence located?
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Q36 Answer: Tuscany
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Question 37: What is an advantage of the buon fresco (paint on wet plaster) technique?
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Q37 Answer: The paint becomes part of the wall
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Question 38: What was the Florentine bankers' most important invention?
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Q38 Answer: Europe's first single currency
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Question 39: On what trade was Florence's wealth based?
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Q39 Answer: Textiles
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Question 40: In the Arena Chapel frescoes, what is Giotto the first artist since antiquity to depict?
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Q40 Answer: People from behind
