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1
The famines of the early fourteenth century stemmed from all but which of the following causes?
A)Many peasants were forced to eke out a living on poor-quality lands that barely provided them with enough food to survive.
B)Peasants continued to employ the same ineffective agricultural techniques and tools that their ancestors had used a thousand years before.
C)A series of summers marked by torrential rainfall ruined many farms.
D)Peasants slaughtered much of their cattle, depriving themselves of an important source of fertilizer.
2
The plague came to Europe by way of
A)ships from the Middle East carrying rats.
B)bad air.
C)cold winters and wet summers.
D)leeches.
3
The revolts of the fourteenth century resulted in
A)a stable and balanced social order.
B)marked improvements for eastern serfs and peasants, and continuing drudgery for western ones.
C)punishment of the corrupt nobility by the king.
D)gradual improvements for peasants and urban workers.
4
After the popes moved to Avignon, they never again
A)returned to Rome.
B)expanded their administration.
C)allowed secular concerns to distract them from their spiritual duties.
D)tried to tax the French kings.
5
Critics of the papacy's initial move to Avignon thought that
A)the church had retreated from secular leadership.
B)the move had contributed to the disasters plaguing Europe.
C)the pope should always be of Italian origin.
D)the French popes were the Anti-Christ.
6
The primary goal of the conciliarists was to
A)expand the popes' power.
B)reunite the Greek Orthodox and Roman Orthodox churches.
C)limit the popes' power.
D)replace the pope with a council of cardinals.
7
John Wycliffe argued that
A)the Bible confirmed the authority of the pope.
B)there was no evidence for papal supremacy in the Bible.
C)the clergy should enhance its spiritual power with material wealth.
D)the church was ignoring its duty of venerating the saints.
8
Which of the following was not a significant cause of the Hundred Years' War?
A)Philip VI forfeited Edward III's claim to lands in southern France.
B)Philip VI interfered with the lucrative trade between Flanders and England.
C)Edward III claimed France as part of his royal domain.
D)Philip VI claimed England as part of his royal domain.
9
The Hundred Years' War showed clear evidence that the future of warfare was
A)the cavalry.
B)heavy artillery.
C)armored knights.
D)the infantry.
10
In 1415 the English king Henry V
A)invaded the French duchy of Burgundy.
B)forced the French king to disown the Dauphin in favor of Henry's son.
C)brought the Hundred Years' War to a close by renouncing all English claims to French lands.
D)dethroned the French king and took direct control of the French kingdom.
11
Edward the Black Prince was ultimately killed by
A)a mounted knight.
B)an arrow shot from a longbow.
C)an infantryman's pike.
D)disease.
12
In the Divine Comedy, Dante is guided through hell by
A)Beatrice.
B)his contemporaries.
C)the pope.
D)Virgil, the Roman poet.
13
How did the ten principal characters of Boccaccio's Decameron respond to the spread of the plague?
A)They engaged in philosophical discussions about the moral ramifications of the disease.
B)They journey together on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
C)They donned simple clothing and set to work ministering to their suffering neighbors.
D)They retreated to a villa where they told each other ribald stories.
14
The Mongol Empire of the thirteenth century
A)disrupted trade between the East and the West.
B)brutally exploited and oppressed subject peoples.
C)extended from Korea to Moscow.
D)was destroyed by the ravages of the army of Genghis Khan.
15
The Polos traveled to the far reaches of the Mongol Empire primarily
A)to convert the Mongols to Christianity.
B)to prepare an armed invasion of China.
C)as emissaries of the Ottoman Empire.
D)on trading journeys.
16
The Byzantine emperor in power when the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople was
A)Constantine XI Palaeologus.
B)Mehmed II.
C)Suleiman II.
D)Istanbul.
17
Ivan III struggled to reestablish
A)the Byzantine Empire.
B)Christianity.
C)the Mongol Khanate.
D)the Duchy of Moscow.
18
Following the Hundred Years' War, changes in warfare led to a change in the social order. A new military-political system took hold in which old promises of military service were replaced with cash payments. What is the name of the system?
A)free companies
B)scutage
C)feudalism
D)bastard feudalism
19
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
A)was a contest for power between the English monarchy and the followers of John Wycliffe.
B)reestablished the traditional power of England's old nobility.
C)ended in 1485 when Richard III vanquished his opponents at the battle of Bosworth Field.
D)pitted the Lancaster family against the York family.
20
The English philosopher William of Ockham believed that
A)the scholastic enterprise could successfully reach its goal.
B)universals had a connection with reality.
C)reason could prove the existence of God.
D)simple explanations were preferable to complex ones.
21
The painter Jan van Eyck (1370?-1440?)
A)was Hungarian
B)used oil paint
C)rejected realism
D)rejected symbolism





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