Hum Quiz Assist
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Question 1 2 out of 2 points Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad? Answer Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God Question 2 2 out of 2 points Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders? Answer Selected Answer: It had natural springs Correct Answer: It had natural springs Question 3 2 out of 2 points Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins? Answer Selected Answer: It housed images of their gods
Transcript of Hum Quiz Assist
Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad?Answer
Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God
Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders?Answer
Selected Answer: It had natural springs
Correct Answer: It had natural springs
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins?Answer
Selected Answer: It housed images of their gods
Correct Answer: It housed images of their gods
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
What structure inspired the design of most mosques?Answer
Selected Answer:
Muhammad's house in Medina
Correct Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Why do Muslims believe that the Qur'an cannot be translated?Answer
Selected Answer: It is the direct word of God
Correct Answer: It is the direct word of God
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
What does the word Islam mean?Answer
Selected Answer: Submission
Correct Answer: Submission
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives?Answer
Selected Answer: To provide protective charity
Correct Answer: To provide protective charity
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year?Answer
Selected Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Correct Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged?Answer
Selected Answer: Longest to shortest
Correct Answer: Longest to shortest
Question 10
0 out of 2 points
Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)?Answer
Selected Answer: They dress in coarse woolen garments
Correct Answer: They write intense metaphorical poetry
Question 11
0 out of 2 points
Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance?Answer
Selected Answer: To remind visitors that they would enter the dark (die)
Correct Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall?Answer
Selected Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement
Correct Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement
Question 13
0 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people?Answer
Selected Answer: So they could read aloud and sing in church
Correct Answer: So more would enter the priesthood
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?Answer
Selected Answer: Barrel vaults
Correct Answer: Barrel vaults
Question 15
0 out of 2 points
Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden?Answer
Selected Answer:
To sacrifice himself for the greater good
Correct Answer: To kill the monster Grendel
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
In the Song of Roland, why are the Saracens able to ambush Roland's army?Answer
Selected Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon
Correct Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
What in the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy made it a popular pilgrimage destination?Answer
Selected Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods
Correct Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery?Answer
Selected Answer: Beowulf
Correct Answer: Beowulf
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
Why in 1066 did William of Normandy invade England?Answer
Selected Answer:
To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king
Correct Answer: To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin?Answer
Selected Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it
Correct Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it
Question 21
0 out of 2 points
Why was Bruges, in Flanders, such a desirable place to live in the late Middle Ages?Answer
Selected Answer: It was a self-governing city-state independent of a king's control
Correct Answer: Its people earned the highest wages in northern Europe
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile?Answer
Selected Answer: Christian faith and classical reason
Correct Answer:
Christian faith and classical reason
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following innovations was key in Gothic architecture?Answer
Selected Answer: Rib vaulting
Correct Answer: Rib vaulting
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery?Answer
Selected Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Correct Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Question 25
0 out of 2 points
Why in 1179 did the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris start admitting nonclerical students?Answer
Selected Answer: The Church withdrew funding of it
Correct Answer: A papal decree ordered their admittance
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
Why did the Gothic cathedrals include flying buttresses?Answer
Selected Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults
Correct Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house?Answer
Selected Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Correct Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")?Answer
Selected Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Correct Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching?Answer
Selected Answer: Socrates
Correct Answer: Socrates
Question 30
2 out of 2 points
Why was light vital to Saint Denis's design?Answer
Selected Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God
Correct Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
In what language did Chaucer write his Tales?Answer
Selected Answer: Middle English
Correct Answer: Middle English
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague?Answer
Selected Answer: God's wrath against human sins
Correct Answer: God's wrath against human sins
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what was a positive effect of the bubonic plague?Answer
Selected Answer: Per capita wealth increased
Correct Answer: Per capita wealth increased
Question 34
0 out of 2 points
Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory?Answer
Selected Answer: Dante considered Virgil the greatest of the pagan poets
Correct Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason
Question 35
0 out of 2 points
Why were England and France fighting in the Hundred Years' War?Answer
Selected Answer: France wanted to claim Normandy from the English
Correct Answer: England wanted to claim Normandy from the French
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
Why did Chaucer complete only 22 of his planned 120 Canterbury Tales?Answer
Selected Answer: He died
Correct Answer: He died
Question 37
0 out of 2 points
Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic?Answer
Selected Answer: It has a flat back
Correct Answer: It has blue eyes
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena?Answer
Selected Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Correct Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Question 39
0 out of 2 points
According to legend, who founded Siena?Answer
Selected Answer: The Roman emperor Augustus
Correct Answer: Remus's sons, Senius and Aschius
Question 40
0 out of 2 points
How does Duccio's Maestrá break from Byzantine portrayals of Mary and the Christ child?Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
Mary's body has substance, and Christ resembles an actual baby
Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad?Answer
Selected Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God
Correct Answer: To deliver messages from the one and only God
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders?Answer
Selected Answer: It had natural springs
Correct Answer: It had natural springs
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins?Answer
Selected Answer: It housed images of their gods
Correct Answer: It housed images of their gods
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
What structure inspired the design of most mosques?Answer
Selected Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina
Correct Answer: Muhammad's house in Medina
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Why do Muslims believe that the Qur'an cannot be translated?Answer
Selected Answer: It is the direct word of God
Correct Answer: It is the direct word of God
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
What does the word Islam mean?Answer
Selected Answer: Submission
Correct Answer: Submission
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives?Answer
Selected Answer: To provide protective charity
Correct Answer: To provide protective charity
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year?Answer
Selected Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Correct Answer: The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged?Answer
Selected Answer: Longest to shortest
Correct Answer: Longest to shortest
Question 10
0 out of 2 points
Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)?Answer
Selected Answer: They dress in coarse woolen garments
Correct Answer: They write intense metaphorical poetry
Question 11
0 out of 2 points
Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance?Answer
Selected Answer:
To remind visitors that they would enter the dark (die)
Correct Answer: To define the boundary between secular and sacred space
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall?Answer
Selected Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement
Correct Answer: Its functional, orderly arrangement
Question 13
0 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people?Answer
Selected Answer: So they could read aloud and sing in church
Correct Answer: So more would enter the priesthood
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?Answer
Selected Answer: Barrel vaults
Correct Answer: Barrel vaults
Question 15
0 out of 2 points
Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden?Answer
Selected Answer: To sacrifice himself for the greater good
Correct Answer: To kill the monster Grendel
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
In the Song of Roland, why are the Saracens able to ambush Roland's army?Answer
Selected Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon
Correct Answer: Roland is betrayed by Ganelon
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
What in the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy made it a popular pilgrimage destination?Answer
Selected Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods
Correct Answer: The relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery?Answer
Selected Answer: Beowulf
Correct Answer: Beowulf
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
Why in 1066 did William of Normandy invade England?Answer
Selected Answer:
To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king
Correct Answer: To make good Edward's promise that William would be England's next king
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin?Answer
Selected Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it
Correct Answer: More people would be able to enjoy it
Question 21
0 out of 2 points
Why was Bruges, in Flanders, such a desirable place to live in the late Middle Ages?Answer
Selected Answer: It was a self-governing city-state independent of a king's control
Correct Answer: Its people earned the highest wages in northern Europe
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile?Answer
Selected Answer: Christian faith and classical reason
Correct Answer: Christian faith and classical reason
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following innovations was key in Gothic architecture?Answer
Selected Answer: Rib vaulting
Correct Answer: Rib vaulting
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery?Answer
Selected Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Correct Answer: He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Question 25
0 out of 2 points
Why in 1179 did the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris start admitting nonclerical students?Answer
Selected Answer: The Church withdrew funding of it
Correct Answer: A papal decree ordered their admittance
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
Why did the Gothic cathedrals include flying buttresses?Answer
Selected Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults
Correct Answer: To help spread out the weight of the vaults
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house?Answer
Selected Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Correct Answer: The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")?Answer
Selected Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Correct Answer: They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching?Answer
Selected Answer: Socrates
Correct Answer:
Socrates
Question 30
2 out of 2 points
Why was light vital to Saint Denis's design?Answer
Selected Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God
Correct Answer: It is the physical and material manifestation of God
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
In what language did Chaucer write his Tales?Answer
Selected Answer: Middle English
Correct Answer: Middle English
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague?Answer
Selected Answer: God's wrath against human sins
Correct Answer: God's wrath against human sins
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what was a positive effect of the bubonic plague?Answer
Selected Answer: Per capita wealth increased
Correct Answer: Per capita wealth increased
Question 34
0 out of 2 points
Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory?Answer
Selected Answer: Dante considered Virgil the greatest of the pagan poets
Correct Answer: Virgil represented the embodiment of reason
Question 35
0 out of 2 points
Why were England and France fighting in the Hundred Years' War?Answer
Selected Answer: France wanted to claim Normandy from the English
Correct Answer: England wanted to claim Normandy from the French
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
Why did Chaucer complete only 22 of his planned 120 Canterbury Tales?Answer
Selected Answer: He died
Correct Answer: He died
Question 37
0 out of 2 points
Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic?Answer
Selected Answer: It has a flat back
Correct Answer: It has blue eyes
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena?Answer
Selected Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Correct Answer: Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Question 39
0 out of 2 points
According to legend, who founded Siena?Answer
Selected Answer: The Roman emperor Augustus
Correct Answer: Remus's sons, Senius and Aschius
Question 40
0 out of 2 points
How does Duccio's Maestrá break from Byzantine portrayals of Mary and the Christ child?Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: Mary's body has substance, and Christ resembles an actual baby
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Question 1 2 out of 2 points
Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To provide protective charity
Correct Answer:
To provide protective charity
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Why in 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visit Mohammad?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To deliver messages from the one and only God
Correct Answer:
To deliver messages from the one and only God
Question 3
false
2 out of 2 points
What does the word Islam mean?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Submission
Correct Answer:
Submission
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Correct Answer:
The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
What does the Arabic word masjid mean?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Place of prostration
Correct Answer:
Place of prostration
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
How are the surahs in the Qur'an arranged?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Longest to shortest
Correct Answer:
Longest to shortest
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders?
Answer
Selected Answer:
It had natural springs
Correct Answer:
It had natural springs
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
What is the hadith?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Mohammad's sayings
Correct Answer:
Mohammad's sayings
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Why did Mali's Mansa Moussa cause the value of gold in Egypt to fall in 1334?
Answer
Selected Answer:
He distributed so much gold to the poor
Correct Answer:
He distributed so much gold to the poor
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
What structure inspired the design of most mosques?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Muhammad's house in Medina
Correct Answer:
Muhammad's house in Medina
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Why was the wergeld (life-price) of a thane higher than that of a thrall?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Thralls were slaves
Correct Answer:
Thralls were slaves
Question 12
0 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne insist upon a Christian education for his people?
Answer
Selected Answer:
So they could read aloud and sing in church
Correct Answer:
So more would enter the priesthood
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To define the boundary between secular and sacred space
Correct Answer:
To define the boundary between secular and sacred space
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
What advantages did feudalism offer the fiefs?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Use of land and protection
Correct Answer:
Use of land and protection
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
Why does Beowulf travel from Denmark to Sweden?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To kill the monster Grendel
Correct Answer:
To kill the monster Grendel
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following was not a motivation for the First Crusade?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To free the enslaved Jews
Correct Answer:
To free the enslaved Jews
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
Why did Charlemagne admire the monastery of St. Gall?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Its functional, orderly arrangement
Correct Answer:
Its functional, orderly arrangement
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
Why was the courtly love poetry written in the common language instead of Latin?
Answer
Selected Answer:
More people would be able to enjoy it
Correct Answer:
More people would be able to enjoy it
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
What literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Beowulf
Correct Answer:
Beowulf
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
Why did Hildegard of Bingen believe her plainchant brought heaven and earth together?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Her extremes of register created soaring arches
Correct Answer:
Her extremes of register created soaring arches
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
What from Chartres Cathedral survived the devastating fire of 1194?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Mary's tunic and a window portraying her
Correct Answer:
Mary's tunic and a window portraying her
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Why were Santa Croce, the Franciscan church, and Santa Marie Novella, the Dominican church, located at opposite ends of Florence?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To emphasize the rivalry between the two orders
Correct Answer:
To emphasize the rivalry between the two orders
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
Why was "Gothic" as applied to France's new architecture originally a derogatory term?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The Goths had destroyed classical traditions
Correct Answer:
The Goths had destroyed classical traditions
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Why was Abelard castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery?
Answer
Selected Answer:
He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Correct Answer:
He fell in love with and impregnated a student
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
Why were so many of the cathedrals called Notre Dame ("Our Lady")?
Answer
Selected Answer:
They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Correct Answer:
They were dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
Why was Louis IX so beloved by the French people?
Answer
Selected Answer:
He abolished serfdom and private wars and reformed the tax structure
Correct Answer:
He abolished serfdom and private wars and reformed the tax structure
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
What relic did Louis IX purchase on Crusade in Constantinople to display at Sainte-Chapelle?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Christ's crown of thorns
Correct Answer:
Christ's crown of thorns
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Who created the first crèche?
Answer
Selected Answer:
St. Francis of Assisi
Correct Answer:
St. Francis of Assisi
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
Why did Pisano sculpt his Mary, Sister of Moses, which sits on the Siena Cathedral, to lean forward?
Answer
Selected Answer:
So the viewers below could see her face
Correct Answer:
So the viewers below could see her face
Question 30
0 out of 2 points
What two subjects did Scholasticism seek to reconcile?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Salvation through faith or good works
Correct Answer:
Christian faith and classical reason
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Correct Answer:
Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
What was the main charge for which Joan of Arc was tried and executed?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Cross-dressing
Correct Answer:
Cross-dressing
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
Why does Virgil guide Dante through Hell and Purgatory?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Virgil represented the embodiment of reason
Correct Answer:
Virgil represented the embodiment of reason
Question 34
2 out of 2 points
Why did Christine de Pizan become the first female professional writer in European history?
Answer
Selected Answer:
A widow, she needed to support her family
Correct Answer:
A widow, she needed to support her family
Question 35
2 out of 2 points
What literary form did Petrarch perfect?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Italian sonnet
Correct Answer:
Italian sonnet
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
Why were Siena's guilds able to rise to such levels of power?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Siena was an important manufacturing city
Correct Answer:
Siena was an important manufacturing city
Question 37
2 out of 2 points
Why was Dante Alighieri exiled from Florence?
Answer
Selected Answer:
For failing to mend a political schism
Correct Answer:
For failing to mend a political schism
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Why is the Virgin Mary's crown in Simone Martini's Maestrá significant?
Answer
Selected Answer:
It establishes her as both a sacred and a secular queen
Correct Answer:
It establishes her as both a sacred and a secular queen
Question 39
2 out of 2 points
What is an advantage of the buon fresco (paint on wet plaster) technique?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The paint becomes part of the wall
Correct Answer:
The paint becomes part of the wall
Question 40
2 out of 2 points
Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague?
Answer
Selected Answer:
God's wrath against human sins
Correct Answer:
God's wrath against human sins
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