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1. Above all, the Abbasid caliphate promised to provide
an enlarged empire.
religious equality.
improved educational opportunities.
more religious leadership.
2.Abbasid bureaucracy was directed by a sort of prime minister, or
emir
kadir
caliph
vizer
3. The Muslim army under the Abbasids was
mainly Arab mercenaries.
international and well-respected.
mainly Persian slaves.
no match for Byzantine soldiers.
4. All of the following are considered original inventions of the Muslims except
papermaking.
fictional literature.
the university.
the decimal system.
5. As a master teacher, Muslim scholars held in particularly high regard
Plato
Aristotle
Aeschylus.
Socrates
6. The Qur'an prohibited the lifelike representation of
the human figure
the horse
any animal
Allah
7. Muslim visual art can best be described as
explicitly representational.
primitive in technique.
geometrically or floral based.
similar to Christian art.
8. In the Middle East, the Mongols invaded an empire already broken apart by the
Iranians
Seljuk Turks.
Arabs
Romans
9. Sufism is the Islamic version of the intellectual phenomenon known in the West as
communism
mysticism
indiviudalism
feminism
10. The world's various trading cities during the Abbasid caliphate, such as Córdoba, Madrid, and Baghdad, would best be described as
crime-ridden.
cosmopolitan
culturally lacking.
religiously divided
11. The cultural, economic and political center of Muslim Spain was the city of Barcelona.
True
False
12. The most famous example of Muslim-inspired architecture is the Taj Mahal.
True
False
13. The capture of Baghdad by the Phonecians finally ended the Abbasid Caliphate.
True
False
14. The Islamic world reached as far as Spain to the east by 1500.
True
False
15. The Sharia is the sacred law based on the Qur'an.
True
False
16. European slavery declined after 1000 C.E. due to
expenses associated with keeping slaves.
the Crusades into the Middle East.
disapproval by the Church.
changes in climate that made keeping slaves unnecessary.
17. The only true wealth for the nobility during the Middle Ages was
a plentiful supply of gold.
the hereditary rank they held.
that which they earned through trade.
land ownership.
18. Which of the following contributed to the improvement of medieval agriculture?
the steel-tipped plow
chemical fertilizers
the padded horse collar
turnip animal fodder
19. The Benedictine monks of the Middle Ages were known for
leaving their monasteries to witness to the poor in foreign lands.
being members of the largest religious order in all of Europe.
competing with the Jesuits for territory.
their skill at winemaking, through which they made large amounts of money.
20. Before the 12 century, monks and nuns were usually taken from the
younger offspring of the aristocracy.
large families produced by the peasantry.
scandal-ridden members of the nobility.
already diminutive middle class.
21. The great scandal of the Fourth Crusade was that it
lost Jerusalem to the Muslims.
resulted in the occupation of the Christian city of Constantinople by Crusaders.
led to a war with the Greeks.
deteriorated into a quest for wealth and power.
22.The university founded at Bologna was celebrated mainly as a school of
law
philosophy
medicine
theology
23. The study of Classical pagan authors in Western Europe came mainly through the work done by
Frederick Barbarossa.
the Seljuk Turks.
Jews in France.
Muslims in Spain.
24. The large cathedrals were paid for
by monarchs.
through taxation.
by the Vatican.
through donations of time and labor.
25. The main reason the literature of Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer is significant is because of which of the following
Latin was no longer the preferred language of the educated.
They represent the educated who were underappreciated in their own time.
Education in Latin was clearly reinforced in their writings.
None of the options are correct.
26. Most of the work on Medieval European manors was performed by serf.
True
False
27. A master was a person to which some form of feudal service was owed.
True
False
28. The patron saint of France is Joan of Triumph.
True
False
29. In his Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas attempted to prove God's existence through Classical arguments.
True
False
30. The greatest Christian teacher of the 12 centuries was Dante.
True
False