Church and Culture

Check All That Apply: What where the two major types of architecture that cathedrals and monasteries were build in during the Middle Ages?

• Romanesque

• Byzantesque

• Gothic

• Victorian

What was the name for the stone arches attached to cathedral walls that supported the ceiling and allowed for huge windows?

• Flying buttresses

• Flying Arches

• Barrel Vaults

• Vaulting Arches

Which of the following BEST describes scholasticism?

• Ideas arrived on through faith did not have to contradict ideas of reason

• Ideas of God do not need logic and only need faith

• Its followers attempted to prove God did NOT exist using logic and reason

• Its followers wanted to show that the Christian God is the only God by proving the Muslims God does not exist using logic and reason

Who was scholasticism greatest thinker?

• Thomas Aquinas

• Bernard of Clairvaux

• Pope Urban II

• Hildegard of Bingen

In this book, the author attempted to use the ideas and logic of Aristotle with the ideas of the Church. Starting with the question "Does God Exist?", providing both sides of the argument, and then drawing conclusions.

• Sainta Auiqina

• Summa Theologica

• Physica

• Domesday Book

What is term for the language that person speaks every day?

• Viticulture

• Vernacular

• Scholasticism

• Pagan

Check All That Apply: What were two types of vernacular poetry written in the Middle Ages?

• Troubadour

• Heroic Epic

• Haiku

• Love Sonnet

Which of the following is NOT true about Cistercian Monks?

• Wanted to live a simple and spiritual life

• Worshiped, prayed, and farmed the land

• Lived in total isolation and never interacted with the outside world

• Founded by monks who were unhappy with the massive wealth of the church

What is one major DIFFERENCE between a traditional monk and a friar?

• Friar do not worship the same Christian God as monks

• Friars stay away from all outsiders and never interact with the world

• Friars would go out and bring Christianity to the people by leaving their monasteries

• Monks could own property and wealth, but Friars could not

Which of the following BEST describes the Inquisition of the Middle Ages?

• A court set up by the Pope where people were tried and punished for heresy

• A system set up by the Pope to force all people to believe in Eastern Orthodox Christianity

• A court set up Henry II where people would go first to a grand jury and then a trial jury

• A system where friars would go out and spread the word of God and try to convert as many people as they could