Topic 1 Lesson 6: Lerning, Literature, Education, and Arts of the Middle Ages

What was a significant factor in the blossoming of education in Europe during the High Middle Ages?

• The decline of the Byzantine Empire

• The invention of the printing press

• The fall of the Roman Empire

• Increased prosperity and contact with other cultures

What method did Christian scholars develop to reconcile reason with faith?

• Scholasticism

• Humanism

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

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Which famous scholastic wrote 'Summa theologica'?

• Christine de Pisan

• Dante Alighieri

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Thomas Aquinas

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What was one of the key features of Gothic architecture?

• Domes

• Flying buttresses

• Pillars

• Arches

Which epic poem is a French literary work from the Middle Ages?

• Beowulf

• Song of Roland

• Divine Comedy

• Canterbury Tales

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What was the language of scholars and churchmen in medieval Europe?

• French

• English

• Greek

• Latin

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Which civilization influenced much of the literature, learning, and arts of Europe during the Middle Ages?

• Egyptian

• Persian

• Roman

• Byzantine

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What was the Bayeux Tapestry an illustration of?

• The Norman Conquest of England

• The Crusades

• The Black Death

• The Hundred Years' War

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How did Europeans become aware of Greek thinking?

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How were Gothic cathedrals different from Romanesque churches?

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