Ch2 Lesson 4 Culture and the Church

In contrast to Romanesque architecture, churches built in the Gothic style had ______.

• small windows

  
  

• thick pillars

  
  

• flying buttresses

• 
  

  rounded ceilings

Stained-glass windows in Gothic cathedrals presented scenes ______.

• from the Bible

  
  

• of the ruler’s coronation ceremony

  
  

• of everyday life

• from famous artworks

Where were two of the first medieval universities located?

• 
  

  Oxford and Rome

  
  

• Paris and Bologna

• Cambridge and Madrid

  
  

• Bruges and London

  
  

Which of the following medieval university subjects is the study of religion and God?

• philosophy

• logic

  
  

• 
  theology

  
  

• 
  

  astronomy

  
  

The followers of scholasticism wanted to show that faith could be supported by reason.

• false

• true

What was the official language of the Church and the university?

• French

• English

• Latin

• Vernacular

What was the usual subject of troubadour poetry?

• the rivalry between kings and popes

  
  

• the military conflicts of the Crusades

  
  

• 
  

  the development of medieval guilds 

• the love of a knight for a noble lady​

  
  

Many monks founded new religious orders in the Middle Ages because they thought that the Catholic Church ______.

• was too devoted to spiritual concerns

• had become too wealthy and involved in politics

  
  

• was too much like the Eastern Orthodox Church

  
  

• should not start holy wars with Muslims

  
  

In order to stop heresy, in 1233 the Catholic Church ______.

• set up the Inquisition

  
  

• ordered the Crusades

  
  

• 
  

  founded several universities for religious studies

  
  

• established the Dominicans

  
  

Many of the Jews who were driven out of England, France, and Central Europe during the Middle Ages settled in northern Africa, especially Egypt.

• true

• false