Church History Midterm Review Part 1 - 2024

Which groups of Friars were chosen to serve as Inquisitors due to their loyalty to the pope and their intelligence?

• Dominicans and Jesuits

• Dominicans and Franciscans

• Franciscans and Jesuits

• Franciscans and Society of Jesus

What was one of the great contributions monasteries in the west gave during the early Medieval period?

• fighting against injustices of the Church such as Lay Investiture and Simony

• stopping the sale of indulgences

• copying the great writings of secular and religious leaders from earlier centruries

• the monasteries were experiencing a corrupt period during this time and didn't contribute anything during the early Medieval period.

Which Saint wrote the rule for monks which promoted moderation in all things? He wrote it at his famous monastery, Monte Cassino.

• St. Ignatius Loyola

• St. Dominic

• St. Scholastica

• St. Benedict

Who founded a religion, but didn't think he started a new religion, in the Arabian Peninsula?

• Moses

• Muhammad

• Jesus

• Abraham

What do the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths have in common?

• worship from the same book

• nothing in common

• monotheistic

• they are all Griffindors

What book do Muslims use as their sacred scripture?

• Apocrypha

• Torah

• Koran

• Deuterocanical books

Why did St. Scholastica start a monastery?

• she wanted to help her brother, who's monastery was having difficulties

• she wished to educated the monks and nuns to help read and understand prayers and scriptures

• to help spread new techniques in farming and agriculture

• to help monks and nuns return to a spirit of poverty and simplicity

What is considered to be the main difference between Islam and Christianity?

• While Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet, they do not believe he was divine and that his humanity and divinity are united to the truth

• Islamics do not believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus to Mary

• Islamics do not accept writings of the Old Testament

• Islamics accept the apocrypha in their bible

Why did people find the Islamic faith worthy of converting?

• their lives were threatened if they didn't convert

• their was so much of a similarity between the two that it just made sense to embrace something new

• Islam wasn't forced on people but they were offered special protection, tax benefits, and better jobs if they converted

• Mohammad was a great speaker and had a way of welcoming people to the faith unlike anything experienced at the time.

When was Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III?

• Christmas Mass

• New Years Eve

• Easter Sunday

• Christmas Eve