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World History Chapter 8 KJHS

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Anglo-Saxon king who managed to turn back the Viking invaders.

a)

Alfred the Great

b)

Harold Godwinson

c)

Henry II

d)

William the Conqueror

2.

Claimed the English crown and invaded England with a Norman army.

a)

Alfred the Great

b)

Harold Godwinson

c)

Henry II

d)

William the Conqueror

3.

William’s rival who also claimed the throne.

a)

Alfred the Great

b)

Harold Godwinson

c)

Henry II

d)

William the Conqueror

4.

Added to his holdings by marrying Eleanor of Aquitaine from France

a)

Alfred the Great

b)

Harold Godwinson

c)

Henry II

d)

William the Conqueror

5.

Ruled from 1199 to 1216 lost Normandy and all his lands in northern France to the French.

a)

Hugh Capet

b)

John Softsword

c)

Louis IX

d)

Philip II

6.

An undistinguished duke from the middle of France, who succeeded Louis the Sluggard.

a)

Hugh Capet

b)

John Softsword

c)

Louis IX

d)

Philip II

7.

One of the most powerful Capetians kings.

a)

Hugh Capet

b)

John Softsword

c)

Louis IX

d)

Philip II

8.

Ruled from 1226 to 1270, was pious and saintly, was known as the ideal king.

a)

Hugh Capet

b)

John Softsword

c)

Louis IX

d)

Philip II

9.

Ruled France from 1285 to 1314, was involved in a quarrel with the pope.

a)

Jan Hus

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

John Wycliffe

d)

Philip IV

10.

Preached that Jesus Christ, not the pope, was the true head of the Church.

a)

Jan Hus

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

John Wycliffe

d)

Philip IV

11.

A professor in Bohemia, taught that the authority of the Bible was higher than that of the pope.

a)

Jan Hus

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

John Wycliffe

d)

Philip IV

12.

She felt moved by God to rescue France from its English conquerors.

a)

Jan Hus

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

John Wycliffe

d)

Philip IV

13.

Wrote The Divine Comedy.

a)

Christine de Pisan

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Thomas Aquinas

14.

Wrote The Canterbury Tales.

a)

Christine de Pisan

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Thomas Aquinas

15.

Wrote The Book of The City of Ladies.

a)

Christine de Pisan

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Thomas Aquinas

16.

Wrote Summa Theologicae.

a)

Christine de Pisan

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Thomas Aquinas

17.

A “holy war,” to gain control of the Holy Land.

a)

Battle of Hastings

b)

Children’s Crusade

c)

Crusade

d)

Fourth Crusade

18.

Failed to capture Jerusalem instead they ended up looting the city of Constantinople.

a)

Battle of Hastings

b)

Children’s Crusade

c)

Crusade

d)

Fourth Crusade

19.

Took place in two different movements in 1212.

a)

Battle of Hastings

b)

Children’s Crusade

c)

Crusade

d)

Fourth Crusade

20.

The battle that changed the course of English history.

a)

Battle of Hastings

b)

Children’s Crusade

c)

Crusade

d)

Fourth Crusade

21.

The war that Edward III launched for the French throne.

a)

Battle of Crécy

b)

Battle of Orléans

c)

Hundred Years’ War

d)

Reconquista

22.

English army, including longbow men, beat a French army three times its size.

a)

Battle of Crécy

b)

Battle of Orléans

c)

Hundred Years’ War

d)

Reconquista

23.

Joan led the French to a hard-fought victory over the English.

a)

Battle of Crécy

b)

Battle of Orléans

c)

Hundred Years’ War

d)

Reconquista

24.

A long effort by the Spanish to drive the Muslims out of Spain.

a)

Battle of Crécy

b)

Battle of Orléans

c)

Hundred Years’ War

d)

Reconquista

25.

He issued a call for a Crusade.

a)

Pope Boniface VIII

b)

Pope Clement V

c)

Pope Martin V

d)

Pope Urban II

26.

He attempted to enforce papal authority on kings.

a)

Pope Boniface VIII

b)

Pope Clement V

c)

Pope Martin V

d)

Pope Urban II

27.

He moved the Catholic capital from Rome to the city of Avignon in France.

a)

Pope Boniface VIII

b)

Pope Clement V

c)

Pope Martin V

d)

Pope Urban II

28.

He ended the Great Schism but left the papacy greatly weakened.

a)

Pope Boniface VIII

b)

Pope Clement V

c)

Pope Martin V

d)

Pope Urban II

29.

They were the two popes during the Great Schism.

a)

Pope Boniface VIII

b)

Pope Clement VII

c)

Pope Martin V

d)

Pope Urban VI

30.

People whose religious beliefs differed from the teachings of the Church.

a)

Burghers

b)

Guild

c)

Heretics

d)

Scholastics

31.

An organization of individuals in the same business working to improve the conditions of its members.

a)

Burghers

b)

Guild

c)

Heretics

d)

Scholastics

32.

A merchant-class town dwellers.

a)

Burghers

b)

Guild

c)

Heretics

d)

Scholastics

33.

Scholars who met at the great universities.

a)

Burghers

b)

Guild

c)

Heretics

d)

Scholastics

34.

A group of loyal people, usually 12 neighbors of the accused, who answered a royal judge’s questions.

a)

Bailiffs

b)

Jews

c)

Jury

d)

Scholastics

35.

Presided over the king’s courts and collected the king’s taxes.

a)

Bailiffs

b)

Jews

c)

Jury

d)

Scholastics

36.

Blamed for bringing on the plague.

a)

Bailiffs

b)

Jews

c)

Jury

d)

Scholastics

37.

Approximately one-third of the population of Europe died of this deadly disease.

a)

Black Death

b)

Black Plague

c)

Bubonic Death

d)

Bubonic Plague

38.

Another name for the bubonic plague, got the name because of the purplish or blackish spots it produced on the skin.

a)

Black Death

b)

Black Plague

c)

Bubonic Death

d)

Bubonic Plague

39.

The rulings of England’s royal judges that formed a unified body of law.

a)

Common law

b)

House of Commons

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Parliament

40.

The most celebrated document in English history.

a)

Common law

b)

House of Commons

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Parliament

41.

A legislative group.

a)

Common law

b)

House of Commons

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Parliament

42.

An assembly of knights and burgesses.

a)

Capetian Dynasty

b)

House of Commons

c)

House of Lords

d)

Parliament

43.

An assembly of nobles and bishops.

a)

Capetian Dynasty

b)

House of Commons

c)

House of Lords

d)

Parliament

44.

French kings that ruled France from 987 to 1328.

a)

Capetian Dynasty

b)

House of Commons

c)

House of Lords

d)

Parliament

45.

Europe’s most powerful monarchs who led the Third Crusade to recapture Jerusalem.

a)

Frederick I

b)

Hugh Capet

c)

Philip II

d)

Richard I

46.

A new age of religious feeling.

a)

Age of Faith

b)

Papal Curia

c)

Simony

47.

When Bishops sold positions in the Church.

a)

Age of Faith

b)

Papal Curia

c)

Simony

48.

The pope’s group of advisers.

a)

Age of Faith

b)

Papal Curia

c)

Simony

49.

Cathedrals thrust upward as if reaching toward heaven.

a)

Gothic

b)

Great Schism

c)

Inquisition

50.

A court held by the Church to suppress heresy.

a)

Gothic

b)

Great Schism

c)

Inquisition

51.

The split in the Church because the French pope lived in Avignon, while the Italian pope lived in Rome.

a)

Gothic

b)

Great Schism

c)

Inquisition

52.

The goods imported from Southwest Asia.

a)

Cloth

b)

Fruits

c)

Spices

d)

Tobacco

53.

Resting for a year.

a)

Commercial Revolution

b)

Fallow

c)

Letters of credit

d)

Three-field system

54.

Farmers could grow crops on two-thirds of their land each year.

a)

Commercial Revolution

b)

Fallow

c)

Letters of credit

d)

Three-field system

55.

Expansion of trade and business.

a)

Commercial Revolution

b)

Fallow

c)

Letters of credit

d)

Three-field system

56.

Eliminated the need to carry large amounts of cash and made trading easier.

a)

Commercial Revolution

b)

Fallow

c)

Letters of credit

d)

Three-field system

57.

Europe’s largest city.

a)

Longbow

b)

Paris

c)

University

d)

Vernacular

58.

Originally referred to a group of scholars meeting wherever they could.

a)

Longbow

b)

Paris

c)

University

d)

Vernacular

59.

The everyday language of their homeland.

a)

Longbow

b)

Paris

c)

University

d)

Vernacular

60.

Type of bow that is tall and powerful, it changed warfare.

a)

Longbow

b)

Paris

c)

University

d)

Vernacular