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WH Spring Assessment Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is the primary religion in India

a)

Buddhism

b)

Daoism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Christianity

2.

Siddhartha Gautama founded what religious philosophy?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Confucianism

c)

Daoism

d)

Hinduism

3.

Which Jewish group was known for advocating overthrowing the Romans

a)

Pharisees

b)

Essenes

c)

Sadducees

d)

Zealots

4.

What did the Edict of Milan proclaim?

a)

Christianity was now the official religion of Rome

b)

The Eastern and Western Roman empires would be separate

c)

Christians could be legally persecuted

d)

Christianity would be officially tolerated

5.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the fall of Rome?

a)

Barbarian invasions

b)

Political corruption

c)

Civil war

d)

Jewish revolts

6.

Missi dominici were important civil servants in which empire?

a)

Carolingian

b)

Roman

c)

Italian

d)

French

7.

Which Byzantine ruler converted to Christianity on his deathbed?

a)

Constantine

b)

Justinian

c)

Octavian

d)

Cleopatra

8.

Before the trade routes were established, Arabs were primarily

a)

enslaved

b)

hunter-gatherers

c)

nomads

d)

missionaries

9.

The Shari'ah is a

a)

collection of Muhammad's saying that were not included in the Quran

b)

an elaborate burial ritual

c)

a code that provides believers with practical laws to regulate their daily lives

d)

a map to a holy shrine in Mecca

10.

Which of the following is not part of the 5 Pillars of Islam?

a)

Pilgrimage

b)

Charity

c)

Prayer

d)

Missionary work

11.

What is a minaret?

a)

A tower

b)

A temple

c)

A style of prayer

d)

A weapon

12.

This is written in the everyday language in a particular place

a)

biblical literature

b)

vernacular literature

c)

philosophical literature

d)

complex litarature

13.

Which missionary order had a leading role in the Inquisition?

a)

Dominicans

b)

Cistercians

c)

Benedictines

d)

Franciscans

14.

The first Crusade was ordered by which pope?

a)

Urban II

b)

Pius XI

c)

Benedict XVI

d)

Gregory V

15.

The appointment of church officials by secular rulers is called

a)

Lay investiture

b)

Sacraments

c)

Interdictments

d)

Relics

16.

Which of these is not an example of a sacrament?

a)

Communion

b)

Baptisms

c)

Weddings

d)

Childbirth

17.

____________ was/were responsible for the death of more than a third of Europe's population

a)

The Crusades

b)

The Bubonic Plague

c)

The War of the Roses

d)

Thomas Jentsch

18.

Who conquered England in 1066?

a)

William of Normandy

b)

King Philip II

c)

Saint Joan of Arc

d)

Emperor Otto II

19.

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were killed for what reason?

a)

Committing treason against Rome

b)

Trying to implement land reforms to help the poor

c)

Assisting Julius Caesar's rise to the dictatorship

d)

Opposing the Second Triumvirate

20.

This man was responsible for creating the Carolingian Empire

a)

Octavian

b)

William the Conqueror

c)

Charlemagne

d)

Justinian

21.

Muslims are expected to complete a pilgrimage to which holy city at least once in their lifetimes?

a)

Jerusalem

b)

Mecca

c)

Rome

d)

Angkor Wat

22.

The House of Wisdom was located in _______________, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate

a)

Medina

b)

Damascus

c)

Jerusalem

d)

Baghdad

23.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for going on a crusade in the Middle Ages?

a)

To show your religious conviction

b)

To lessen your time in purgatory

c)

To reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims

d)

To help end the War of the Roses

24.

The Hundred Years' War was fought between which kingdoms/nations/cities?

a)

The Holy Roman Empire and the Kievan Rus

b)

Aragon and Castile

c)

France and England

d)

Genoa and Venice

25.

The cities of Rome and Avignon were central to what religious conflict?

a)

Hundred Years' War

b)

The Second Crusade

c)

The Inquisition

d)

Split Papacy

26.

The Sui Dynasty reunified which nation?

a)

China

b)

India

c)

Japan

d)

Korea

27.

Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty ruled over which section of the Mongol Empire?

a)

Khanate of the Golden Horde

b)

Ilkhanate

c)

Chagatai Khanate

d)

Khanate of the Great Khan

28.

Samurai warriors followed which code of ethics?

a)

Chivalry

b)

Bushido

c)

Heresy

d)

Zen

29.

Which of the following is the native religion of Japan?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Hinduism

c)

Christianity

d)

Shinto

30.

Which Japanese leader created the Kamakura Shogunate?

a)

Minamoto Yoritomo

b)

Shotoku Taishi

c)

Hayao Miyazaki

d)

Akira Toriyama

31.

Angkor Wat is a temple complex located in what modern day nation?

a)

Thailand

b)

Cambodia

c)

Myanmar

d)

Vietnam

32.

This was the most powerful person in feudal Japan

a)

Emperor

b)

Daimyo

c)

Shogun

d)

Samurai

33.

Theravada Buddhists believe

a)

that self-knowledge is the best way to achieve nirvana

b)

that the Buddha is a god and should be worshipped

c)

in many of the Hindu gods but not all of them

d)

in spirits called kami that live in nature

34.

Mahayana Buddhists believe

a)

that self-knowledge is the best way to achieve nirvana

b)

that the Buddha is a god and should be worshipped

c)

in many of the Hindu gods but not all of them

d)

in spirits called kami that live in nature

35.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of Japan's isolation from the rest of the world?

a)

They were never conquered by the Mongols

b)

Buddhism arrived in Japan shortly after it came to China

c)

They traded less with mainland Asia

d)

The Japanese were forced to be more self-sufficient

36.

Which of the following is true of religious life under Mongol rule?

a)

The Mongols imposed their shamanist beliefs on the people they conquered

b)

Conquered peoples were given religious freedom

c)

The Mongols eliminated all forms of religious devotion in their land

d)

Christianity became the dominant global religion

37.

Fear was a major factor in ___________ military tactics

a)

Roman

b)

Mongol

c)

Chinese

d)

Crusader

38.

Feudal systems developed in which two places?

a)

Japan, Korea

b)

India, the Middle East

c)

Europe, Japan

d)

Egypt, Indonesia

39.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Muslim architecture?

a)

Minarets

b)

Domes

c)

Muqarnas arches

d)

Flying buttresses

40.

This man is considered the Great Prophet and founder of Islam

a)

Jesus

b)

Abraham

c)

Muhammad

d)

Siddhartha Gautama

41.

Which of the following is the Islamic holy text?

a)

The Bible

b)

The Quran

c)

The Torah

d)

The Bhagavad Ghita

42.

The Sunni and Shia divide is over the issue of

a)

who should have succeeded Muhammad as leader of the Muslims after his death

b)

vernacular literature

c)

where to move the capital of the Roman Empire after the fall of Rome

d)

whether or not Siddhartha Gautama was a god

43.

Zakat, Shahadah, and Hajj are examples of

a)

Caliphs

b)

Pillars of Islam

c)

Holy texts

d)

Islamic holidays

44.

Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid are examples of what?

a)

Caliphates

b)

Islamic holidays

c)

Mosques

d)

Types of prayers

45.

This person was a French hero during the Hundred Years' War and was later burned at the stake

a)

Joan of Arc

b)

William of Normandy

c)

Henry Tudor

d)

Henry Jarman

46.

Emperor Nero blamed the fire that destroyed much of Rome on what group?

a)

Jews

b)

Christians

c)

Muslims

d)

Huns

47.

Which of the following people was NOT part of the Second Triumvirate?

a)

Octavian

b)

Lepidus

c)

Marcus Antonius

d)

Cleopatra

48.

Western Rome fell in what year?

a)

476

b)

1066

c)

1453

d)

1258

49.

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the end of the Roman Republic?

a)

Wars between Sulla and Marius

b)

Caesar's appointment as dictator

c)

The rise of the Seljuk Turks

d)

The Second Triumvirate

50.

Which of the following religions was created first?

a)

Judaism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Buddhism

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