The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 7: The Struggle to Bring Order

True or False Quiz

1
In the Germanic tradition, law was created and administered by kings.
A)True
B)False
2
Germanic law assigned more value to child-bearing women than to post-menopausal women.
A)True
B)False
3
Theodore of Tarsus opposed the papacy's attempt to enhance its influence in Britain.
A)True
B)False
4
The Venerable Bede, like many scholars in classical and medieval times, did not distinguish between factual information and legends or rumors.
A)True
B)False
5
An Anglo-Saxon king required the approval of the Witan, a circle of wise men, in order to succeed to the throne.
A)True
B)False
6
Shire reeves, later called sheriffs, were accountable to earls, not the monarchy.
A)True
B)False
7
When Alfred and Guthrum divided England, Guthrum agreed to convert to Christianity.
A)True
B)False
8
Alfred encouraged learning among his people by translating literature into Old English.
A)True
B)False
9
The missi dominici that Charlemagne sent out to make his subjects conform to the law each consisted of a bishop and a nobleman.
A)True
B)False
10
Charlemagne used his relationship with the Islamic caliph, Harun Al Raschid, to overthrow the Byzantine Empress Irene.
A)True
B)False
11
To promote Christianity, Charlemagne founded schools, encouraged an educated clergy, and assembled a canon of books.
A)True
B)False
12
The reformers who established the Cluniac order wanted to free the monastery from the control of the papacy.
A)True
B)False
13
The different languages in which Charles the Bald and Louis the German pledged the Strasbourg Oaths indicated divisions within Charlemagne's empire that would increase with time.
A)True
B)False
14
The Carolingian empire was vulnerable to invaders in part because of the mismanagement of Louis the Pious's sons.
A)True
B)False
15
The Scandinavians became skilled seamen in part because they needed to supplement their agricultural produce.
A)True
B)False
16
The Vikings sailed all the way to North America, where they encountered natives they called Skraelings, who soon converted to Christianity and established peaceful trade relations with the Europeans.
A)True
B)False
17
One of the effects of invasions of the tenth and eleventh centuries was the separation of the church from local, secular life, as priests and bishops sought protection from Rome.
A)True
B)False
18
Along with goods and labor, serfs owed their lords military service.
A)True
B)False
19
The power of lords over their vassals increased as fiefs became hereditary in the ninth century.
A)True
B)False
20
Charlemagne married several times and kept concubines, but later, the church encouraged monogamy.
A)True
B)False
21
Peasant families rarely worked their own strips of land. Instead, they spent each day collectively tending to their lords' fields.
A)True
B)False
22
In the feudal system, a nobleman could be both a lord to someone below him and a vassal to someone above him.
A)True
B)False
23
By the end of the tenth century, economic, political and religious institutions across Europe had severely deteriorated in large part because of the Viking, Muslim and Magyar invasions.
A)True
B)False
24
By the eleventh century, Viking raids came to an end because a united front of European kingdoms crushed the Vikings' homelands.
A)True
B)False
Sherman: The West in the World, Fourth Edition
Glencoe Online Learning CenterSocial Studies HomeProduct InfoSite MapContact Us

The McGraw-Hill CompaniesGlencoe

Please read our Terms of Use and Privacy Notice before you explore our Web site. To report a technical problem with this Web site, please contact the Web Producer.