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Chapter Review

This activity contains 35 questions.

	The infant mortality rate during the Middle Ages was between   20 and 40 percent. 10 and 30 percent. 30 and 50 percent. 50 and 70 percent.

	Because merchants were so clearly the engine of the urban economy, small shopkeepers and artisans identified more with them than with the aloof royal lords and bishops who were the chartered town's original masters.    True  False

	The liberal arts program consisted of all of the following EXCEPT   astronomy. drama. grammar. mathematical arts.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The first European scholar to gain a large student audience was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Lords had the right to subject their tenants to exactions known as .

	Christian theology insisted that men were superior to women.    True  False

	Nunneries were filled with women from   other countries. all classes. the peasantry. the upper classes.

	Kings were attracted to towns for all of the following reasons EXCEPT   that money was available in great quantities. that towns had the human, financial, and technological resources to empower kings. that they were a ready source of educated citizens. that towns required constant supervision.

	By the thirteenth century, the Church's monopoly on higher education was stronger than ever.    True  False

	By the late Middle Ages, status within the nobility was principally based on skill in combat.    True  False

	Childhood was not understood as a distinct and special phase from adulthood.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The most famous college in Paris was the , founded for theological students in 1257.

	In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, only about 5 percent of the population lived in an urban setting.    True  False

	Germanic law   considered women chattels. recognized the economic freedom of women. invested women with less-inclusive rights than Roman law. restricted women from pressing charges against men for bodily injury.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The new upper class was a marriage between those wealthy by birth and those who made their fortunes in long-distance trade.

	Before the "renaissance" of the fifteenth century, many Greek and Arabic texts were not available to Western scholars.    True  False

	Wergild is   the Germanic civil code. a dowry paid from groom to bride before marriage. a nunnery. a compensatory fine for injury to another person.

	St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica   attempted to encompass all theological knowledge. proves the impossibility of proving God's existence. directly criticized the Scholastic approach to learning. criticized the Humanist view of the creation of the world.

	The University of Paris was the first important university to be chartered.    True  False

	Merchants   all of these answers formed their own protective associations. travelled together in armed caravans and convoys, buying goods and products as cheaply as possible at the source, and selling them for all they could get in Western ports. agitated for the termination of tolls and tariffs on the surrounding countryside.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. is a method of study based on logic and dialectic.

	The poetry of courtly love depicted those who succumbed to illicit carnal love as reaping at least as much suffering as joy.    True  False

	Serfs   lived by the produce of their own labor and organization. all of these answers were free to choose their spouses within the local village, although they needed the lord's permission to marry a wife or husband from another village. had their own dwellings and modest strips of land.

	Infanticide continued to be practiced in the early Middle Ages.    True  False

	Between the ages of ten and fifteen, girls were apprenticed and gained trade skills much as did boys.    True  False

	Which of the following is NOT true of the secular clergy?   They formed a vast hierarchy. They lived according to a special ascetic rule in cloisters separated from the world. The high prelates were drawn almost exclusively from the nobility. Because of their relative poverty, priests often took second jobs as teachers, artisans, or farmers.

	Abelard's academic career ended after he   seduced and impregnated the niece of a Church official. offered a revised interpretation of the Holy Trinity. stressed personal penance over penance administered by a priest. promoted Aristotelian learning.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The clergy was made up of the orders of monks who lived according to a special ascetic rule.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A certificate to teach from a medieval university was known as a .

	By the thirteenth century, agricultural advances meant only a few days of labor a year were required for peasants.    True  False

	Suppose you are a noble in the High Middle Ages and are asked to defend feudal society. What would your arguments be? What if you were a serf and were asked to defend feudal society? In either role, would you find it easier to criticize feudal society, or to defend it? Explain.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Why was there such an unprecedented surge in anti-Jewish sentiment between the late twelfth and early fourteenth centuries? Why was the Christian Church so hostile to Jews at home and to Muslims abroad?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	What led to the revival of trade and the growth of towns in the twelfth century? What political and social conditions were essential for a revival of trade? How did towns change medieval society?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	How would you assess the position of women within each of the classes of medieval society? How were their roles and functions similar to, and different from, those of women in previous ages and those of women in modern times?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Based on the evidence presented in this section, summarize the arguments for and against medieval parents having a strong emotional attachment to their children. Which arguments do you find more persuasive, and why? Can you think of some kind of evidence that you would find absolutely convincing, one way or the other?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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