APPROVED QUESTIONS AND ANSWER KEY!!
5.1 What common technique used to make jewelry employs gold with colorful enamel and
semi-precious stones? correct answers cloisonné
5.1 What aspect of Anglo-Saxon traditions is demonstrated most prominently in Beowulf?
correct answers the rigid hierarchical society
5.1 What distinctive literary feature, common to Old English literature, is used throughout
Beowulf? correct answers kennings
5.1 Early illuminated manuscript pages in England and Ireland are considered syncretic
because they correct answers combine pagan and Christian styles.
5.1 Why did Christian missionaries in England create illuminated manuscripts? correct
answers to give the spiritual world material splendor
5.2 What was the primary job of Alcuin of York in Charlemagne's court at Aachen? correct
answers to establish a curriculum that would promote literacy
5.2 Which term describes music that is repeated for each stanza of a poem? correct answers
strophic
5.2 A monastic lifestyle was most commonly afforded to correct answers aristocratic women.
5.2 What caused the feudal system to be cemented in France, the western Carolingian
Empire? correct answers the Norman invasions of Northern Europe
5.2 What does the Domesday Book demonstrate about feudal society in medieval Europe?
correct answers the extraordinary inequities between rich and poor
5.3 Along the pilgrimage routes, sacred sites housed relics, the bones, clothing, and other
possessions of correct answers Christian saints and martyrs.
5.3 What motivated Romanesque architects to use barrel vaults as ceilings for cathedrals?
correct answers to protect a building from fire
5.3 What semicircular space beneath the portal arch of Romanesque cathedrals was filled
with sculptural relief? correct answers the tympanum
5.3 What distinguishes choral music at the Abbey of Cluny from Gregorian chants? correct
answers two or more lines of melody
5.4 How did the Crusades help solve the problems created by the feudal primogeniture
system in Europe? correct answers organized disenfranchised members of the aristocracy
5.4 What encouraged young Christian men to join the Crusades? correct answers the promise
of adventure and money