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Q.1)	Who opposes Henry the II's trial of churchmen in lay courts?

A.	Thomas a` Becket

B.	Girolamo Savonarola

C.	Alfred the Great

D.

Leo X

Q.2)	The Annales :

A.	Are love lyrics written by Catullus about his unfaithful mistress.

B.	Espouses Lucretius' epicurean worldview.

C.	covered 1000 years of the history of Rome, as written by Ennius

D.	Were declared heretical by Gregory I

Q.3)	The Greek tragedian who wrote moral and religious plays focusing on the vice of hubris in which individuals call down nemesis, was:

A.

Aeschylus

B.	Aristarchus

C.

Aristotle

D.	Aristophanes

Q.4)	All of the following are true about the Council of Constance EXCEPT:

A.	It condemns Huss and Wycliffe, who are critical of the the church hierarchy.

B.	It elects Martin V as pope, who reigns from 1417-1431.

C.	It came about as a result of the conciliar movement.

D.	It ended the Great Schism with the idea that the power of the church lies only in the hands of the cardinals and bishops.

Q.5)	Plautus and Terence, who influenced Shakespeare, were:

A.	Greek Tragedians

B.	Roman Comedians

C.	Frankish Demagogues

D.	Morality Playwrights.

Q.6)	Boethius:

A.	wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, a Neoplatonic text.

B.	translated Organon, the "Tool" of Aristotelian logic.

C.	was a Roman scholar who lived from 480 - 525

D.	All of the Above

Q.7)	Which political thinker of the 12th century describes society as a human body whose head is the King?

A.	Pierre Abelard

B.	John of Salisbury

C.	King Valdemar I of Denmark

D.	Thomas Aquinas

Q.8)	All of the following were members of the Ottomans, a Turkish dynasty established around 1300, except:

A.	Suleiman the Magnificent

B.	Mehmet II the Conqueror

C.	Huran al-Rashid

D.	Murad II Kodja

Q.9)	What was the result of the Battle of Mohacs in 1526?

A.	Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, overthrows Odoacer.

B.	Richard the III of York is defeated.

C.	Suleiman the Magnificant captures Serbia and Hungary.

D.	Pepin the Short overthrows the Merovingians.

Q.10)	Which Ordinal number and description of the crusade are incorrectly paired?

A.	3rd - Richard the Lion-hearted of England kills over 2,000 Muslims at acre but cannot regain Jerusalem.

B.	5th - Crusaders raid Zara and sack Constantinople in order to pay Venetians for passage.

C.	7th - This crusade is caled off when Louis IX, who is attempting to conquer Tunisia, dies.

D.	1st - Four feudal states are carved out by the conquest and massacre of Jerusalem by Frankish demagogues.

Q.11)	Which one of these people has nothing to do with the third crusade?

A.	Saladin, Prince of Egypt

B.	Philip II Augustus

C.	Frederick I Barbarossa

D.	Louis IX of France

Q.12)	The First Diet of Speyer :

A.	Results in the Lutheran Creed the Augsburg Confession

B.	Names the Lutherans as "Protestants"

C.	Gives Lutherans freedom to worship

D.	Results in the organization of the Schmalkaldic League

Q.13)	Which Pope allows Johann Tetzel to raise money for St. Peter's Basilica by the sales of indulgences?

A.	Pope Alexander III

B.	Pope Leo X

C.	Pope Innocent III

D.	Pope Boniface VIII

Q.14)	The Edict of Milan:

A.	Grants Calvinists the freedom to worship

B.	Reverses the persecution of the Christians by the previous emperor Diocletian.

C.	Challenges the power of the state and forces emperor Theodosius to do public penance.

D.	Condemned the teaching of monophysitism, which holds that Jesus is divine but not human.

Q.15)	Hugh Capet:

A.	Is forbidden to invade England by Pope Innocent III

B.	Seizes Normandy from King John

C.	Seizes the French title from the Carolingians

D.	All of the above

Q.16)	Gattamelata is an equestrian statue by:

A.

Giotto

B.

Donatello

C.

Leonardo

D.	Michelangelo

Q.17)	Which is associated with the Battle of Crecy ?

A.	During the Hundred Year's War, longbowmen halt the charges of knights, heralding the end of chivalric warfare.EF

B.	Louis the Pious is forced to divide his empire between Charles the Bald, Lothair, and Louis the German.

C.	Edward the Black Prince captures John II Valois and takes him prisoner.

D.	Philip IV the fair destroys the Knights Templar.

Q.18)	Who wrote the first Latin novel The Golden Ass ?

A.

Galen

B.

Ptolemy

C.

Apuleius

D.

Macrobius

Q.19)	Which council condemned Nestorius' teaching that human and divine natures of Jesus make him two persons?

A.	None of the Below

B.	Council of Chalcedon, 451

C.	Council of Nicaea, 325

D.	Council of Ephesus, 431

Q.20)	Who is defeated at Legano?

A.	Frederick I Barbarossa of the Hohenstaufens

B.	The alliance of North Italian Cities called the Lombard League

C.	Emperor Romulus Augustus

D.	Attila of the Huns

Q.21)	The Synod of Whitby partially occured because:

A.	The double monastary of Benedictine monks needed to protect themselves from the Vikings.

B.	St. Columba from Ireland converts the Picts and Augustine of Canterbury converts the Anglo-Saxons.

C.	Latin practices did not allow for individualized rites at Easter, which the Ionans, or Celts, accepted.

D.	The town of Munster had been seized and established as a theocracy called New Zion.

Q.22)	Almagest was a book of:

A.	medicine, written by Galen

B.	geocentric theory, written by Ptolemy

C.	speeches, by Cicero

D.	historical monographs, by Appianus

Q.23)	The Old Babylonian Dynasty disintegrated around 1600 BC after it was attacked by the:

A.

Amorites

B.	Hurrians from Mitanni

C.	Hittites and Kassites

D.	The Sumerians of the Third Dynasty of Ur

Q.24)	During this period in Egypt, the pharaohs' control weakened and the nomarchs fought among themselves for supremacy in a series of civil wars, which led to widespread famine.

A.	Old Kingdom (2700 - 2200 BCE)

B.	First Intermediate Period (2200 - 2050 BCE)

C.	Middle Kingdom (2050 - 1700 BCE)

D.	Second Intermediate Period (1700-1550 BCE)

Q.25)	Cyrus the Great:

A.	Adapted the alphabet to a more usable form.

B.	Conquered the Near East by applying a rule of terror in which rebellious populations were deported.

C.	Led the Persians in an uprising against the Medes.

D.	United the small kingdoms of warriors that made up his eastern Mediterranean homeland.

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