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The Middle Ages

Quiz Created By: Purvi Jalan




  1. What is a tithe?



    A) Payment of 10% of one’s income to the Church
    B) Feudal lords who received land in return for military service and loyalty
    C) Code of conduct for knights
    D) Remission of time in purgatory for prayers and payments to the Church



  2. How was the Black Death transported?



    A) Through cows
    B) Through fish
    C) Through rats
    D) Through sheep



  3. By what was the Roman Empire replaced?



    A) The Holy Roman Empire
    B) The Carolingian Dynasty
    C) The Merovingian Dynasty
    D) The Byzantium Empire



  4. What two faiths did the Church split into in 1054?



    A) The Roman Catholic religion and Christianity
    B) The Roman Catholic religion and the Eastern Orthodox religion
    C) The religion of Islam and the Eastern Orthodox religion
    D) The Church did not split



  5. Who developed the code that the monks had to abide by?



    A) Pope Urban II
    B) Justinian the Great
    C) St. Benedict
    D) St. Patrick



  6. What is feudalism?



    A) Fighting between two groups of people
    B) The social and legal organization of Medieval Europe
    C) The economical organization of Medieval Europe
    D) The political aspect of the Middle Ages



  7. What started the Hundred Years War between the English and French?



    A) A quarrel over the throne of France
    B) A quarrel over the throne of England
    C) The English attacked the French
    D) The king of France wanted to marry the king of England’s daughter



  8. What were the Viking boats called?



    A) Triremes
    B) Longboats
    C) Canoes
    D) Vassals



  9. What caused the collapse of the Moorish government?



    A) Fighting amongst the different groups of moors
    B) Spain attacked them
    C) The leader of the Moors was assassinated
    D) The Black Death



  10. Whose conversion to Christianity caused the faith to spread throughout Western Europe?



    A) Charlemagne
    B) Constantine
    C) King Clovis
    D) Justinian