Chapter 12 Quiz B with Explanations

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. Which branch of the roman trivium was not emphasized by clerical teachers in European monasteries and cathedral schools?

Grammar correct incorrect

Arithmetic correct incorrect

Logic correct incorrect

Rhetoric correct incorrect

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. In what subject did the schools at Montpellier and Salerno specialize?

Medicine correct incorrect

Law correct incorrect

Theology correct incorrect

Rhetoric correct incorrect

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. Where in Europe was the first university recognized by Pope Innocent III in 1215?

Rome correct incorrect

Paris correct incorrect

Salerno correct incorrect

London correct incorrect

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. What led to the growing use of vernacular languages in Western Europe from the eleventh century onward?

The decline in the use of Latin correct incorrect

Changes in literary styles correct incorrect

The growth in national identities correct incorrect

The needs of business and government correct incorrect

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. Which author combined themes of Christian theology with elements found in courtly love poetry in his fourteenth-century Divine Comedy?

Chrétien de Troyes correct incorrect

Roger Bacon correct incorrect

Dante Alighieri correct incorrect

Peter Abelard correct incorrect

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. Institutions for theological and legal studies that emerged in the tenth-century Islamic world were called

hadith. correct incorrect

sharia. correct incorrect

khanaqa. correct incorrect

madrasas. correct incorrect

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. Which form of Islam emerged in the ninth century to offer an alternative to the more official forms espoused by the orthodox schools of law and practice?

Hadith correct incorrect

Sufism correct incorrect

Persian Islam correct incorrect

Sunnism correct incorrect

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. What was al-Ghazali's intellectual contribution to Islamic theology in the twelfth century?

His ideas provided a synthesis between Sunni orthodoxy and Sufism. correct incorrect

He developed a new, highly conservative school of law in Seljuk Baghdad. correct incorrect

He compiled an influential encyclopedia of hadith with commentaries. correct incorrect

He argued, based on the Qur'an, for the supremacy of scholars over rulers. correct incorrect

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. The language of Islamic theology and law was

Persian. correct incorrect

Arabic. correct incorrect

Greek. correct incorrect

Turkish. correct incorrect

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. In what major way did education in the Islamic world differ from education in Latin Christendom from the ninth to fourteenth-centuries?

It reached a broader range of society. correct incorrect

It was relegated to religious topics only. correct incorrect

It relied more on the state for resources. correct incorrect

It contributed more to a fractured sense of identity. correct incorrect

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. What acted as major centers of Sanskrit learning in India after the third century?

Brahmans' homes correct incorrect

Stupas correct incorrect

Royal courts correct incorrect

Village schools correct incorrect

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. What caused the decline of Sanskrit cultural influence in Southeast Asia from the tenth century onward?

Conquests by Turkic Muslims incorporated the region into Islamic culture. correct incorrect

The decline of Sanskrit culture in India was mirrored in Southeast Asia. correct incorrect

Sanskrit cultural decline was linked with the decline of royal patronage of temples. correct incorrect

Kings began to base their power on regional identities rather than a complex one. correct incorrect

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. The Chola kings began to emphasize what cultural identity by the tenth century?

Sanskrit correct incorrect

Khmer correct incorrect

Kushan correct incorrect

Tamil correct incorrect

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. What role did Sufis play in India during the rule of the Delhi Sultanate?

They were instrumental in the spread of Islam in the region. correct incorrect

They led to popular resistance against the rule of the Turkic elite. correct incorrect

They forged close bonds with both Buddhist and Jain monastic traditions. correct incorrect

They stifled the introduction of traditional Islam by the ulama. correct incorrect

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. In the period from 900 to 1300, how was Chinese education different from that of the Islamic or Christian worlds?

It was more centered more on religious studies. correct incorrect

It was available to a much more narrow social group. correct incorrect

It was more centered on the state and its institutions. correct incorrect

It was centered on the home rather than the school or university. correct incorrect

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. What was a major criticism of the Chinese government's civil service exam system?

It was too heavily based on Neo-Confucian ideology. correct incorrect

It did not address the moral character of the candidate. correct incorrect

It allowed too much free thinking. correct incorrect

It took too many years to prepare for. correct incorrect

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. The mass production of books in China after the eighth century was due to the development of

wood block printing. correct incorrect

movable type printing. correct incorrect

government scribal centers. correct incorrect

paper. correct incorrect

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. From a historian's perspective, what was especially significant about the Pillow Book and the Tale of Genji, both written during the Heian period?

They were the first books printed in Japan. correct incorrect

They gave insight into the lives of common people. correct incorrect

They were written in Japanese by aristocratic women. correct incorrect

They were banned by the conservative Buddhist government. correct incorrect

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. Who created the earliest written script in Mesoamerica?

The Maya correct incorrect

The Aztecs correct incorrect

The Toltecs correct incorrect

The Zapotecs correct incorrect

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. What caused an end to the use of Mayan hieroglyphics in the fifteenth century?

The actions of Spanish missionaries correct incorrect

The conquest of Mayan lands by the Aztecs correct incorrect

Replacement by Zapotec script correct incorrect

The collapse of the Mayan educational system correct incorrect