1. All of the following is correct about the Mongols except:

1. they defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert.

2. they established a ruling dynasty in China.

3. they were unsuccessful in permanently conquering western Europe.

4. they were initially unified under Genghis Kahn.

2. Why was the Albigensian heresy viciously attacked and brutally crushed?

1. The Cathars, or "pure ones," believed that the Catholic Church was a materialistic institution and thus evil.

2. An alarming number of cardinals took up its beliefs.

3. Sympathizers with the movement lived throughout Christendom.

4. The movement antagonized local nobles, and clerics sought to gain favor with them by killing the heretics.

3. All the following were true of the papal inquisition except:

1. It primarily utilized Franciscan monks as inquisitors.

2. It used against the Jews.

3. It was devised to deal with heretics.

4. It also known as the Holy Office.

4. What was the interdict?

1. A new ritual used in the Cistercian monasteries.

2. A papal power forbidding priests from administering the sacraments to designated persons.

3. A tactic employed by Moslems again the First Crusade.

4. The power of Holy Roman emperors to remove popes from office.

5. Which Saxon king was crowned emperor of the Romans in 1962?

1. Otto I.

2. Hugh Capet.

3. Charlemagne.

4. Henry II.

6. Under William of Normandy and his son Henry I, medieval England experienced which one of the following?

1. It developed a strong, centralized monarchy.

2. It saw all of its land become part of the Norman family's demesne.

3. It saw its Anglo-Saxon institutions abolished and replaced by Norman ones.

4. It was isolated from continental affairs.

7. The church during the twelfth century became highly centralized, chiefly due to which one of the following groups?

1. The work of quite capable bishops.

2. An efficient and well-organized Papal Curia.

3. The influence of the monastic orders.

4. A series of democratic and efficient popes.

8. Which one of the following trends came about under the Holy Roman Emperors during the eleventh and twelfth centuries?

1. They increased the size of their armies dramatically.

2. They expanded the boundaries of the Empire.

3. They bankrupted their kingdom with their lavish spending.

4. They attempted to exploit the resources of Italy.

9. Which one of the following accurately describes the Cistercians?

1. They decorated their churches with numerous religious and non-religious subjects.

2. They endorsed serfdom and were supported by peasant labor services.

3. They spent more time in private prayer and manual labor by curtailing religious services.

4. They were an old, anti-reform monastic order.

10. What was the only part of France that kings ruled when the Capetian dynasty first began?

1. Nice.

2. Bordeaux.

3. Normandy.

4. The Ile-de-France region around Paris.

11. All of the following were aspects of the Fourth Crusade except:

1. the establishment of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

2. the restoration of the Byzantine Empire as a great Mediterranean power.

3. the Venetian use of Christian forces to attack their economic rivals.

4. the sack of Constantinople by Christian crusaders.

12. Hildegard of Bingen, one of the most accomplished nuns of the twelfth century, is noted for all of the following except

1. her abuse by kings and popes as a "false prophet."

2. her mystical visions of the divine.

3. her three books.

4. her fame as abbess of a convent.

13. How did European Christians treat Jews in the High Middle Ages?

1. At first tolerated and then persecuted.

2. At first persecuted and then tolerated.

3. The Catholic Church ignored the Jews.

4. With steadily growing tolerance.

14. After taking the city of Jerusalem in 1099, what did the Christian soldiers of the First Crusade do?

1. They traveled to Rome to receive the pope's blessing.

2. They massacred most of the men, women, and children in the captured city of Cairo.

3. They created four Christian crusader states with feudal institutions.

4. They sacked Constantinople on their way home.

15. To what does the papal curia refers?

1. The pope's major advisors and administrators.

2. The pope's personal household attendants.

3. The pope's to appoint important bishops and abbots.

4. The pope's right to try kings in his court of law for violations of church law.