Question 1
Although church law directed lords to set peasants free to serve as priests, lords preferred a serf priest who ________.
A. would serve priests
B. would attend to serfs
C. would lead the congregation as he was directed by the lord
D. continued to serve his lord as a serf while taking on the duties of priesthood
E. would pay half the weekly collection to the lord
Question 2
Louis the Pious worked to break Frankish tradition and leave Lothar, the eldest of his three sons, as sole heir. However, after his second wife bore him a fourth son, _______.
A. Lothar, jealous of his half-brother, worked with his brothers to defeat their father
B. Louis decided to leave the throne to that young son, Charles
C. Louis retired, leaving Lothar as co-regent
D. Louis asked the pope to annul the second marriage
E. he converted to Orthodox Christianity
Question 3
Charlemagne developed the intellectual center of Aachen to patronize scholars and promote classical and Christian education. One development of his efforts was ________.
A. the Lord's Prayer
B. a new design for furniture, attaching a desk to a chair
C. the Carolingian sect of Christian monks
D. Carolingian minuscule, a style of handwriting
E. hundreds of new church songs
Question 4
Charlemagne created special royal envoys who would make visits to different districts as auditors because ________.
A. he suspected that local counts were secret Lombards
B. he hoped different bureaucrats would develop new innovations in administration
C. he wanted to unify the state
D. local counts were becoming less loyal to the crown as they consolidated power
E. governors were requesting funds but not producing any material results
Question 5
Pope Leo III's coronation of Charlemagne and the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire did not simply benefit the new emperor. Leo hoped ________.
A. that the new empire would destroy Constantinople
B. Charlemagne would create the office of pontifex maximus for him
C. to gain leverage over the king and enhance the church's stature
D. to be the next emperor
E. that his illegitimate son would become the next emperor