Question 1
Which of the following is NOT true of indulgences in the High Middle Ages?
A) Indulgences were granted for charitable contributions.
B) Indulgences were granted for viewing the relics of saints.
C) Indulgences could be gained only through pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
D) Indulgences helped the living ease the suffering of deceased souls in purgatory.
E) The church specified the number of years and days of each indulgence.
Question 2
Between 1849 and 1855 more than ___________________ worth of gold was pulled out of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
A) 10 million
B) 20 million
C) 100 million
D) 200 million
E) 300 million
Question 3
Dominic de Guzman, founder of the new Dominican order of preachers,
A) was chiefly concerned with limiting papal power.
B) did not embrace the necessity of poverty for the members of new church orders.
C) was an intellectual who created a new order of learned prelates to fight heresy within the church.
D) worked most closely with popes to reform the College of Cardinals.
E) preached on street corners to common people.
Question 4
By 1854, more than ___________________ people had made their way to California.
A) fifty thousand
B) one hundred thousand
C) two hundred thousand
D) three hundred thousand
E) one million