Question 1
How does William Sidney Mount's painting Farmers Nooning contradict the trends in farming that were taking place in the United States while a market economy was developing?
A) The farm tools shown in the painting were typical of the mechanized tools used in
commercial farming.
B) Commercialized farming placed greater emphasis on the use of slave labor.
C) Commercialized farming challenged the traditional ideas and rituals of farming.
D) The painting focuses on the raising of livestock instead of commercial farming.
Question 2
The nunnery was an option for single women from ________.
A. lower social classes
B. higher social classes
C. merchants and artisan families
D. all social classes
E. farming families
Question 3
In which of the following respects were medieval woman treated as superior to men?
A. physical prowess
B. morality
C. purity
D. mental ability
E. All of these answers are correct.
Question 4
________ outlived Abelard by 20 years and devoted herself to reforming the rules of women's cloisters.
A. Eleanor
B. Mary
C. Sorbonne
D. Louise
E. Hlose
Question 5
________ was possibly the brightest logician and dialectician of the High Middle Ages, but paid dearly for it, ending his life in a priory.
A. Abelard
B. Sorbonne
C. Aristotle
D. Ptolemy
E. Copernicus
Question 6
The University of ________ became the model for the study of theology.
A. Bologna
B. Berlin
C. Oxford
D. Paris
E. Constantinople