Western Civilization I Test Bank
Course Introduction
Western Civilization I offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, cultural, political, and intellectual developments shaping Western society from ancient times through the early modern period. The course explores key civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe, analyzing their contributions to government, philosophy, religion, economics, and the arts. Students examine the rise and fall of empires, the spread of Christianity, feudalism, the Renaissance, and the foundations of the modern Western world, while developing critical thinking skills through analysis of primary sources and historical debates.
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Western Heritage The Volume 1 11th Edition by
Donald M. Kagan
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Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
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Q1) The Greek school of medicine, led by ________, attempted to understand, diagnose, and cure disease without any attention to supernatural forces.
A) Hippocrates
B) Socrates
C) Thucydides
D) Demosthenes
Answer: A
Q2) During the Old Kingdom from 2700 to 2200 b.c.e., a pharaoh was king and was also considered a ________.
Answer: god
Q3) In 550 b.c.e., which king captured the capital at Ecbatana and united the Medes and Persians under his rule?
A) Herodotus
B) Cyrus I
C) Cambyses
D) Cyrus II
Answer: D
Q4) The Assyrians spoke a ________ language closely related to Babylonian. Answer: Semitic
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) The Persians controlled both sides of the ________, the route to the grain fields beyond the Black Sea.
A) Euphrates River
B) Persian Canal
C) Pagasaean Gulf
D) Hellespont
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following poleis is located in Attica?
A) Athens
B) Sparta
C) Corinth
D) Thebes
Answer: A
Q3) The earliest Bronze Age settlements were ________.
A) at the mainland site of Mycenae
B) at the coastal site of Miletus
C) on the islands of the Aegean Sea
D) on the island of Crete
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) Aristotle considered the middle class to be the most stable because it possessed the quality of ________, which gave power to neither the rich nor the poor.
A) compassion
B) moderate wealth
C) competition
D) industry
Answer: B
Q2) ________ studied marine biology, which played a large part in his thinking.
A) Euripides
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Aristotle
Answer: D
Q3) With regard to law, traditional Sophists argued that ________.
A) there is no identifiable conflict between nature and law
B) law is in accord with nature and is of divine origin
C) law is merely the result of convention
D) it is not possible to analyze human beliefs and institutions
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) Women had more power in elite Roman households than their Greek counterparts.They raised the children, ________.
A) and dominated their husbands
B) cooked meals, and were allowed to speak when spoken to C) kept accounts, and supervised the slaves
D) and built the family home
Q2) Although the plebeians won many rights in the Struggle of the Orders, the end result was not democratic because ________.
A) the plebeians who gained higher office were part of a small group of the wealthiest Roman families
B) plebeians were still not allowed to serve as consuls
C) plebeians wanted women to vote
D) the patricians controlled the office of tribune
Q3) Spartacus, a gladiator, led a rebellion of ________ against the Roman nobles in 73 b.c.e.
Q4) Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a private political alliance known as the First ________.
Q5) One of the rewards held out to defeated enemies in Italy was Roman ________.
Q6) Was Rome part of the Hellenistic world? Support your answer with details.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) Augustus reduced the size of the Senate to ________.
A) 20
B) 1000
C) 600
D) 100
Q2) Although the period between Diocletian and Constantine was fraught with issues of succession, both men can be considered successful leaders in the chaos of the late empires.What policies did they enact to promote peace and prosperity? Were any of these policies counterproductive?
Q3) In 311, Galerius issued the Edict of Toleration, permitting Christian worship.He was perhaps influenced by ________.
A) divination at Delphi
B) his Christian wife
C) Jewish advisors
D) Christian music
Q4) Augustus's imperial reign is known as the "Principate" after his title princeps, meaning "first ________."
Q5) Gaius Caesar Germanicus, known as Caligula, acted erratically and was eventually killed by members of the ________.
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Chapter 6: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:
Creating a New European Society and Culture (476 1000)
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Q1) Monophysites believe ________.
A) that the trinity inhabited only one body, that of Jesus
B) that Jesus was only immortal, never a man
C) that Jesus was only a man, never immortal
D) in a single god
Q2) How did relations with Christianity's top religious officials affect the ambitions of political leaders? Give two examples citing different religious traditions.
Q3) "Visigoths" were ________ Germanic Goths.
A) northern
B) southern
C) eastern
D) western
Q4) Muslims indirectly shaped the development of Western Europe because ________.
A) they showed an interest in Roman architecture
B) they forced the Europeans to focus on their own territory and culture
C) Christians wanted to create a culture that would compete with that of the Muslims
D) Europeans converted in large numbers to Islam
Q5) What were the main contributions of the Franks to Western civilization?
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Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires
and States (1000 1300)
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Q1) Louis IX died of a fever during the second of two French ________ against the Muslims.
Q2) Who did the Anglo-Saxon nobles choose to succeed Edward the Confessor after his death in 1066?
A) William, duke of Normandy
B) Henry III
C) Harold Godwinsson
D) Edward II
Q3) Which factor was least responsible for Northern France emerging as a model of medieval society and culture?
A) growing military strength
B) the emergence of Scholasticism in Paris
C) the respect Louis IX had earned among other European monarchs
D) government patronage of Gothic architecture
Q4) During his reign, Pope Innocent III gave official sanction to two new monastic orders: the Franciscans and the Dominicans.Why do you believe such a sanction was given? What characteristics did these orders possess that the papacy believed would prove beneficial to Christendom?
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Q5) ________ were the least secularized and most spiritual of the church's clergy.
Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns,
Universities, and Families (1000 1300)
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Q1) Which of the following is the correct order of the clergy, from the top down?
A) bishops, cathedral canons, and poor parish priests
B) cathedral canons, bishops, and poor parish priests
C) cathedral canons, cardinals, and poor parish priests
D) cathedral canons, archbishops, and urban priests
Q2) A new alliance that emerged from the twelfth century was cooperation between
A) landed and urban nobles
B) nobles and monarchs
C) towns and monarchs
D) monarchs and the papacy
Q3) Unlike the pure serfdom of the servile manors, whose tenants had no original claim to be part of the land, the tenancy obligations on free manors tended to be ________, and the tenants' rights more carefully defined.
Q4) Scholars wrote commentaries on authoritative texts, especially those of Aristotle and the Church Fathers, in a method based on logic and dialectic known as ________.
Q5) Only the nobility were legally allowed to________, but over time uncommon wealth enabled a persistent commoner to qualify.
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political
Breakdown (1300 1453)
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Q1) The plague's impact on towns can be characterized as _______.
A) devastating
B) fatal to the growth of towns
C) irrelevant, since only rural populations were hit by the plague
D) positive in the long run
Q2) Centuries of Christian propaganda had bred hatred toward _________, and they were therefore cast as scapegoats for the spreading plague.
Q3) The Black Death ________.
A) is thought by most scholars to have been a form of smallpox
B) followed the trade routes into Europe from England
C) was preceded by years of famine that weakened the populace
D) was preceded by a gradual decline in population
Q4) Between 1243 and 1480, Russia was ruled by ________.
A) Poland
B) the princes of Kiev
C) the Persians
D) the Mongols
Q5) After ____________ fell to the Turks in 1453, Moscow became, in Russian eyes, the "third Rome."
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Q6) The _____________ was a French tax, levied directly on the peasantry.
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) Renaissance art was much more likely than medieval art to attempt to represent
A) what we see
B) the cosmic order
C) an abstract concept of the world
D) imaginary worlds
Q2) A new alliance between monarchs and ________ helped break the bonds of feudal society.
A) nobles
B) clergy
C) peasants
D) townspeople
Q3) Whose most famous painting is the Mona Lisa?
A) Donatello
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael
D) Leonardo da Vinci
Q4) Between the newly acquired Burgundian lands and his own inheritance, King Louis XI was able to end his reign with a kingdom almost ________ the size of that he had inherited.
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) The events that sparked the Reformation arose from an intersection of which developments?
A) the French invasion of Italy and the end of the Great Schism
B) corruption in the Catholic church and Luther's call for reform
C) the Hundred Years' War and the election of Pope Leo X
D) John Huss' conviction for heresy and the Thirty Years' War
Q2) Scholastic dialectics were promoted and taught by the ________.
A) supporters of the Counter-Reformation
B) leaders of Lutheranism
C) leaders of Calvinism
D) teachers at Protestant schools and universities
Q3) In his Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Luther urged the German princes to ________.
A) force reforms on the Roman Catholic Church
B) embrace the Modern Devotion order
C) allow the Roman church to retain its political and economic power in Germany
D) embrace the Dominican order
Q4) The __________ first met in 1545 to reform the Catholic Church, but made no doctrinal concessions to the Protestants.
Q5) Shakespeare wrote during the _________ Age.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) One of the first actions Ferdinand took as king of Bohemia was to ________.
A) declare the Lutheran religion as the only legal religion in Bohemia
B) warn the Jesuits to leave or be exiled or sentenced to death
C) ban the practice of Catholicism in Protestant Bohemia
D) revoke the religious freedoms of the Bohemian Protestants
Q2) Due to its central location, which of the following nations had always been Europe's highway for merchants and traders going north, south, east and west?
A) Switzerland
B) Germany
C) Austria
D) France
Q3) Discuss the impact of the Edict of Nantes.Was it a definitive peace or merely a truce? What do you think were the motives of Henry IV in issuing the Edict of Nantes? Do you think the Edict of Nantes was beneficial to France as a whole? Why or why not?
Q4) After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, ____________ was the only protector of Protestants in France and the Netherlands.
Q5) How did religious conflict in Europe evolve over the course of the second half of the sixteenth century?
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Chapter 13: European State -Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
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Q1) Describe the rise of Prussia in the 1600s and 1700s.How did Prussia's emergence as a European power shape its state and culture?
Q2) The absolutist model is best represented by ________.
Q3) The economy of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century can be described as ________.
A) strong and diverse
B) weak and in decline
C) strictly agrarian
D) limited to manufacturing industries
Q4) Michael Romanov was the ________.
A) heir to the throne after the death of Peter the Great
B) founder of St. Petersburg
C) son of Ivan the Terrible
D) first of the Romanov dynasty to rule Russia
Q5) After Cromwell's death, the English were soon ready to restore ________.
A) the monarchy and the Anglican Church
B) the Presbyterian Church and diplomatic relations with Spain
C) the monarchy and diplomatic relations with Spain
D) diplomatic relations with Spain and Parliament
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) Charles I's employment of Rubens illustrated to the people of England that
A) baroque art demonstrated religious truths
B) Charles opposed a monarchial government
C) Galileo was incorrect and should be condemned
D) Charles I had Roman Catholic sympathies
Q2) Francis Bacon believed that________.
A) the study of nature began with the articulation of general principles
B) knowledge of nature should be used to improve the human condition
C) knowledge of nature was primarily useful for what it told us about the divine
D) the best era of human history lay in antiquity
Q3) Francis Bacon argued that there were two books of divine revelation, the Bible and nature, and that the two books must be compatible because both shared the same
Q4) Baroque art became associated with ________.
A) the Renaissance
B) English nobility
C) Roman Catholicism
D) popular Protestantism
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Q5) Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.
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