Monday 20 September 2010

Quiz Questions for Chapter 3

Oops. I forgot to publish these last week. Sorry!


Byzantine government tended to be

(a) defensive and conservative.

(b) poorly funded and weak.

(c) small and minimal.


In the Byzantine Orthodox Church between 500 and 1000, controversy raged about

(a) monophysites and iconoclasm.

(b) clerical celibacy.

(c) the emperor’s status as God’s vice-regent.


Justinian and his empress Theodora lived

(a) c. 350.

(b) c. 450.

(c) c. 550.


Mohammed died in

(a) 632.

(b) 732.

(c) 832.


The split between Sunni and Shi’i Muslims began as a dispute about

(a) who should lead the community of the faithful.

(b) whether Mohammed was human or divine.

(c) how to treat other “peoples of the book.”


Which provides the proper chronological order?

(a) Umayyad dynasty; Abbasid dynasty; al-Mansur in al-Andalus.

(b) Abbasid dynasty; al-Mansur in al-Andalus; Umayyad dynasty.

(c) al-Mansur in al-Andalus; Abbasid dynasty; Umayyad dynasty.


In the tenth century, the greatest city in Western Europe was

(a) Marseilles.

(b) Lisbon.

(c) Cordoba.

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