Quiz Questions for Chapter 7

At the castle of Canossa in 1077, what critical event occurred?

(a) Emperor Henry IV humbled himself before Pope Gregory VII.

(b) King John of England captured Pope Boniface VIII.

(c) celibacy was declared as required for all clergy.

Of all early universities, the greatest was in

(a) Rome.

(b) Paris.

(c) Aachen.

The Papacy reached its greatest power under

(a) Urban II, c. 1100.

(b) Hadrian IV, c. 1150.

(c) Innocent III, c. 1200.

The Investiture Controversy involved

(a) lay authority over clergy.

(b) papal control of central Italy.

(c) kings becoming vassals of the pope.

The papalist position argued that the pope was the head of Christendom, the imperialist position argued that the Holy Roman Emperor should rule in matters religious as well as temporal, and the clericalist position argued that

(a) a representative assembly of clergy should govern Europe.

(b) Church and state should coexist.

(c) neither popes not emperors had legitimate authority to govern.

The shift “from memory to written record”

(a) facilitated the growth of papal power over lordly power.

(b) discouraged the growth of municipal schools.

(c) speaks to an increase in the use of government and personal documentation.

In consolidating the Papal States, popes faced

(a) rebellions in Rome.

(b) difficulties with the Holy Roman Empire.

(c) neither.

(d) both.

Lombardy is located

(a) north of Rome.

(b) south of Rome.

(c) east of Rome.

(d) west of Rome.