religion final MCQs

Which is NOT true of the Angevin Empire?

-Eleanor of Aquitaine was a saintly queen who brought no further territory to Henry II by their marriage

Which is NOT true of the development of monasticism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries?

The Cluniac monasteries clung to corporate poverty and emphasized manual labor.

What was NOT a significant accomplishment of King Philip II of France?

Subjugating all of the dukes and counts of France

NOT true of Frederick Barbarossa II

-He was a devout and pious Catholic during his reign

-His mother was a commoner (not royalty)

What is an interdict?

The forbidding of the administration of the sacraments in a region as a penalty and to force submission

Before undertaking advanced study at the university, students had to master the liberal arts. Which did NOT belong in the trivim or quadrivium?

Chemistry and archaeology

Which factors left the Church in need of the new mendicant orders?

Growth in the universities and popular heresies cropping up, as well as a need for stable institutions in rural areas

Which are the mendicant orders most notable in the High Middle Ages?

The Dominicans (O.P.) and the Franciscans (O.F.M.)

How did St. Francis differ from St. Dominic?

-Francis was more focused on poverty as a goal than Dominic, though Dominic was poor

-Francis was not a priest, but Dominic was

-Francis was preaching in a popular style, devotionally, rather than preaching doctrine

There was only one Inquisition.

FALSE

In the early Church everyone agreed that heretics should be executed.

FALSE

The use of theological experts as inquisitors was adopted to try to prevent punishing people for heresy who did not truly hold heretical beliefs.

TRUE

Which is true of St. Thomas Aquinas?

He distinguished essence from existence and used the thought of Aristotle to argue that universals exist first in reality—the essences of things are in things themselves—not in the world of the forms as Plato argued, or just in logic as words that have no real connection to reality, as William of Ockham’s nominalism would argue.

Which is true of William of Ockham?

-He denied the possibility of metaphysics

-He thought natural reasoning was totally divorced from supernatural reasoning

-From his arguments one could get the idea that God rules with absolute will as an arbitrary tyrant

-His thought became very popular, showing the decadence of Scholasticism

Which is the best account of the conflict between Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair?

This conflict shows that the autonomy of the papacy and of the Church was seriously threatened by Gallican ideas. It led to the Avignon Papacy and the condemnation of the Knights Templar.

Which universities are properly paired with their most famous specialty?

Oxford-Theology

Paris-Theology

Which is NOT true of St. Dominic?

He did not support religious women

The Franciscan John Duns Scotus got the Immaculate Conception right. Into which dangerous position did he fall?

He overemphasized the will, to the devaluing of the intelligibility of matters of faith

Renaissance popes like Alexander VI (Borgia) did much to correct the abuses in the Church and lived personally pious lives.

FALSE

The so-called Religious Wars in France and Germany (Thirty Years’ War) were not just about religion, but politics.

TRUE

Baroque architecture swept the Catholic world from South America to Poland during the Catholic (Counter) Reformation.

TRUE

Which of the following is NOT true?

John Calvin believed the prince should determine the religion for his domain.

Which of the following is rightly associated with the Society of Jesus?

-St. Ignatius Loyola as founder

-Jesuits as a nickname

-S.J. as initials

-Brilliant education and zealous ministry work around the globe

What was the main problem that remained unreformed after the Tridentine legislation took effect?

Catholic monarchs saw themselves as absolute and tried to dominate the Church, intervening in theological, liturgical, and administrative matters.

Which of the following was NOT a Jansenist teaching?

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Which of the following is true of the suppression of the Jesuits?

-They were the targets of Freemasonic/Deistic government officials

-They were expelled from a number of kingdoms before the suppression

-Catholic absolute monarchs were complicit in their mistreatment

-While Clement XIII resisted pressure to act against them, Clement XIV succumbed to the pressure and suppressed the society in 1773. It was not revived until 1814.

Which of the following was NOT connected with the missionary evangelization in non-European contexts?

The Battle of Lepanto 1571

Which of the following is NOT true?

The faith died out entirely in Japan between 1640 and 1852

Which is NOT true of the French Revolution?

The revolutionary government respected the autonomy of the pope.

Which pope became a “prisoner in the Vatican”, a reality that would endure until 1929?

Pope Pius IX when French troops withdrew from Rome and Italian forces took the city, trying to deny him sovereignty in 1870.

Which of the following are INCORRECTLY paired?

The English and New Orleans

Where did many Maryland Catholic families end up?

Kentucky