A World Lit Only By Fire Summer Reading Test
Section 1: The Medieval Mind
1. Whose country was described as “the back of a horse?”
The Huns’ country
2. Who declared he was “above grammar?”
Sigismund
3. Who invaded Rome in A.D. 410?
The Visigoths under the leadership of Alaric
4. Who was the last Roman emperor of the west?
Romulus Augustulus
5. What were the serfs’ basic agricultural tools?
Picks, forks, spades, rakes, scythes, and balanced sickles
6. Why did outlaws flourish in the Hercynian Forest?
The were seldom pursued
7. What replaced Rome as the imperial fixer of European frontiers?
Constantinople
8. What is the Nicene Creed?
The Creed that Constantine set up for his theology
9. What was the first great work to shape and define the medieval mind?
De civitate Dei
10. What did Canossa symbolize?
Secular submission
11. When did the designation of saints emerge?
Second and third centuries after Christ
12. Why did Leo III become a......
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