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Early Christian art depicted Christ as a beardless youth, but Byzantine art increasingly portrayed him as an older, bearded man. |
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| | B) | False |
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Although the Byzantines spoke Greek, they referred to themselves as Romans. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Like Latin clergy, Eastern clergy had to remain celibate. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Despite his accomplishments in the field of educational reform, Charlemagne never learned to write. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The seven liberal arts which made up the curriculum at Carolingian schools included geometry, music, and Latin grammar, but not physics or chemistry. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The division of Charlemagne's realm by the Treaty of Verdun laid the groundwork for the eventual development of France and Germany. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Alexiad was an epic Byzantine poem about the exploits of Alexander the Great. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The author of The Consolation of Philosophy wrote the work while sitting in jail awaiting his execution. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Unlike the courts of the Carolingians and the Byzantines, the courts of the Ostrogoths failed to produce any notable literary works. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Bede intended his account of the conversion of the English people to Christianity to be a refutation of the theological ideas laid out in Augustine's The City of God. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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More than eight of the Ten Books of Histories by Gregory of Tours cover events of the sixth century. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Although Hrotsvitha modeled her plays off of those by Terence, she made her female characters virtuous and laudable rather than fickle and immoral. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The epic poem Beowulf tells the tale of a Christian king who is sent forth by the pope to rid Europe of monsters. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Alcuin's efforts to reform written Latin contributed to the death of Latin as a spoken language. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Probably because both the Eastern and Western churches were ambivalent about the propriety of religious iconography, most of the surviving art of the early Middle Ages is secular rather than religious. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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