Lesson Y304.4

Y304.4 Maintenance of church authority Quiz: OCR History, Unit 3

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Lesson Y304.4, Maintenance of church authority: 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR History (H505), Unit 3: Unit group 3: Thematic study and historical interpretations, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which Cistercian abbot conducted a major preaching tour against Cathars in Languedoc during the 1140s?

    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • Bernard Gui
    • Jacques Fournier
    • Caesarius of Heisterbach

  2. In which year did the Fourth Lateran Council establish sweeping canons against heresy?

    • 1215
    • 1145
    • 1231
    • 1179

  3. Which Dominican inquisitor wrote the famous inquisitorial handbook Practica Inquisitionis Heretice Pravitatis?

    • Bernard Gui
    • Jacques Fournier
    • Jan Huss
    • Bernard of Clairvaux

  4. Which inquisitor, who later became Pope Benedict XII, compiled the Pamiers Inquisition register?

    • Jacques Fournier
    • Caesarius of Heisterbach
    • Bernard Gui
    • John Wycliffe

  5. What literary work containing anti-heretical arguments was written by St Bernard of Clairvaux?

    • Song of Songs sermons
    • Twelve Conclusions
    • Dialogus Miraculorum
    • Practica Inquisitionis

  6. Which religious order, approved in 1216, was specifically created to combat heresy through educated preaching?

    • Cistercians
    • Dominicans
    • Benedictines
    • Franciscans

  7. Which medieval church council condemned John Wycliffe as a heretic and ordered Jan Huss's execution?

    • Council of Basel
    • Council of Constance
    • Fourth Lateran Council
    • Council of Tours

  8. In what decade did Bernard of Clairvaux undertake his famous preaching tour of Languedoc?

    • 1180s
    • 1140s
    • 1120s
    • 1210s

  9. Which monastic order did Caesarius of Heisterbach belong to when writing anti-heretical exempla?

    • Augustinians
    • Dominicans
    • Cistercians
    • Franciscans

  10. What division emerged within the Franciscan Order over the strict interpretation of apostolic poverty?

    • Lollards and Hussites
    • Spirituals and Conventionals
    • Dominicans and Franciscans
    • Cathars and Waldensians

  11. Which English reformer was the ideological founder of the movement known as Lollardy?

    • John Ball
    • John Wycliffe
    • Jan Huss
    • William Sawtre

  12. What was the primary weapon used by Mendicant orders to combat heresy in medieval towns?

    • Excommunication decrees
    • Feudal taxation
    • Military crusades
    • Vernacular preaching

  13. Which year saw the execution of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Huss at Constance?

    • 1381
    • 1431
    • 1400
    • 1415

  14. What conflict broke out in Bohemia following the execution of Jan Huss in 1415?

    • The Peasants' Revolt
    • The Albigensian Crusade
    • The Hussite Wars
    • The Western Schism

  15. Which mystic theologian heavily influenced the radical Franciscan Spiritual faction's apocalyptic beliefs?

    • Caesarius of Heisterbach
    • Bernard Gui
    • John Wycliffe
    • Joachim of Fiore

  16. What name was given to the English followers of John Wycliffe's teachings?

    • Hussites
    • Lollards
    • Waldensians
    • Cathars

  17. Which female Franciscan order was established alongside the Friars Minor by St Francis and St Clare?

    • Dominican Nuns
    • Poor Clares
    • Beguines
    • Augustinian Nuns

  18. In which European kingdom did the Hussite movement challenge papal authority during the 15th century?

    • Hungary
    • France
    • England
    • Bohemia

  19. Which religious order focused heavily on university education to combat intellectual arguments against orthodox faith?

    • Cistercians
    • Trappists
    • Dominicans
    • Benedictines

  20. Which crusade was launched against Cathar heretics in southern France in 1209?

    • Children's Crusade
    • Northern Crusade
    • Albigensian Crusade
    • Baltic Crusade

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