Final Exam = 40%
The final exam will take place on Thursday, 11 December from 15:30-18:30 in B9200 and B9201. Plan to be in town that day.
The exam covers material discussed in lectures and assigned for reading in tutorial between 9 October and 1 December, inclusive. It consists of 4 parts. No aids are allowed.
Answer all questions in the examination booklets. Answer Part I and Part II in Booklet #1. Answer Part III in Booklet #2.
Submit the examination paper along with your booklets.
Part I (= 30%) consists of 30 multiple choice questions. Choose the best answer and indicate it in your booklet, e.g. 1e, 2f, 3g, etc. DO NOT ANSWER PART I ON THE EXAMINATION PAPER.
In Part II (= 30%), you will be given three quotations from the tutorial readings since the midterm. You must identify and explain the historical significance of all three quotations in two or three paragraphs. Do not use point form. Each quotation will be accompanied by a specific set of instructions. Among other things, you will be typically asked to provide the specific textual context of the quotation as well as to demonstrate the wider historical significance of the quotation.
In Part III (= 40 %), you must answer one of the following four questions in essay form. All four will appear on the exam. Skip lines and write legibly.
1. One historian has written that "The Christian Church of the Middle Ages was medieval, that is, often brutal, violent, crude, and ignorant. But the Middle Ages was a Christian era, and thus a little less brutal, violent, crude, and ignorant than it might otherwise have been." Here "medieval" is defined as "brutal, violent, crude, and ignorant." Do you agree with this definition of medieval? Why or why not?
2. Adalbero of Laon, a bishop of the eleventh century, commented: "Triple then is the house of God which is thought to be one: on Earth, some pray, others fight, still others work; which three are joined together and may not be torn asunder." Is this an apt characterization of medieval society? Why or why not?
3. "The Renaissance shifted interest from heaven to earth, while geographical expansion enlarged the known earth. The Renaissance manifested more enthusiasm for classical than Christian antiquity." Do you agree with this interpretation of the Renaissance? Why or why not?
4. "The Reformation was above all else a revival of religion. So much is this the case that some have looked upon it as the last great flowering of the piety of the Middle Ages." Do you agree with this assessment of the Reformation of the sixteenth century, both Protestant and Catholic? Why or why not?
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