CIV 101 - Quiz 5

Name: Tessa Kattom Quiz 5 1. Founder of the Benedictine order. a. Benedict Arnold b. Benedict Cumberbatch c. Benedict of Nursia d. Eggs Benedict 2. Philosopher who reconciled Platonic philosophy with Christian theology. a. Bede b. Thomas Aquinas c. Augustine of Hippo d. Boccaccio 3. Philosopher who reconciled Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology. a. Bede b. Thomas Aquinas c. Augustine of Hippo d. Boccaccio 4. Language in which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron . a. Latin b. Italian c. Middle English d. Greek 5. German whose development of the printing press during the Northern Renaissance facilitated mass communication of ideas in Europe. a. Jan van Eyck b. Christopher Columbus c. Johannes Gutenberg d. Giovanni Boccaccio 6. Italian sailor who opened up exploration of the Americas in 1492 sailing under the Spanish flag, leading to the creation of the Spanish Empire. a. Jan van Eyck b. Christopher Columbus c. Johannes Gutenberg d. Giovanni Boccaccio 7. Polish astronomer whose On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres postulated a heliocentric model of the galaxy. a. Nicolaus Copernicus b. Johannes Kepler c. Galileo Galilei d. Giordano Bruno 8. German mathematician whose use of planetary observations supported the heliocentric model of the galaxy and showed that the planetary orbits were parabolic. a. Nicolaus Copernicus b. Johannes Kepler c. Galileo Galilei d. Giordano Bruno 9. Italian astronomer whose use of the telescope demonstrated the heliocentric model and who formulated the Law of Inertia. a. Nicolaus Copernicus b. Johannes Kepler c. Galileo Galilei d. Giordano Bruno