Choose the right answer:
1) During the Reconquest, the Peninsula was divided in a Moslem region and several ...(b)
a. Islamic areas b. Christian kingdoms
c. Moor provinces d. Castilian regions
2) The Islamic part of the Peninsula was called ...(c)
a. Granada b. Alhambra
c. Al-Andalus d. Moors
3) The Moors blended with the Spanish through many years of (c)... the natives.
a. conquering b. warring
c. marrying d. ruling
4) The Almoravides were (d)... who came to the Peninsula in the eleventh century.
a. crusaders b. monks
c. Christians d. Moslems
5) Rodrigo Diaz, a great hero in the Reconquest, was better known by his Arabic name, ...(a)
a. Cid b. Moor
c. Maimonides d. Alfonso the Wise
6) The Moors built many ...(b)
a. bridges b. mosques
c. churches d. roads
7) Most of the literature in the Islamic area was written in ...(b)
a. Hebrew b. Arabic
c. Castilian d. Latin
8) Alfonso X the Wise established his capital in ...(c)
a. Seville b. Granada
c. Toledo d. Valencia
9) The Reconquest lasted approximately ...(d)
a. 8 years b. 800 centuries
c. one millennium d. 800 years
10) The first Christian kingdom in the Peninsula was ...(b)
a. Pelayo b. Asturias
c. Galicia d. Granada
11) The most important center of religious pilgrimage in the Peninsula during the Middle Ages was in ...(a)
a. Santiago de Compostela b. Granada
c. Toledo d. Covadonga
12) During the Reconquest, when the Christians took a new territory, they ...(d)
a. became Moors b. converted all the Moslems to Christianism
c. let the Inquisition in d. let the Moslems be
13) Alfonso X the Wise wrote, among other things, a first history of Spain (the First General Chronicle) and a religious book, ...(a)
a. Songs to Our Lady b. the Bible
c. the Poem of Cid d. a translation on Greek philosophy
14) The end of the Reconquest took place under the ruling of ...(b)
a. Alfonso the Wise b. Isabella and Ferdinand
c. Almanzor d. Ferdinand the Saint
15) The Church in Spain, for most of this period, was ...(c)
a. very strict b. fighting the Protestants
c. very lenient d. organizing the battles
Identify / Define the following expressions:
16) Inquisition
Religious organization in charge of making sure everybody was a good Christian; persecuting people suspicous of heretics
17) The city of the three cultures
Toledo (Christians, Muslims, and Jews), under the ruling of Alfonso X
18) Pelayo
First leader of the Christians during the Reconquest; defeated the Moors in Covadonga
19) Granada
Last Moslem kingdom/capital in the Peninsula
20) The Book of Good Love
Book about religious love versus physical love, written by an archpriest, in Castilian.
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