8th Grade Ch 9 Test

The Cistercian order of monks was founded by _____.

• Benedict of Nursia

• Anthony of Egypt

• Bernard of Clairvaux

Pope _____ reached out to the pagan tribes and began the work of their conversion.

• Basil the Great

• Leo III

• Gregory the Great

Monasticism began in about the year 300, when _____ brought together a group of solitary hermits to live in community.

• Basil the Great

• Benedict of Nursia

• Anthony of Egypt

Two Greek brothers, _____, brought the good news of Jesus Christ to "barbarian" Europe in the ninth century.

• Basil and Bernard

• Cyril and Methodius

• Benedict and Scholastica

_____ was a great theologian whose writings helped to defeat the Arians at the Council of Constantinople in 381.

• Basil the Great

• Alcuin

• Gregory the Great

During the seventh and eighth centuries, armies of Muslims conquered much of the Middle East, including the holy sites in _____.

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Jerusalem

In the tenth century a movement to reform monastic life began at the French monastery of Cluny.

• True

• False

Benedict of Nursia lived by the motto Ora et labora, which means "Pray and work" in Latin.

• True

• False

On Christmas Day, 800, Pope Leo III crowned Clovis, the leader of the Franks, as Holy Roman Emperor.

• True

• False

In 1054 a division, or schism, took place in Catholicism, separating the Church in the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire.

• True

• False