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What best defines the term tenor?


A) melodic line based on traditional plainchant
B) supporting pier of a ribbed vault
C) melody of a courtly love song
D) central post of a door on a Gothic cathedral

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Which term or topic is best associated with the International Gothic style?


A) Doge's Palace, Venice
B) Ars nova
C) chivalric tournaments
D) Dante's Paradiso

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Which of these figures is most closely associated with triplum organum?


A) Abbot Suger
B) Bernart de Ventadorn
C) Pope Gregory the Great
D) Pérotin

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What would have attracted most pilgrims to Chartres cathedral?


A) Dante's advice in the Divine Comedy
B) a Crusade to regain Jerusalem from Muslims
C) the fear of Viking invaders sweeping through Europe
D) the chance to see a relic of the Virgin Mary

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Standing in the triforium gallery of a Gothic church, one could look down and see what?


A) buttress
B) nave arcade
C) clerestory window
D) a tympanum sculpture

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