
1. "Here on this side are all the causes; there are all the effects; nothing could be as senseless as such a dichotomy. Is a society, like a mind, not a fabric of perpetual interactions?" In this quotation, Bloch
~  In this quotation, Bloch argues that cause-and-effect relationships are non-linear.
@ In this quotation, Bloch argues that cause-and-effect relationships are non-linear.
*a. argues that cause-and-effect relationships are non-linear.
b. critiques historical materialism.
c. asks for the aid of neurologists in the study of history.
d. critiques feudal annals for their senseless approach to history.

2. How can one detect Marx's influence on Bloch in this passage?
~ Bloch uses Marx's historical materialist model of analysis but with demographics at the base rather than economics, and he comments on the alienating effects of the shift from prebend compensation to wage labor.
@ Bloch uses Marx's historical materialist model of analysis but with demographics at the base rather than economics, and he comments on the alienating effects of the shift from prebend compensation to wage labor.
a. One can detect Marx's influence in Bloch's analysis of class hierarchies in the feudal era.
b. One can detect Marx's influence on the way that Bloch analyzes historical change as being rooted in economic activity.
*c. Bloch uses Marx's historical materialist model of analysis but with demographics at the base rather than economics, and he comments on the alienating effects of the shift from prebend compensation to wage labor.
d. Actually, Marx had no detectable effect on the way Bloch analyzed or wrote about history.

3. According to Bloch, the profound decline in European population after the fall of Rome naturally led to 
~ The profound decline in European population after the fall of Rome naturally led to communication problems because people tended to live far apart from one another.
@ The profound decline in European population after the fall of Rome naturally led to communication problems because people tended to live far apart from one another.
a. the growth of towns.
*b. communication problems because people tended to live far apart from one another.
c. a need for a stronger State due to the large number of brigands infesting the roads.
d. decline in artistic ability and quality of construction.

4. European Annales-school historians can be best categorized as 
~ European Annales-school historians can be best categorized as social historians. In American historiography, social historians were known as the "Progressive school."
@ European Annales-school historians can be best categorized as social historians. In American historiography, social historians were known as the "Progressive school."
*a. social historians.
b. Marxist historians.
c. political historians.
d. military historians.

5. The revolutionary impact of historians such as Bloch 
~ The revolutionary impact of historians such as Bloch was the "opening up" of history to exploration from the perspectives of ancillary social science disciplines such as economics, demographics, sociology, and numismatics. "Down with all barriers and labels! At the frontiers, astride the frontiers, with one foot on each side, that is where the historian has to work, freely usefully."
@ The revolutionary impact of historians such as Bloch was the "opening up" of history to exploration from the perspectives of ancillary social science disciplines such as economics, demographics, sociology, and numismatics. "Down with all barriers and labels! At the frontiers, astride the frontiers, with one foot on each side, that is where the historian has to work, freely usefully."
a. was the new view of the Feudal Age as having two distinct phases.
b. was the development of new rules for writing history.
c. was the complete rejection of historical materialism.
*d. was the "opening up" of history to exploration from the perspectives of ancillary social science disciplines such as economics, demographics, sociology, and numismatics.

6. According to Bloch, problems in _____ led to infrequent and limited commerce.
~ Problems in communication between population centers led to infrequent and limited commerce.
@ Problems in communication between population centers led to infrequent and limited commerce.
a. agricultural yield
b. serfs' relationships with feudal lords
*c. communication between population centers
d. capital accumulation

7. Total history is 
~ Total history is a historiographical method that attempts cover all aspects of history, requiring cooperation with social scientists and the use of their methods, it is advocated for by Annales-school historians.
@ Total history is a historiographical method that attempts cover all aspects of history, requiring cooperation with social scientists and the use of their methods, it is advocated for by Annales-school historians.
*a. a historiographical method that attempts cover all aspects of history, requiring cooperation with social scientists and the use of their methods.
b. a historiographical school that sought to downplay the significance of political "event oriented" history, in favor of studying long-term ecological, economic, and social change.
c. a historiographical style that employs the methodologies of science for historical analysis.
d. culturally-derived sets of rules that govern the act of interpretation.

8. According to Bloch, in the second feudal age
~ In the second feudal age, populations concentrated together around towns, leading to more investment in maintenance of roads and bridges. Improvements in harnessing technologies and the increase in water traffic led to increased commerce and a favorable trade balance with the Asian Mediterranean, leading to more minting and regular availability of money, which led to an increase in wage labor.
@ In the second feudal age, populations concentrated together around towns, leading to more investment in maintenance of roads and bridges. Improvements in harnessing technologies and the increase in water traffic led to increased commerce and a favorable trade balance with the Asian Mediterranean, leading to more minting and regular availability of money, which led to an increase in wage labor.
a. communications between people improved as a result of stronger state interventions. 
b. feudal lords began to employ large numbers of day laborers.
c. the natural evolution of the economy precluded real revisions of social values.
*d. populations concentrated together around towns, leading to more investment in maintenance of roads and bridges. Improvements in harnessing technologies and the increase in water traffic led to increased commerce and a favorable trade balance with the Asian Mediterranean, leading to more minting and regular availability of money, which led to an increase in wage labor.

9. Bloch's selection presented here did NOT focus on which of the following aspects of society in the feudal age?
~ Bloch's selection presented here did NOT focus on art.
@ Bloch's selection presented here did NOT focus on art.
a. Commerce
*b. Art
c. Communications
d. Demographics

10. "The slow pace of commerce and monetary circulation had yet another, far graver consequence...it was absolutely necessary to resort to a mode of remuneration that was not at all based on the periodical flow of a sum of money. Two solutions were offered: take the man in, feed him, clothe him, provide him with "provisions" (as they called them); or cede to him some land in compensation for his labor that allowed him to provide for his own well-being." In this quotation, Bloch
~ In this quotation, Bloch explains how limited commerce during the first feudal age affected compensation patterns and social relationships between lords and employees. Low demographic density led to infrequent local commerce, which contributed to currency shortage (also caused by imbalance of trade with Islamic countries on the eastern Mediterranean), which caused lords to compensate employees by offering lands or positions within the household, as characteristic of feudalism.
@ In this quotation, Bloch explains how limited commerce during the first feudal age affected compensation patterns and social relationships between lords and employees. Low demographic density led to infrequent local commerce, which contributed to currency shortage (also caused by imbalance of trade with Islamic countries on the eastern Mediterranean), which caused lords to compensate employees by offering lands or positions within the household, as characteristic of feudalism.
a. explains the importance that politics played in the creation of indentured servitude.
b. describes how, in the second feudal age, slow communications led to the development of feudal serfdom.
c. shows himself to be fully subscribed to the traditional Marxist idea of historical materialism.
*d. explains how limited commerce during the first feudal age affected compensation patterns and social relationships between lords and employees.