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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?
(a) Governor and jailer.
(b) Comforter and teacher.
(c) Prophet and mystic.
(d) Protector and police.

2. How was uncultivated land used when there weren't farmers to farm it?
(a) It was logged.
(b) It returned to wilderness.
(c) It was used for grazing sheep.
(d) It was turned into preserves.

3. How did people try to avert the black plague?
(a) By going on the Crusades.
(b) By offering money to the church.
(c) By parading in sackcloth and ashes.
(d) By living underground.

4. What belief among the people allowed the church to maintain its position and make money?
(a) The idea that opposing the church would automatically send you to hell.
(b) The idea that giving to the church would save you from troubles in this life.
(c) The idea that serving the church in the military would give you the chance to earn grace.
(d) The idea that paying alms earns you a place in Heaven.

5. What opportunity made warfare attractive to peasants?
(a) Pillaging.
(b) Seeing foreign places.
(c) Serving God.
(d) Owning conquered land.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the wealthy different from the poor in the age they marry?

2. What was the most applied science in the 14th century?

3. What did the church teach about life on earth?

4. How did the people who built the castle of Coucy allow for the people inside the castle to provide for themselves during a siege?

5. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?

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