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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?
(a) By borrowing from the Swiss.
(b) By devaluing the coinage.
(c) By selling indulgences.
(d) By increasing taxation.

2. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?
(a) They formed brotherhoods.
(b) They formed militias.
(c) They held town hall meetings.
(d) They formed labor unions.

3. What technology was revolutionizing warfare in the 14th century?
(a) Poison gas.
(b) Observation balloons.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Longbows and guns.

4. Why were music and medicine lumped together in the 14th century?
(a) They both aimed to harmonize the body.
(b) They both relied on mystical intervals of sound and tone.
(c) They both used resonance to heal.
(d) They both drew on the same spirits.

5. How were the dead buried who died of the plague?
(a) In expensive mausoleums.
(b) In individual graves.
(c) In shallow graves.
(d) In centralized cemetaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between the two types of plague?

2. Whom did the Jacquerie kill?

3. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

4. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?

5. What was the castle of Coucy primarily built for?

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