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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a typical penance imposed in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Exile to Britain.
(b) Flogging.
(c) A pilgrimage to Rome.
(d) Devoting one's children to the church.

2. How long did it take to build the castle of Coucy?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Seven generations.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) Seventy years.

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

4. Who was the first "lord of Coucy"?
(a) Comte d'Eudes.
(b) Abbot Guibert.
(c) Archibishop Herve.
(d) Aubry de Coucy.

5. When was the castle of Coucy built?
(a) 1232.
(b) 1323.
(c) 1332.
(d) 1223.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which figures in the church offered believers solace?

2. Why did nobles neglect to condemn the luxuries of the clergy?

3. Where are young women taught?

4. How did people transport things in the 14th century?

5. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?

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