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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall are Troyes' city walls?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 4 feet.

2. What city is the central subject of the book?
(a) Troyes.
(b) Rome.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Paris.

3. What is a typical mattress made of in 1250?
(a) Straw.
(b) Flour stuffed in sacks.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Goose feathers.

4. Who enjoys the right of coinage?
(a) Princes and bishops.
(b) Bards.
(c) Housewives.
(d) Money lenders.

5. What is the difference between Jewish money lenders and Christian money lenders?
(a) Jews only lend foreign currency.
(b) Jews tend to lend at higher interest rates.
(c) Jews deal only in fenced (stolen) property.
(d) Jews tend to lend at lower interest rates.

6. How many people share a wine cup during dining?
(a) The entire table drinks from the same cup.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Just one.

7. Which of the following is NOT a step taken in the preparation of a typical dinner?
(a) Meats must be roasted in a communal oven.
(b) Food must be taken to the cathedral to be blessed.
(c) Servants chop and blanch vegetables.
(d) The wife must visit the butcher's to select a meat.

8. What does a tanner use to soften an animal's hide?
(a) Ethyl alcohol.
(b) Sugar water.
(c) Fermented bran juice.
(d) Oil of peppermint.

9. How many deniers make up one shilling?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 2.
(d) 100.

10. Who is a wet nurse?
(a) A woman who attends to drowning victims.
(b) A magician who lives in the swamp.
(c) A doctor specializing in the fluids of the body.
(d) A woman who nurses another woman's baby.

11. Wealthy burghers can expect to have a home of how many stories?
(a) Four.
(b) Two and a half.
(c) They share a one-story home with another burgher.
(d) One.

12. What did a doctor do for common wound and injuries?
(a) Melted candle wax and applied it to the wound.
(b) Appealed to God in a prayer to cure the wound.
(c) Placed a ruby on the wrist for relief of pain.
(d) Applied a binding to the wound, and kept it clean and sterile.

13. Which historical figure first encourages the merchant fairs of Troyes?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Chretien de Troyes.
(c) The Bishop of Canterbury.
(d) Thibaut the Great.

14. How many shillings make up one pound?
(a) 200.
(b) 85.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

15. Why do housewives frequently refrain from wearing makeup or wigs?
(a) There is a common fear that such "disguises" bring bad luck.
(b) Makeup and wigs contain unhealthy and allergic materials.
(c) Burghers prefer their wives to be natural beauties.
(d) The wearing of make up or wigs is frowned upon by the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "churching?"

2. What accounts for varying degrees of quality in iron, as fashioned by a blacksmith?

3. What is an ecuelle?

4. In 1250, who lives in the Viscount's Tower?

5. What are common maladies in the 13th century?

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