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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. 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.

2. Why did nobles neglect to condemn the luxuries of the clergy?
(a) Because the clergy still lived relatively Spartan existences.
(b) Because the nobility and clergy needed each other.
(c) Because the nobles profited from the clergy's decadence.
(d) Because the clergy was more powerful than the nobles.

3. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?
(a) People believed it was a sphere.
(b) People believed it was flat square.
(c) People believed it a flat circle.
(d) People believed it was hollow.

4. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?
(a) He returned Calais to England.
(b) He exiled Enguerrand.
(c) He beheaded Enguerrand.
(d) He devalued money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which figures in the church offered believers solace?

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

3. What became of Enguerrand's son, Thomas?

4. Who are more susceptible to the black plague?

5. What was increasing as the fourteenth century progressed?

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