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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 new technology became a metaphor for an organized universe?
(a) The vaccine.
(b) The railroad.
(c) The mechanical clock.
(d) The steam engine.

2. What idea began to catch on as the plague swept Europe?
(a) Quarantine.
(b) Euthanasia.
(c) Inocculation.
(d) Vaccination.

3. What was Enguerrange III known for?
(a) The generosity of his noblemen.
(b) His oppressive taxation.
(c) His brigandage.
(d) His conquests.

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

5. How did the church resist dissolution for its excesses?
(a) Its roots ran deep in Coucy society.
(b) It could buy out any opposition.
(c) It enforced its power with well-armed militias.
(d) It oppressed any dissenters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are more susceptible to the black plague?

2. How did people explain the advent of the plague?

3. Where are young women taught?

4. What belief among the people allowed the church to maintain its position and make money?

5. When did Jean II take the throne of France?

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