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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did wealthy men create a base of commerce at Coucy?
(a) They sold their support to the landowners.
(b) They used the port as a center for foreign trade.
(c) They sent overland cargo transports to Italy and the East.
(d) They taxed the people and imported spices from India with the proceeds.

2. What did the church teach about life on earth?
(a) It was man's only chance at meaning.
(b) It was just a passage.
(c) It was necessarily painful.
(d) It fulfilled a divine plan.

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

4. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 4,000.

5. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?
(a) By paying taxes.
(b) By owning slaves.
(c) By traveling abroad.
(d) By displaying tapestries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was exempt from taxation?

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

4. When did Philip the Fair accuse the Templars of heresy?

5. How did the church resist dissolution for its excesses?

(see the answer key)

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