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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was exempt from taxation?
(a) Freemen.
(b) Slaves.
(c) People with only one estate.
(d) Men of the sword.

4. How did the people who built the castle of Coucy allow for the people inside the castle to provide for themselves during a siege?
(a) They built a network of underground entrances.
(b) They built installed a system of early detection for invaders.
(c) They built a moat around the castle for water.
(d) They enclosed the surrounding farmland in walls as well.

5. How did the 14th century begin?
(a) With increases in agricultural production.
(b) With a plague.
(c) With a population increase.
(d) With large-scale wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?

2. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

3. When was the castle of Coucy built?

4. How did Philip the Fair prove his claims of heresy against the Templars?

5. Where is the castle of Coucy located?

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