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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people lived in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 750,000.

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

3. What opportunity made warfare attractive to peasants?
(a) Seeing foreign places.
(b) Pillaging.
(c) Serving God.
(d) Owning conquered land.

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

5. How did the church make money in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Taxing mercantile cities.
(b) Selling offices and imposing fines.
(c) Conquering foreign lands.
(d) Selling slaves and imports.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technology was revolutionizing warfare in the 14th century?

3. What answer is offered for anything that cannot be explained?

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

5. Who was the first "lord of Coucy"?

(see the answer key)

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