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

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

3. Where are young women taught?
(a) In cities.
(b) In women's schools.
(c) In the universities.
(d) At home.

4. When was the castle of Coucy built?
(a) 1332.
(b) 1232.
(c) 1223.
(d) 1323.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?

2. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

3. What was a knight's work in the 14th century?

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?

5. How did the 14th century begin?

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