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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. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Chaotic but largely plutocratic.
(b) A repressive dictatorship.
(c) Prosperous and democratic.
(d) Constantly unstable.

2. What was increasing as the fourteenth century progressed?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Agricultural production.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Infant mortality.

3. 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.

4. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?
(a) People believed it was a sphere.
(b) People believed it was flat square.
(c) People believed it was hollow.
(d) People believed it a flat circle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which parties were in political conflict in the beginning of the 14th century?

2. Where are the sons of the poor sent when they reach an age to learn a trade?

3. What did the Pastoreaux do to oppose the Church?

4. Where are young women taught?

5. When was the castle of Coucy built?

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