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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new technology became a metaphor for an organized universe?
(a) The railroad.
(b) The vaccine.
(c) The steam engine.
(d) The mechanical clock.

2. What is the difference between the two types of plague?
(a) One would leave a person pockmarked.
(b) The length of time before death.
(c) One could be survived.
(d) One would affect the eyes.

3. What idea began to catch on as the plague swept Europe?
(a) Inocculation.
(b) Quarantine.
(c) Vaccination.
(d) Euthanasia.

4. Who was Pope in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Phillip VI.
(b) John XXII.
(c) Clement III.
(d) Clement V.

5. When did Herve built the first castle in Coucy?
(a) 910.
(b) 1223.
(c) 841.
(d) 713.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people lived in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

2. What organizations thrived during the plague years?

3. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?

4. Who was exempt from taxation?

5. What was the castle of Coucy primarily built for?

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