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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book did people typically carry in the courts?
(a) Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Caesar's Gallic Wars.
(d) The Book of Hours.

3. How does Catherine of Siena serve Christ?
(a) By copying the bible into foreign languages.
(b) By keeping herself in a constant state of discomfort.
(c) By praying incessantly.
(d) By giving away all her possessions to the poor.

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

5. What reason did Enguerrand give for wanting to stop fighting?
(a) He wanted to return to his family.
(b) He wanted to travel.
(c) He wanted to be made Pope.
(d) He wanted to see to his estate and his business.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who assumes the Papacy after Gregory?

2. What idea began to catch on as the plague swept Europe?

3. How long does a serf have to work on his master's land to be freed?

4. Where did Pope Urban govern Italy from?

5. Whom did the Jacquerie kill?

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