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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 through 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did people try to avert the black plague?
(a) By offering money to the church.
(b) By going on the Crusades.
(c) By parading in sackcloth and ashes.
(d) By living underground.

3. What did King Charles focus on as his health began to decline?
(a) Paying back his debts.
(b) Winning his wars.
(c) Making peace.
(d) Extending his territory.

4. What city did the papal forces fail to take under Gregory XI?
(a) Pisa.
(b) Florence.
(c) Bologna.
(d) Cesena.

5. What was a knight's work in the 14th century?
(a) Politics.
(b) Policing the cities.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Nation-building.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who convinced Gregory XI to hire mercenaries against the Italians?

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

3. What did the Jacquerie inspire in France?

4. What did the Cardinal do when Anjou took the throne?

5. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?

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