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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Enguerrand become a historical figure?
(a) 1425.
(b) 1396.
(c) 1358.
(d) 1312.

2. What was the most applied science in the 14th century?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Bridge-building.
(d) Prophecy.

3. When would a child learn combat?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Seven.

4. How did towns react when Charles of Navarre's brother was ravaging the land?
(a) They burned their houses and salted their fields.
(b) They made forts of their churches.
(c) They retreated to castles.
(d) They joined Charles' brother.

5. Who was the first "lord of Coucy"?
(a) Comte d'Eudes.
(b) Aubry de Coucy.
(c) Archibishop Herve.
(d) Abbot Guibert.

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

7. How many people can the castle of Coucy house?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Two hundred fifty.

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

9. How did Sir Robert Knollys avoid being condemned for breaking the treaty with France?
(a) He arranged for Jean II to be killed.
(b) He gave the booty to Edward.
(c) He installed Edward as the king of the conquered lands.
(d) He threatened Edward with invasion.

10. What could bastard sons buy from the church in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Nobility papers.
(b) Papers of legitimacy.
(c) Military appointments.
(d) Brides.

11. Where are the sons of the poor sent when they reach an age to learn a trade?
(a) To serve in the military.
(b) To study at a university.
(c) To apprentice with a craftsman.
(d) To work for distant relatives.

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

13. Which parties were in political conflict in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Rulers and the freemen.
(b) Aristocrats and rulers.
(c) The clergy and rulers.
(d) Rulers and merchants.

14. Whom did the Jacquerie choose as their leader?
(a) Guillaume Karle.
(b) Gaston Phoebus.
(c) Charles of Navarre.
(d) Captal de Buch.

15. How many people died of the black plague?
(a) Hundreds of millions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Tens of millions.
(d) There is no way to know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Edward hope to get by keeping Jean II captive?

2. Where did Sir Robert Knollys lead his army when he invaded France?

3. What was the effect of mercenaries on the French countryside?

4. How were the dead buried who died of the plague?

5. What new technology became a metaphor for an organized universe?

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