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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of mercenaries on the French countryside?
(a) They protected the towns from invaders.
(b) They wrought havoc on the population.
(c) They brought peace and allowed prosperity to take hold.
(d) They collected taxes with violence.

2. What opportunity made warfare attractive to peasants?
(a) Serving God.
(b) Pillaging.
(c) Owning conquered land.
(d) Seeing foreign places.

3. What happened to Coucy in 1197?
(a) It was attacked and ravaged.
(b) It was sold as a commune.
(c) It was consolidated with neighboring territories.
(d) It was developed into a castle.

4. What were the first signs of the people rebelling against the church?
(a) Luddites destroy machinery in the textile indutry.
(b) Church attendance declined.
(c) The Papal tax collectors were attacked.
(d) The gap between rich and poor widened.

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

6. When was the castle of Coucy built?
(a) 1223.
(b) 1332.
(c) 1232.
(d) 1323.

7. How was uncultivated land used when there weren't farmers to farm it?
(a) It was logged.
(b) It was turned into preserves.
(c) It returned to wilderness.
(d) It was used for grazing sheep.

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

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

10. Who led the Third Estate of Paris while Jean II was a captive of the English?
(a) Dauphin Charles.
(b) Etienne Marcel.
(c) Charles of Navarre.
(d) Philip Vi.

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

12. Who founded an Augustinian monastery in Coucy?
(a) Archibishop Herve.
(b) Aubry de Coucy.
(c) Comte d'Eudes.
(d) Abbot Guibert.

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

14. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?
(a) He exiled Enguerrand.
(b) He devalued money.
(c) He returned Calais to England.
(d) He beheaded Enguerrand.

15. What did the Jacquerie inspire in France?
(a) Repressive measures from the king.
(b) Armed insurrections.
(c) Independence for peasants.
(d) Political discussions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did towns react when Charles of Navarre's brother was ravaging the land?

2. What is the difference between the two types of plague?

3. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

4. What could bastard sons buy from the church in the beginning of the 14th century?

5. How did the church make money in the beginning of the 14th century?

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