View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was accused of poisoning wells?
(a) Gypsies.
(b) Protestants.
(c) Knights Templar.
(d) Jews.

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

3. What did the Jacquerie hold in May of 1358?
(a) A secession meeting.
(b) An "indignation meeting."
(c) A constitutional convention.
(d) An open revolt.

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

5. Who are more susceptible to the black plague?
(a) The poor.
(b) The aristocrats.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The knights.

6. What was a typical penance imposed in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Devoting one's children to the church.
(b) Exile to Britain.
(c) Flogging.
(d) A pilgrimage to Rome.

7. How did the 14th century begin?
(a) With a plague.
(b) With a population increase.
(c) With increases in agricultural production.
(d) With large-scale wars.

8. Who was put in charge of the money for knights and armies, as a result of the agreement between the Third Estate and Dauphin Charles?
(a) Individual knights.
(b) Estates.
(c) The crown.
(d) The church.

9. How did people explain the advent of the plague?
(a) Centralization of power in governments.
(b) Corruption in the church.
(c) Unpaid debts.
(d) Planetary alignments.

10. What technology was revolutionizing warfare in the 14th century?
(a) Longbows and guns.
(b) Observation balloons.
(c) Poison gas.
(d) Artillery.

11. How did the black plague affect the animals of Europe?
(a) They vacated the continent until the plague had passed.
(b) They died from eating diseased bodies.
(c) Their populations thrived with all the bodies to eat.
(d) They entered into people's homes looking for safe food.

12. What became of Enguerrand's son, Thomas?
(a) He was executed.
(b) He was excommunicated.
(c) He became a good leader.
(d) He was murdered.

13. Which figures in the church offered believers solace?
(a) The pope.
(b) Patron saints.
(c) The bishops.
(d) The worshippers themselves.

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

15. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Dauphin reinstate the chancellors and dismiss the Grand Council?

2. What happened to the leader who accepted an invitation to parley with Charles of Navarre?

3. How did people transport things in the 14th century?

4. When did Jean II take the throne of France?

5. Why were music and medicine lumped together in the 14th century?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 444 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample