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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did wealthy men create a base of commerce at Coucy?
(a) They taxed the people and imported spices from India with the proceeds.
(b) They sent overland cargo transports to Italy and the East.
(c) They used the port as a center for foreign trade.
(d) They sold their support to the landowners.

2. How are the wealthy different from the poor in the age they marry?
(a) They are typically older.
(b) They are typically younger.
(c) They typically take more than one wife at a time.
(d) They typically marry more than once.

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

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

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

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

7. How did people transport things in the 14th century?
(a) Canals.
(b) Railroad.
(c) Mule trains.
(d) Caravans.

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

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

10. Who arranged for the release of Charles of Navarre?
(a) Jean II.
(b) Enguerrand.
(c) The Dauphin.
(d) Marcel.

11. Where were Jews burned inside a house in a plague town?
(a) Basel.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Berlin.
(d) London.

12. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?
(a) People believed it was hollow.
(b) People believed it was flat square.
(c) People believed it a flat circle.
(d) People believed it was a sphere.

13. When did Jean II face an English invasion?
(a) 1362.
(b) 1351.
(c) 1355.
(d) 1342.

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

15. How did Philip the Fair prove his claims of heresy against the Templars?
(a) By forcing confessions from Knights Templar.
(b) By publishing intercepted letters.
(c) By playing off people's superstitions.
(d) By raiding Templar meeting houses.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was accused of poisoning wells?

4. Whom did the Jacquerie choose as their leader?

5. What answer is offered for anything that cannot be explained?

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