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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the church during the plague years in the 14th century?
(a) It gained authority as people died, and the church took their lands.
(b) It lost its authority because it could not stop the plague.
(c) It gained adherents as people sought explanations.
(d) It became more inclusive in order to maintain congregations.

2. When did Jean II take the throne of France?
(a) 1350.
(b) 1344.
(c) 1342.
(d) 1348.

3. 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) The crown.
(b) Estates.
(c) The church.
(d) Individual knights.

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

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

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

7. What was the castle of Coucy primarily built for?
(a) Withstanding a siege.
(b) Foreign trade.
(c) A network of marketplaces.
(d) A center for art and literature.

8. How did the people who built the castle of Coucy allow for the people inside the castle to provide for themselves during a siege?
(a) They built installed a system of early detection for invaders.
(b) They built a moat around the castle for water.
(c) They enclosed the surrounding farmland in walls as well.
(d) They built a network of underground entrances.

9. What happened to the leader who accepted an invitation to parley with Charles of Navarre?
(a) He was turned into a double agent who betrayed the peasants.
(b) He was exiled.
(c) He negotiated a peaceful conclusion to hostilities.
(d) He was captured and executed.

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

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

12. How were the dead buried who died of the plague?
(a) In centralized cemetaries.
(b) In individual graves.
(c) In shallow graves.
(d) In expensive mausoleums.

13. Where did Sir Robert Knollys lead his army when he invaded France?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Paris.
(c) The valley of the Loire.
(d) The Pyrennes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organizations thrived during the plague years?

2. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?

3. What would a wealthy child learn until the age of seven?

4. What was the dominant belief about the shape of the earth?

5. Who was accused of poisoning wells?

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