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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What answer is offered for anything that cannot be explained?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Astronomy.

7. What did the Third Estate accomplish while Jean II was a captive of the English?
(a) They signed the Magna Carta.
(b) They killed Jean II's son.
(c) They conquered Calais and bordering lands.
(d) They gained control over the monarchy.

8. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?
(a) Abbot Guibert.
(b) Comte d-Eudes.
(c) Aubry de Coucy.
(d) Enguerrand III.

9. When did the Dauphin reinstate the chancellors and dismiss the Grand Council?
(a) 1361.
(b) 1357.
(c) 1351.
(d) 1355.

10. What is the difference between the two types of plague?
(a) One would leave a person pockmarked.
(b) The length of time before death.
(c) One could be survived.
(d) One would affect the eyes.

11. Where was Jean kept during his captivity by the English?
(a) In a dungeon.
(b) In Corsica.
(c) In a monastery.
(d) In an elaborate household.

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

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

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

15. Why did nobles neglect to condemn the luxuries of the clergy?
(a) Because the nobility and clergy needed each other.
(b) Because the nobles profited from the clergy's decadence.
(c) Because the clergy was more powerful than the nobles.
(d) Because the clergy still lived relatively Spartan existences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people can the castle of Coucy house?

2. How was uncultivated land used when there weren't farmers to farm it?

3. What did the church teach about life on earth?

4. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?

5. Where were Jews burned inside a house in a plague town?

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