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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whom did the Jacquerie kill?
(a) Knights and nobles.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Peasants.
(d) The pope.

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

7. What organizations thrived during the plague years?
(a) Labor unions.
(b) Mystical sects.
(c) Knighthoods.
(d) Churches.

8. Whom did the Jacquerie choose as their leader?
(a) Captal de Buch.
(b) Guillaume Karle.
(c) Charles of Navarre.
(d) Gaston Phoebus.

9. How many people died of the black plague?
(a) Tens of millions.
(b) Hundreds of millions.
(c) There is no way to know.
(d) Hundreds of thousands.

10. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?
(a) Comforter and teacher.
(b) Governor and jailer.
(c) Prophet and mystic.
(d) Protector and police.

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

12. How many people can the castle of Coucy house?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Two hundred fifty.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) A thousand.

13. When did Enguerrand become a historical figure?
(a) 1425.
(b) 1358.
(c) 1396.
(d) 1312.

14. What was Enguerrange III known for?
(a) His conquests.
(b) His brigandage.
(c) The generosity of his noblemen.
(d) His oppressive taxation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?

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

3. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?

4. What new technology became a metaphor for an organized universe?

5. What was the most applied science in the 14th century?

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