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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were music and medicine lumped together in the 14th century?
(a) They both used resonance to heal.
(b) They both drew on the same spirits.
(c) They both relied on mystical intervals of sound and tone.
(d) They both aimed to harmonize the body.

2. 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 negotiated a peaceful conclusion to hostilities.
(c) He was captured and executed.
(d) He was exiled.

3. How many people lived in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 750,000.
(d) 500,000.

4. What was the result of the agreement between the Third Estate and Dauphin Charles?
(a) France would submit to England.
(b) Tax increases become solely the king's prerogative.
(c) The king would live more frugally.
(d) The king would abdicate and parliament would rule.

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

6. Who was Pope in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Clement V.
(b) John XXII.
(c) Phillip VI.
(d) Clement III.

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

8. What did Edward hope to get by keeping Jean II captive?
(a) Ransom from France.
(b) French land.
(c) Leverage to extract concessions from Philip VI.
(d) An alliance with Charles of Navarre.

9. What idea began to catch on as the plague swept Europe?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Inocculation.
(c) Vaccination.
(d) Quarantine.

10. Where are young women taught?
(a) In women's schools.
(b) In cities.
(c) At home.
(d) In the universities.

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

12. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?
(a) They held town hall meetings.
(b) They formed labor unions.
(c) They formed militias.
(d) They formed brotherhoods.

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

14. How did towns react when Charles of Navarre's brother was ravaging the land?
(a) They made forts of their churches.
(b) They retreated to castles.
(c) They burned their houses and salted their fields.
(d) They joined Charles' brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Jacquerie hold in May of 1358?

2. What is the difference between the two types of plague?

3. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

4. Who founded an Augustinian monastery in Coucy?

5. Where is the castle of Coucy located?

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