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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?
(a) By traveling abroad.
(b) By owning slaves.
(c) By paying taxes.
(d) By displaying tapestries.

2. What belief among the people allowed the church to maintain its position and make money?
(a) The idea that serving the church in the military would give you the chance to earn grace.
(b) The idea that opposing the church would automatically send you to hell.
(c) The idea that giving to the church would save you from troubles in this life.
(d) The idea that paying alms earns you a place in Heaven.

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

4. When would a wealthy child be sent to another castle to serve as a page?
(a) At sixteen.
(b) At eleven.
(c) At fourteen.
(d) At seven.

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

6. How long did it take to build the castle of Coucy?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) Seventy years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Seven generations.

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

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

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

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

11. How was uncultivated land used when there weren't farmers to farm it?
(a) It was turned into preserves.
(b) It returned to wilderness.
(c) It was logged.
(d) It was used for grazing sheep.

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

13. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?
(a) By selling indulgences.
(b) By devaluing the coinage.
(c) By borrowing from the Swiss.
(d) By increasing taxation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea began to catch on as the plague swept Europe?

3. How did people transport things in the 14th century?

4. When would a child learn combat?

5. How were the dead buried who died of the plague?

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