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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would a wealthy child learn until the age of seven?
(a) Morality.
(b) Manners.
(c) Math.
(d) Trades.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did people try to avert the black plague?
(a) By parading in sackcloth and ashes.
(b) By going on the Crusades.
(c) By offering money to the church.
(d) By living underground.

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

10. When did Jean II face an English invasion?
(a) 1342.
(b) 1362.
(c) 1355.
(d) 1351.

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

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

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

14. What became of Enguerrand's son, Thomas?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He became a good leader.
(c) He was excommunicated.
(d) He was executed.

15. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?
(a) He returned Calais to England.
(b) He devalued money.
(c) He exiled Enguerrand.
(d) He beheaded Enguerrand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief among the people allowed the church to maintain its position and make money?

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

3. Where did Sir Robert Knollys lead his army when he invaded France?

4. Why were music and medicine lumped together in the 14th century?

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

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