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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Philip de Artevelde offer allegiance after he assumed the Regent?
(a) France.
(b) Prussia.
(c) The Pope.
(d) England.

2. How many guests turned out to welcome Roman Emperor Charles IV?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 800.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 100.

3. How did the Genoese present their request for French military assistance?
(a) As a conquest.
(b) As a holy obligation.
(c) As an inquisition.
(d) As a crusade.

4. What happened to Urban VI after he assumed the Papacy?
(a) His power went to his head.
(b) He sought to unify the cardinals and archbishops.
(c) He brokered peace between England and France.
(d) He initiated an age of peace and exploration.

5. Who was appointed Captain-General of the pope's forces in 1371?
(a) Urban.
(b) Enguerrand.
(c) Visconti.
(d) Gregory XI.

6. What was Enguerrand's relation to the English King?
(a) Son in law.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Son.
(d) Brother.

7. Why were Enguerrand's men ultimately discouraged?
(a) Lack of food and plunder.
(b) A string of losses.
(c) Constant guerilla-style harassment.
(d) Low pay.

8. Who condemned Enguerrand's sale of dynastic property?
(a) Froissart.
(b) Wenceslas IV.
(c) Isabeau.
(d) Count Guy de Blois.

9. How was sex handled in King Edward's culture?
(a) Sex was discussed openly among initiates.
(b) All mention of sex was forbidden in society.
(c) It was treated openly in poems.
(d) It was an open secret, but it was not spoken about in polite society.

10. The papacy after Gregory was disputed between whom?
(a) Clement and Charles.
(b) Gregory and Urban.
(c) Urban and Clement.
(d) Visconti.

11. What were many people waiting for during the plague years?
(a) The end of time.
(b) Papal intercession.
(c) A cure for the plague.
(d) Total war.

12. How many times was King Edward's first daughter promised in marriage?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

13. Whom did Enguerrand marry in 1365?
(a) Isabella.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Philippa.
(d) Elizabeth.

14. Who was captured and held without ransom?
(a) Chandos.
(b) King Edward.
(c) The Black Prince.
(d) Captal de Buch.

15. Who was King Edward's daughter promised to when she was nineteen?
(a) A propertied landowner.
(b) A wealthy merchant's son.
(c) A nobleman's youngest son.
(d) A propertied landowner's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Pope Urban govern Italy from?

2. Under what condition was sex permitted in the mid-fourteenth century?

3. Why is a knight loyal to the queen when the king is absent?

4. Who convinced Gregory XI to hire mercenaries against the Italians?

5. Who pleaded with the pope for Church reform?

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