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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did Enguerrand give for wanting to stop fighting?
(a) He wanted to see to his estate and his business.
(b) He wanted to travel.
(c) He wanted to return to his family.
(d) He wanted to be made Pope.

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

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

4. How did Enguerrand punish looters?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Fines.
(c) He did not punish them.
(d) Hard labor.

5. How long after his visit to France did Charles IV die?
(a) Eight months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Six months.

6. When does Gregory return to Rome?
(a) 1377.
(b) 1351.
(c) 1384.
(d) 1394.

7. Whom did the Genoese as for the French to fight with them?
(a) Algiers.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Tunis.

8. Who was Sir John Hawkwood?
(a) A brigand commander.
(b) An English lawyer.
(c) A famous pirate.
(d) A French landowner.

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

10. What did the Black Prince order his people to do in Limoges?
(a) Take possession of the library and art collections.
(b) Destroy the town and slaughter the people.
(c) Open a Roman Catholic school.
(d) Collect taxes.

11. Who ruled Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) The French.
(b) Brigands.
(c) Coucy.
(d) King Charles.

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

13. Who threatened to come to England with his helmet on and 60,000 men?
(a) Edward, the Black Knight.
(b) Philip of Spain.
(c) The Green Count.
(d) Pope Gregory XI.

14. What territories did Enguerrand want to acquire?
(a) Lorraine.
(b) Aquitaine.
(c) Hapsburg.
(d) Wales.

15. Charles of Navarre is arrested under suspicion of what?
(a) Plotting to poison the king.
(b) Murdering his brother-in-law.
(c) Plotting to murder his wife's father.
(d) Plotting to overthrow the king.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Catherine of Siena serve Christ?

3. How were women portrayed in 14th century literature?

4. How many guests turned out to welcome Roman Emperor Charles IV?

5. What did King Edward's daughter decide on her way to her wedding?

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