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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had King Charles promised on his deathbed?
(a) That the people would get to vote.
(b) That armies would be disbanded.
(c) That taxes would not be collected.
(d) That the monarchy would be dissolved.

2. Who was the first child of Kind Edward and Queen Philippa?
(a) Ferdinand.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Christine.
(d) Isabelle.

3. What turn of events allowed Enguerrand's forces to defeat Visconti's?
(a) Visconti's forces were pushed into the lake.
(b) Enguerrand's forces received last-minute reinforcements.
(c) Visconti's mercenaries turned to looting.
(d) Enguerrand paid Visconti's forces not to fight or to fight against Visconti.

4. What did King Edward's daughter decide on her way to her wedding?
(a) To become a poetess.
(b) To become a nun.
(c) To run away.
(d) Not to get married.

5. How many religious holidays did workers have to observe a year?
(a) 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

6. Why is Enguerrand torn when King Charles declares war in 1369?
(a) He is married into French nobility, but his wealth is in English companies.
(b) He is related to the English, but he is French.
(c) He will lose money no matter who wins the war.
(d) He had sworn allegiance to both nations.

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

8. How were the English forces paid during their campaign in France?
(a) In land on returning home.
(b) In pillage.
(c) In women and slaves.
(d) In Spanish gold.

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

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

11. What did England lose when a ship carrying money was sunk in a naval battle?
(a) The loyalty of its troops.
(b) Its naval supremacy.
(c) Its chance of peace with France.
(d) Its secure hold on Aquitaine.

12. How do the Saracens propose to settle the conflict with France?
(a) By siege.
(b) In full warfare.
(c) They want ten men from each side to fight.
(d) In single combat.

13. Why did mobs rush the Jewish quarter of the city?
(a) The Inquisition had made Jews seem threatening.
(b) The plague had made people superstitious, and they took it out on the Jews.
(c) Anjou had followed through on Charles's decision not to collect taxes.
(d) Money was in short supply and the mobs rioted.

14. When did Enguerrand marry Isabelle?
(a) 1386.
(b) 1347.
(c) 1365.
(d) 1383.

15. Whom does Enguerrard recommend when Charles nominates him for Constable?
(a) Someone more familiar with Brittany.
(b) Hawkwood.
(c) Philip.
(d) Visconti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Louis II's marriage to Bernabo Visconti's daughter annulled?

2. What was Enguerrand's relation to the English King?

3. What did Gerard Groote found?

4. When did England and France have a one-year peace?

5. Enguerrand was named as a second in a force that joined Genoa against what country?

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