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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Anjou offer in return for safe passage back to France?
(a) The Loire Valley.
(b) Kent.
(c) Provence.
(d) Normandy.

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

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

6. How does Enguerrand resolve his conflicting obligations?
(a) He fights for England.
(b) He fights for France.
(c) He fights for England and hires a replacement to fight for France.
(d) He pleads neutrality.

7. What city did the papal forces fail to take under Gregory XI?
(a) Florence.
(b) Cesena.
(c) Bologna.
(d) Pisa.

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

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

10. What did Coucy do in 1368?
(a) Coucy returned to England for Enguerrand's marriage.
(b) Coucy levied high taxes on his people to pay to be rid of the army passing through.
(c) Coucy granted freedom to 22 towns.
(d) Coucy marched with an army to Spain.

11. Where did Pope Urban govern Italy from?
(a) Prussia.
(b) Madrid.
(c) London.
(d) Avignon.

12. What did Philip van Artevelde order in Ghent when there were revolts?
(a) Distribution of food and fixing of prices.
(b) Massacre of men and boys.
(c) Raising of taxes.
(d) Ordering the townspeople into exile.

13. Who assumes the Papacy after Gregory?
(a) Hawkwood.
(b) King Charles.
(c) Urban VI.
(d) Enguerrand.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who threatened to come to England with his helmet on and 60,000 men?

2. What did the Cardinal do when Anjou took the throne?

3. Whom does Enguerrard recommend when Charles nominates him for Constable?

4. How did Pierre de Luxembourg attain canonization?

5. Who condemned Enguerrand's sale of dynastic property?

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