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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?

2. What did the church teach about life on earth?

3. What was Enguerrange III known for?

4. When did Jean II take the throne of France?

5. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dauphin Charles ordain during Jean II's captivity?

2. What is the relationship between the rich and poor in 14th-century France?

3. What is the relationship between the king and the church in 14th-century France?

4. Describe Jean II's ascent to the throne and his war with the English.

5. What is the status of knights, and what is the state of military combat in 14th-century France?

6. What is the relationship between the classes like in 14th-century France?

7. What are colleges like in 14th-century France?

8. How do people try to protect themselves from the plague?

9. What is the relationship between the church and science in 14th-century France?

10. Describe education in 14th-century France.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The French fought many battles against the English, but they also fought the Hapsburgs in Alsace, rebels in Flanders, and the Berbers in Tunis. Describe the difference between warfare against a distant city like Tunis and warfare against people closer by, like the Alsatians or the Flemish. How did the French undertake these campaigns differently? What was at stake in each kind of war?

Essay Topic 2

Tuchman describes a number of ways that societies in the fourteenth century disposed of superfluous people, in wars, in plagues, in the Inquisition. Analyze these squanderings, and describe the value society placed on human life in the fourteenth century. Why couldn't society find uses for these "extras"? Why were warfare and the Inquisition the best ways to dispose of them? Did anyone try to put the masses to better uses? What was the state of technology, that there were so many extra people? What was the state of agricultural production, to feed so many people?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Enguerrand's life a representative life for the times? In what ways was it not? Who else's life might have been more representative of the times?

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