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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. Where were Jews burned inside a house in a plague town?

3. Who led the Third Estate of Paris while Jean II was a captive of the English?

4. What resulted from the depopulation of Europe during the plague?

5. Which figures in the church offered believers solace?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Pastoreaux?

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

3. Describe the Jacquerie rebellion.

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

5. How are taxes collected in Coucy?

6. How does the plague affect Europe's economy and society?

7. What was the relationship between the church and the Knights Templar?

8. What technology affects the living arrangements in the 14th century?

9. What is the relationship between the military and money?

10. Describe the 14th-century French entertainment that involved cats.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kings often times had difficulty raising money to pay for their armies. Analyze the strategies kings used--taxation, devaluation, conquest, pillage--to describe the finances of warfare in the fourteenth century.

Essay Topic 2

Peasant uprisings were a perennial problem in Europe. Why were peasants unhappy, and what did they gain by rioting? Did the peasant rebellions contribute to an improvement of the peasants' situation, or did the nature of feudalism change for other reasons?

Essay Topic 3

Enguerrand was caught between two sets of loyalties, to England and France, and he served as an envoy between the two countries. What was the role of diplomacy in 14th-century politics? What tools besides war did political figures and monarchs use to enforce their wills and desires?

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