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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. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?

2. What was increasing as the fourteenth century progressed?

3. What did people believe about the plague?

4. Who founded an Augustinian monastery in Coucy?

5. What was a knight's work in the 14th century?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are taxes collected in Coucy?

2. Describe Chaucer's visit to France.

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

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

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

6. Describe the Jacquerie rebellion.

7. Describe Jean II's captivity in England.

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

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

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

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

Compare and contrast the gap between rich and poor in the fourteenth century and the gap between rich and poor now. How are our times different from the fourteenth century's? How are they similar?

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