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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 responsibility did Coucy assume when King Charles died?

2. What did Gerard Groote found?

3. Where did Pope Urban govern Italy from?

4. What city did the papal forces fail to take under Gregory XI?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lionel, Duke of Clarence's wedding to Violante Visconti.

2. Describe the marriage of Isabella and Enguerrand.

3. Why do the English commoners revolt, and how does Richard II quell their rebellion?

4. Describe the Genoese expedition to Tunis.

5. What are conditions like in England in 1376?

6. What happens when Charles goes mad?

7. How does Charles try to win the good will of his people?

8. What difficulties is France experiencing at the time of King Charles's death?

9. Describe Enguerrand's campaign in Alsace.

10. How is the Black Death handled when it returns in 1373-74?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How mobile were people in the fourteenth century? Enguerrand fought wars from England to Tunis, but how many people enjoyed this degree of mobility? Is the idea of a small town local life in the fourteenth century a myth, or was it the reality for a large portion of the people?

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

What was the role of women in 14th-century France? Analyze the role of women in French and English culture.

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