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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 territories did Enguerrand want to acquire?

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

3. Why were Enguerrand's men ultimately discouraged?

4. Whom did the Genoese as for the French to fight with them?

5. What did the commoners do when King Charles died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bad news do the English get during their one-year truce with France?

2. What are conditions like in England in 1376?

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

4. What conflicts take place in Italy after Robert's reign?

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

6. Describe Catherine of Siena's personality and her influence on the Pope.

7. Describe Enguerrand's actions against Charles of Navarre.

8. What are marriages typically like in 14th-century France?

9. Describe Buckingham's expedition to France shortly before the French king's death.

10. Describe Enguerrand's campaign in Alsace.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect Enguerrand's death had on the Coucy estate. How did he leave it? Had he improved it? Had it fallen apart? How had Enguerrand prepared his successor? Did those who assumed responsibility for the estate reflect his same values?

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

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.

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