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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Muster-roll of the Fourth Crusade through Chapter 6, Discord in the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What leaves the army highly decreased in numbers?
(a) Many Barons escape.
(b) Confusion.
(c) War.
(d) Illness.

2. All the barons hold a conference, and send envoys to Venice to do what?
(a) Convert the Venetians.
(b) Gather supplies and aid.
(c) Fight the Venetians.
(d) Convince the Venetians to fight for Jerusalem.

3. Pope Innocent proclaims that anyone who takes up the cross as part of the army for how long will be free from all of their sins?
(a) One year.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

4. Back in Venice, the Venetians show the Franks the warships they have created. Why do the French find themselves short of the amount of money they owe?
(a) So many of the army have not appeared as planned.
(b) So many of the army did not convert as planned.
(c) So many of the army have died.
(d) So many of the army have become ill.

5. Geoffroy and his companions return to France to tell the news, while the others travel where to continue to rally support for the Crusade?
(a) To Genoa and Pisa.
(b) To Constantinople and Cairo.
(c) To Paris and Rome.
(d) To London and Nice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Villehardouin and Comte Hugues are chosen to travel to meet some of the defecting barons to do what?

2. Through the next several decades, the area was overrun by Turks, and won back by Christians when?

3. When did Villehardouin write the chronicle?

4. Shaw closes the introduction by noting that he has modernized the chronicles for what reason?

5. He notes that Villehardouin saw his crusade as what?

(see the answer key)

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