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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Tartars described?
(a) As intelligent.
(b) As savages.
(c) As strange.
(d) As scary.

2. While there, he hears a sermon from Brother Hugues, who advises him to do what?
(a) Return to battle.
(b) Convert the world to Christianity.
(c) Always be just, fair, and equal.
(d) Find peace with others.

3. Joinville gives several examples of phrases stated by Louis that show what?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His good teachings.
(c) His various interests.
(d) His greed.

4. He ends the dedication by noting that to take example from Louis would be to do what?
(a) Gain favor with God.
(b) Do what one is expected to do.
(c) Follow in the king's footsteps.
(d) Gain favor with Louis.

5. Joinville and his men attack a Turkish camp, only to find nearly how many Turks right outside the camp?
(a) Six thousand.
(b) Sixteen hundred.
(c) Sixteen thousand.
(d) Six hundred.

6. Joinville leaves his home to reach what city?
(a) Lyon.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Nice.
(d) Paris.

7. Eventually, the sultan and the king come to an agreement, wherein the king would surrender Damietta in exchange for what?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Baghdad.

8. Why is the king to return to France?
(a) His wife is lonely.
(b) His mother has died.
(c) He is ill.
(d) Out of fear of attack by England.

9. How does the king react during the battle when his brother is the first in danger?
(a) The king orders his men to surrender under the condition that his brother is allowed to go free.
(b) The king goes alone to save him.
(c) The king drives himself and his army into the area to save him.
(d) The king retreats as he orders his men to save his brother.

10. Joinville explains he himself is stricken with what, but recovers?
(a) Lung fever.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) The army disease.
(d) Yellow fever.

11. The Saracens move to Acre, and threaten what?
(a) The gardens of Baghdad.
(b) The gardens of Cairo.
(c) The gardens of Jerusalem.
(d) The gardens of Constantinople.

12. The king sends religious gifts to the nearby King of Tartars for what reason?
(a) He fears this king.
(b) He is friends with this king.
(c) In an attempt to recruit more followers.
(d) In an attempt to keep the peace.

13. Joinville gives another example of the king's humility, as he does what?
(a) Protects the poor.
(b) Gives thanks for his battles.
(c) Defends a clerk over his own seneschal.
(d) Gives money to the people of Jaffa.

14. A month later, the king gathers the barons again for what reason?
(a) They have not informed their knights of the next phase of attack.
(b) They are treating the enemy with cruelty.
(c) They have not paid their men.
(d) They have not yet obtained knights he needs to win the Crusade.

15. A sergeant calls for the troops to do what, as their king commands?
(a) Ask for a truce.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Keep fighting.
(d) Retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joinville finds he cannot pay his knights, what does the king offer to do?

2. The king agrees to do what for the release of himself and his men?

3. One evening, the Turks begin to shoot fireballs at the army, destroying what?

4. Oliver de Termes explains to Joinville how to do what?

5. Because of what reason do the Templars chase the Turks and kill many of them?

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