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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 strange.
(b) As intelligent.
(c) As scary.
(d) As savages.

2. What does Louis believe is worse than anything?
(a) Being negative.
(b) Being lazy.
(c) Committing a mortal sin.
(d) Committing suicide.

3. Upon his return to France, what does the king issue?
(a) An ordinance to help him reform his country.
(b) An ordinance to help his country gain wealth.
(c) An ordinance to keep peace with his neighbors.
(d) An ordinance to join the Church of England.

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

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

6. Upon payment, the Comte de Poitiers is released. What do the Turks do with the sick French men in Damietta?
(a) They torture them.
(b) They free them.
(c) They enslave them.
(d) They kill them.

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) Baghdad.
(d) Jerusalem.

8. The people of Constantinople and the Comans become blood brothers, united against who?
(a) The Latins.
(b) The French.
(c) The Venetians.
(d) The Greeks.

9. What envoy has several encounters with those differing from the Christian faith?
(a) The envoy to the land of the Tartars.
(b) The envoy to the emirs of Egypt.
(c) The envoy to the Sultan of Damascus.
(d) The envoy to Mongolia.

10. Louis never does what after battles?
(a) Takes any of the bounty.
(b) Celebrates.
(c) Seems satisfied.
(d) Sleeps.

11. The king realizes the army is slowly dying off from illness, and determines what must happen?
(a) The war must end.
(b) They must fight one more time.
(c) They must be moved.
(d) The men must return to France.

12. Joinville tells a story of the bishop telling the king he should threaten those who have been excommunicated from the Church with what to lure them back to God?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) Seizure of their possessions.
(c) Excommunication.
(d) Torture.

13. Joinville gives most of the money to who for safe keeping?
(a) The king.
(b) His brother.
(c) His men.
(d) The church.

14. Who are soon rooted out of the kingdom?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) The poor.
(c) Non-Christians.
(d) Thieves and immoral politicians.

15. The new powers of the Turks do what with the terms of the release?
(a) They completely ignore them.
(b) They keep to the original agreement.
(c) They partially follow them.
(d) They renegotiate the terms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The king defends giving lands to the King of England by noting _________, and thus, should be respected.

3. The Sultan of Damascus calls his troops from Gaza and enters Egypt, where the emirs of Egypt make a truce. What does this do to the truce with Louis?

4. Joinville complains to the king that he is owed money by his employer, and the king does what for him?

5. The Egyptians send another envoy for what reason?

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