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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of the crusades?
(a) To convert all to Christianity.
(b) To return Europe to Christianity.
(c) To kill those who are not Christians.
(d) To capture the Holy City Jerusalem.

2. The people of Constantinople free Issac and do what with him?
(a) Send him home.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Crown him Emperor
(d) Give him gifts.

3. Where does Emperor Baudouin die?
(a) During a battle.
(b) In Johanitza's prisons.
(c) When abroad.
(d) In his home.

4. The Doge makes what offer, if the French agree to pay five marks per horse and two marks per man?
(a) Surrender the city to the Crusaders.
(b) To convert to Christianity and take up the cross.
(c) To build transports as well as ships for a fee of 85,000 marks, and to supply all with rations for nine months.
(d) Leave for Jerusalem immediately.

5. On the day of the main attack, what happens when the French attempt to scale the walls of the city?
(a) They are slowly driven back.
(b) They slowly take over the tower.
(c) They are quickly driven back.
(d) They quickly take over the tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around 1244, what promise did King Louis IX make to God?

2. The Greeks of Philippopolis send word to Johanitza that they will do what?

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

4. Simultaneously, a fleet of ships with hundreds of men sail through the Straits of Morocco to Venice, but these men, along with many others, failed to do what?

5. On reaching Cape Malia, they find two ships full of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the end result of the battle between King Johanitza and the French and Venetians?

2. What do the Greeks of Philippopolis ask of Johanitza? What is his response?

3. What happens when many men do not manage to arrive in Venice after Easter in 1202?

4. Describe what takes place when it is decided that an emperor must be elected.

5. Why does the new Emperor leave? What happens when he leaves?

6. What is known about Joinville's account of the crusade?

7. What happens after Henri captures Johanitza?

8. What happens to Thibaut? How do his followers react to his demands?

9. What is known about the first chronicle?

10. When Henri and his troops come to help the Greeks, what decision do they make? How does this battle with Johanitza end?

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