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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. Jean de Joinville, author of the second book, grew up as a powerful figure in that he was Lord of Joinville when?
(a) As a small child.
(b) In his later years.
(c) As a young adult.
(d) In his early teens.

2. The Doge makes what offer, if the French agree to pay five marks per horse and two marks per man?
(a) Leave for Jerusalem immediately.
(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) Surrender the city to the Crusaders.

3. Villehardouin and Comte Hugues are chosen to travel to meet some of the defecting barons to do what?
(a) Attempt to bring them back to Paris.
(b) Attempt to convince them to leave for Cairo.
(c) Attempt to convert them.
(d) Attempt to bring them back to Venice.

4. The expedition would travel to Cairo to crush the Turks first, and would meet in Venice by when in 1202?
(a) Saint John's Day.
(b) Saint Thomas's Day.
(c) Saint Joseph's Day.
(d) Saint Matthew's Day.

5. 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) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Crusaders send an envoy into Constantinople to ask the new Emperor to do what?

2. Once the two men meet, what happens between Baudouin and the Marquis?

3. In Constantinople, Prince Issac and his son Alexius escape from whom?

4. As Henri's army moves toward the city, they are sidetracked again by Lascaris' attack on Nicomedia, and move to save their soldiers hiding in what church?

5. When was Villehardouin born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the barons want from the Doge of Venice? What is the Doge's response?

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

3. How did King Louis IX end up taking up the cross and joining the crusade?

4. What is Murzuphlus' fate?

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

6. How does the French army respond to the Emperor's questioning regarding the attack by the French?

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

8. What do the Crusaders do when the Emperor Alexius flees?

9. What happens after Johanitza flees and leads to Johanitza's capture?

10. What is known about the first chronicle?

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