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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the housewife be especially careful in selecting food from the market?
(a) Many merchants try to dilute their goods to increase their profit.
(b) Poisonous food is rampant in the area.
(c) Food prices vary greatly depending on market conditions.
(d) Their burgher husbands have very particular tastes.

2. What might a dying man request as a form of penitence?
(a) To be set upon a raft made out of ebony wood.
(b) To dip his coins and other property into a vat of boiling oil.
(c) To drink the blood of an ox.
(d) To lie down on a hair cloth.

3. What disaster befalls Troyes in 1188?
(a) A bad flood.
(b) A crop failure and famine.
(c) An outbreak of plague.
(d) A large fire.

4. Why are Jews in a precarious position in Troyes?
(a) Royals may decree to ban Jews at any time.
(b) The Church actively hunts Jews in order to convert them.
(c) The Jews depend on the spice trade, which is sometimes interrupted.
(d) Their temples are constantly vandalized.

5. How is a baby dressed until it can walk?
(a) With very tight wrappings.
(b) All in white, in the hopes that a witch cannot hurt him/her.
(c) With a loose-fitting dress.
(d) The baby is left naked until it can walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shillings make up one pound?

2. Which of the following is NOT a step taken in siege mining?

3. When is a Caesarian section typically performed in the case of a woman giving birth?

4. What is usury?

5. Which of the following is NOT a member category in a guild?

(see the answer key)

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