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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is time kept throughout the day in Troyes?
(a) A large sundial in the middle of town is referred to.
(b) The Count's Castle has an official timekeeper.
(c) The church rings bells at three-hour intervals.
(d) The church rings bells every hour on the hour.

2. How does a typical woman's education compare with a typical man's education?
(a) Women and men have the same level of education.
(b) Women are generally more educated than men.
(c) Women are generally less educated than men.
(d) A man's and woman's education are so different, they are impossible to compare.

3. What is a garderobe?
(a) A fashionable high-collared dress.
(b) A toilet located next to the sleeping room.
(c) A garden pest that ruins vegetable patches.
(d) A high official in the Church.

4. What is a consignment?
(a) The right to purchase all the wool for a particular person or organization.
(b) The process in which the church appoints a bishop to a particular town.
(c) The property given over from the bride's family to the groom.
(d) A process in which wine is distilled.

5. What is "churching?"
(a) The process involving a lay person joining the church clergy.
(b) The process of baptizing a stillborn child.
(c) The process whereby a recently pregnant woman is allowed back into society.
(d) The process of going house to house caroling during Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author is depended upon for the central texts to teach rhetoric in the cathedral school?

2. What color is untreated glass from the 13th century?

3. Why is curriculum referred to as the liberal arts?

4. What structure is common to all floors of a burghers' home?

5. What is a windlass?

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