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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. What is an ecuelle?
(a) The salt shaker.
(b) A hunk of bread.
(c) A large fork.
(d) A bowl filled with stew or soup.

2. What is the widely-accepted currency in Troyes?
(a) Pounds.
(b) Marks.
(c) Deniers.
(d) Doubloons.

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

4. Who is a wet nurse?
(a) A doctor specializing in the fluids of the body.
(b) A magician who lives in the swamp.
(c) A woman who nurses another woman's baby.
(d) A woman who attends to drowning victims.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wealthy burghers can expect to have a home of how many stories?

2. How wide are Troyes' city walls?

3. What is "churching?"

4. How is a baby dressed until it can walk?

5. What must a Jew wear to identify his or her religion?

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