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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a step taken in the preparation of a typical dinner?
(a) The wife must visit the butcher's to select a meat.
(b) Servants chop and blanch vegetables.
(c) Food must be taken to the cathedral to be blessed.
(d) Meats must be roasted in a communal oven.

2. What is NOT an activity commonly performed by jongleurs?
(a) Doing magic tricks.
(b) Telling stories of histories and legends.
(c) Holding political debates.
(d) Playing instruments.

3. What color is a burgher's house covered in upon his death?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

4. Wealthy burghers can expect to have a home of how many stories?
(a) They share a one-story home with another burgher.
(b) Four.
(c) Two and a half.
(d) One.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT done in the counting room?

2. How is mental illness treated by medieval doctors?

3. What is usury?

4. How much time does an apprentice generally spend learning his craft?

5. What did a doctor do for common wound and injuries?

(see the answer key)

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