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

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

3. What is the Chartres mile?
(a) A route around the city of Chartres on which prisoners were paraded and heckled.
(b) A pattern of stones on the floor of the cathedral at Chartres.
(c) The mile-long road outside the city of Chartres.
(d) A way to measure yarn.

4. What language are church sermons given in?
(a) Latin.
(b) The vernacular.
(c) Aramaic.
(d) Greek.

5. Where are toilets located?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In the stable yard.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the solar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does an apprentice become a master?

2. What is the solar?

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

4. What is the right of coinage?

5. How might a pregnant woman influence the sex of her infant child, according to the prevailing wisdom?

(see the answer key)

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