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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1250, who lives in the Viscount's Tower?
(a) The Count of Champagne.
(b) The Viscount.
(c) Several merchant families.
(d) The Bishop of Troyes.

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

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

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. The wool in Troyes primarily comes from which region?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Persia.

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

7. What time period is covered by the book?
(a) From 250 BC to 800 AD.
(b) From Roman times to the middle of the 13th century.
(c) From the time of Socrates to the time of the American Revolution.
(d) From 800 AD to 900 AD.

8. What two general sections is Troyes divided into?
(a) The north and the south.
(b) The Latin quarter and the French quarter.
(c) The east and the west.
(d) The old city and the new city.

9. Which might be a restriction against two people being married?
(a) Either one is a former criminal.
(b) They are too old.
(c) Differences in education level.
(d) They are too closely related by blood.

10. What is the church's position on most games and entertainments?
(a) These activities are necessary to overall emotional health.
(b) The church states no opinion on these activities.
(c) These activities are sinful and forbidden.
(d) These activities are sinful, but permitted on Tuesdays.

11. How many shillings make up one pound?
(a) 5.
(b) 200.
(c) 20.
(d) 85.

12. What must a Jew wear to identify his or her religion?
(a) An iron necklace with the star of David.
(b) A yellow circle.
(c) A red pentagram.
(d) A black and white armband.

13. How many deniers make up one shilling?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 100.
(d) 2.

14. Which of the following is NOT one of the tools of a midwife?
(a) Soothing words.
(b) A hammer and awl.
(c) Magical intonations.
(d) Jasper stone.

15. How wide are Troyes' city walls?
(a) 1 feet.
(b) 8 feet.
(c) 4 feet.
(d) 15 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an activity commonly performed by jongleurs?

2. Approximately how many doctors are there in the Troyes of 1250?

3. What is the most profitable type of fabric in 1250 Troyes?

4. What is the difference between Jewish money lenders and Christian money lenders?

5. What does a fuller do?

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