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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the donjon of the Count's Castle used for?
(a) To imprison political prisoners and debtors.
(b) It is home to many merchant families.
(c) Baptisms.
(d) Ceremonies and jousting tournaments.

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

3. What are common maladies in the 13th century?
(a) Bird flu.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Skin diseases.
(d) Smallpox.

4. Approximately how many doctors are there in the Troyes of 1250?
(a) 100.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

5. Why do craftsmen frequently work in full view of the public?
(a) Because that is church policy.
(b) So that everyone can see their skill.
(c) Because that is the policy of the Count of Champagne.
(d) In a show of honesty required by the merchants' guild.

6. How many people share a wine cup during dining?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) The entire table drinks from the same cup.
(d) Just one.

7. What is a superstition about childbirth mentioned in the text?
(a) A jongleur is made to attend the birth to ensure the child has a happy rather than sad disposition.
(b) The time of birth must be recorded exactly, which can be used to predict the child's future.
(c) The woman's face is covered with a cloth during childbirth, as it is considered ill fortune for a woman to witness the birth of her own child.
(d) Very particular lute music is played prior to and during birth, so the child will not be born deaf.

8. Why do housewives frequently refrain from wearing makeup or wigs?
(a) Makeup and wigs contain unhealthy and allergic materials.
(b) Burghers prefer their wives to be natural beauties.
(c) The wearing of make up or wigs is frowned upon by the church.
(d) There is a common fear that such "disguises" bring bad luck.

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

10. What is Latin for "a place where people congregate inside walls?"
(a) Publico.
(b) Civitas.
(c) Ars.
(d) Bourghas.

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

12. When is a child baptized ideally?
(a) At one year of age.
(b) At two weeks' of age.
(c) On their fifth birthday.
(d) On the first day of birth.

13. Which of the following is NOT done in the counting room?
(a) Greeting of customers.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Bookkeeping.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives in the Count's Castle?

2. What is consanguinity?

3. What is a consignment?

4. Which of the following is NOT a function of guilds?

5. Which of the following is a typical play activity for young children?

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