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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lives in the attic of a home?
(a) Servants and apprentices.
(b) The children.
(c) The burgher and his wife.
(d) The attic is a guest room for customers.

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

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

4. What is the highest title a merchant can hope to obtain?
(a) Sire.
(b) Count.
(c) Esquire.
(d) Duke.

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

6. Who are the only types of people not allowed to be married?
(a) Jongleurs.
(b) Heathens.
(c) Jews.
(d) The extremely poor.

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

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

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

10. What is a lying-in chamber?
(a) The sleeping quarters for the burgher and his wife.
(b) A room reserved for a pregnant woman giving birth.
(c) The sleeping quarters for the servants.
(d) An interrogation room for criminals.

11. What are the majority of homes in Troyes made from?
(a) Timber.
(b) Iron.
(c) Adobe.
(d) Stone.

12. Who lives in the Count's Castle?
(a) No one.
(b) The Count of Champagne.
(c) The Viscount.
(d) The Bishop of Troyes.

13. 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 drink the blood of an ox.
(c) To lie down on a hair cloth.
(d) To dip his coins and other property into a vat of boiling oil.

14. What is the solar?
(a) Church.
(b) Conservatory.
(c) Cloak room.
(d) Dining hall.

15. According to the manners of the time, how should bread be consumed?
(a) It is polite to make loud noises when eating bread.
(b) Bread is reserved as the very last food item consumed.
(c) The pinkie finger must not touch the bread.
(d) It should be broken rather than bitten off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "churching?"

2. Which of the following is NOT a member category in a guild?

3. Why must the housewife be especially careful in selecting food from the market?

4. What is the church's position on most games and entertainments?

5. Who is a wet nurse?

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