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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the avoir de poids?
(a) The footpath around Troyes.
(b) The part of a fair reserved for buying and selling of cloth.
(c) The part of a fair for commodities that must be weighed.
(d) The canal that separates the old city from the new city in Troyes.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the five universities of northwest Europe as of 1250?
(a) Paris.
(b) Oxford.
(c) London.
(d) Orleans.

3. Chretien de Troyes' works are the basis for what legend?
(a) The sack of Troy.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) The ugly duckling.
(d) Gilgamesh.

4. Who oversee the construction of cathedrals?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Priests.
(c) Bishops.
(d) The mayor of the town.

5. What is Troyes' lasting legacy, even today?
(a) The Troy Weight.
(b) The Troy Theory.
(c) The Maxim of Troy.
(d) The Trojan Horse.

6. Who rules Champagne in the year 1250?
(a) Queen Blanche.
(b) Thibaut the Great.
(c) Thibaut IV.
(d) Geoffroi de Villehardouin.

7. What is co-optation?
(a) The right for a feudal lord to seize property at any time.
(b) People in political offices choosing their own successors.
(c) The requirement for spice merchants to weigh their spice at a single, regulated location.
(d) Multiple families living in a single home.

8. What is the purpose of the flying buttress?
(a) It is a bawdy tale used by jongleurs to entertain guests.
(b) They are structures that support high cathedral ceilings.
(c) It is a coin used to inaugurate a new well or man-made pond.
(d) They are structures that make statues of the Virgin Mary appear to be flying.

9. What distinguishes the Roman legacy of justice?
(a) Duels, and the process of ordeals.
(b) Crimes are considered personal, rather than civil.
(c) The church system handles punishment.
(d) A system of lawyers, evidence, and testimony.

10. The tale "Flamenca" is an example of what type of book?
(a) Fabliaux.
(b) Romance.
(c) Transcription.
(d) Epic poem.

11. Which one of the following is NOT one of the subjects of the quadrivium?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Arithmetic.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Astronomy.

12. What are relics?
(a) Extremely elderly members of the clergy.
(b) Extremely elderly members of the congregation.
(c) Candles that help to illuminate statuary inside the church.
(d) The sacred physical remains of saints.

13. What might be a proper subject of a playlet?
(a) The reincarnation of Jesus.
(b) The adventures of a human-like fox creating mischief.
(c) The reality of a peasant being in debt.
(d) A bawdy tale of a cuckolded husband.

14. Why is pepper a highly-valued spice?
(a) It is associated with Saint John the Baptist, and is considered a relic.
(b) Because of its reported ability to cure leprosy.
(c) For its flavor, and its ability to preserve meat.
(d) Because the Persians will pay outlandish sums for the spice.

15. What were the financial consequences of Crusades?
(a) They ended with lucrative new spice trade routes.
(b) They introduced new kinds of currency into northwest Europe.
(c) They were usually extraordinarily profitable.
(d) They were usually spectacular failures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the Keeper of the Fair?

2. What is a thema, in the religious sense?

3. What is the computus?

4. What is a windlass?

5. Which of the following is NOT a tool of the bell founder?

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