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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT an assurance guaranteed to merchants by Troyes during the fair?
(a) Guarantees against cheaters who dilute their wares.
(b) Recourse against debtors.
(c) The guarantee to sell their goods at a certain minimum.
(d) Protection against robbers.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a right granted to citizens by a charter.
(a) The ability to negotiate military service with the feudal lord.
(b) The freedom to handle justice for certain crimes.
(c) The freedom from a variety of feudal taxes.
(d) The right to religious freedom of expression.

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

7. What is an example of "eye for an eye" justice?
(a) Death by hanging.
(b) A liar having his tongue cut out.
(c) A lengthy prison term.
(d) Crucifixion.

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

9. What disaster befalls Troyes in 1184?
(a) A bad flood.
(b) A crop failure and famine.
(c) An outbreak of plague.
(d) A large fire.

10. Which of the following is NOT a step taken in siege mining?
(a) Digging under a wall.
(b) Using dynamite on wall support beams.
(c) Setting fire to wooden supports of the mine.
(d) Catching the fire above the siege mine on fire.

11. What is the literal translation of Rutebeuf?
(a) Rough ox.
(b) Red beef.
(c) Rude bagel.
(d) Sex-changing hyena.

12. What is the most expensive and sought-after commodity of the High Middle Ages?
(a) Spices.
(b) Animal hides.
(c) Iron.
(d) Oil.

13. In 1250, church organs had which of the following characteristics?
(a) Cumbersome and difficult to play.
(b) The need for three people to properly operate it.
(c) Very simplistic, and easy to play.
(d) The ability to imitate forest animals like birds and bears.

14. Educated wanderers who developed an irreverent brand of Latin verse were known as what?
(a) Troyes.
(b) Grammarians.
(c) Goliards.
(d) Jongleurs.

15. Which author is depended upon for the central texts to teach grammar in the cathedral school?
(a) Cato the Elder.
(b) Donatus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the five universities of northwest Europe as of 1250?

2. "The Prophets" is an example of what?

3. What are communes?

4. What do the Keepers of the Fair do?

5. What subject did Geoffroi de Villehardouin base his masterpiece on?

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