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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How tall are Troyes' city walls?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 4 feet.

3. How is wire made by a blacksmith?
(a) Sending metal through a complicated system of grates.
(b) Manual twisting with tongs.
(c) A mill wheel-type device that crushes metal.
(d) By sending metal through smaller and smaller holes.

4. What is the right of coinage?
(a) The right to print and mint currency.
(b) The right to engage in money lending.
(c) The right to buy property.
(d) The right to tell stories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deniers make up one shilling?

2. Why is it wise to restrict a baby's movements after birth, according to medieval wisdom?

3. What is the solar?

4. What is a woman in 1250 NOT allowed to do?

5. What is the donjon of the Count's Castle used for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What series of events led to the "Dark Ages?"

2. Describe a typical marriage ceremony.

3. Who is a midwife, and what techniques might she use in her profession?

4. How is wool processed?

5. How do doctors of the 13th century differ from doctors of the Dark Ages a few centuries earlier?

6. Describe what a blacksmith does.

7. Describe a typical dinner in Troyes in 1250.

8. What are some typical household duties a wife or her servant is expected to perform?

9. What are the purposes of fireplaces in Troyes?

10. How is a woman restricted in medieval society?

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