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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 is the Chartres mile?
(a) A pattern of stones on the floor of the cathedral at Chartres.
(b) A route around the city of Chartres on which prisoners were paraded and heckled.
(c) The mile-long road outside the city of Chartres.
(d) A way to measure yarn.

2. What are communes?
(a) Long, slender tubes for glass blowing.
(b) Sewer canals that lead from Troyes to the nearby river.
(c) Special blacksmith anvils for working with gold.
(d) Cities which have negotiated charters.

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

4. What are fabliaux?
(a) Transcribed copies of the Bible.
(b) Long romance tales written in Latin.
(c) Short and often humorous folk tales written in verse.
(d) Fictionalized, humorous autobiographies.

5. Who handles crimes involving members of the clergy?
(a) The church system itself.
(b) The town council, via special session.
(c) A special commission of the peasantry.
(d) The feudal lord.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the catapult of the Middles Ages superior to its Roman ancestor?

2. When a siege occurs, who generally has the advantage?

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

4. How are books regarded in the 13th century?

5. Which of the following is NOT an assurance guaranteed to merchants by Troyes during the fair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subject did Rutebauf write about in his poetry?

2. What is the story of "L'Mystere d' Adam?"

3. Why do Crusades decrease in the 13th century and beyond?

4. Describe playlets. What are proper subjects for playlets?

5. How is the notion of sainthood changing in the middle of the 13th century?

6. How are Middle Ages masons inferior to Roman-era masons? How are they superior?

7. What are pilgrimages? What do people use them for?

8. What are the stages of a Troyes fair?

9. Why does a theater revival occur within the Church?

10. How happened to Troyes after 1250?

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