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

2. What immediately follows the sermon in a typical church service?
(a) The thema.
(b) The Offertory.
(c) The Gregorian chant.
(d) The Creed.

3. Many of Thibaut IV's love songs are about which woman?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Queen Blanche.
(c) The Duchess of Windsor.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

4. What is the avoir de poids?
(a) The canal that separates the old city from the new city in 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 footpath around Troyes.

5. What is a proper subject for a Rutebauf poem?
(a) A Bishop delivering a sermon.
(b) Intrigue at the court of Champagne.
(c) A peasant's horse breaking a leg.
(d) A queen wandering her royal garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an example of "eye for an eye" justice?

2. Which of the following is NOT an option for a graduated university student of the Middle Ages?

3. When does the "Hot Fair" of Troyes occur?

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

5. What language were the earliest playlets conducted in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Middle Ages teaching methods.

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

3. What are theories of justice based upon in the 13th century?

4. What are the stages of a Troyes fair?

5. What disasters occur in Troyes in the 1180s?

6. How happened to Troyes after 1250?

7. Who are the Goliards?

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

9. How does a typical famine begin and progress?

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

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