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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the 14th century begin?
(a) With increases in agricultural production.
(b) With large-scale wars.
(c) With a plague.
(d) With a population increase.

2. How did wealthy men create a base of commerce at Coucy?
(a) They sold their support to the landowners.
(b) They taxed the people and imported spices from India with the proceeds.
(c) They sent overland cargo transports to Italy and the East.
(d) They used the port as a center for foreign trade.

3. Which parties were in political conflict in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) The clergy and rulers.
(b) Aristocrats and rulers.
(c) Rulers and merchants.
(d) Rulers and the freemen.

4. Why did nobles neglect to condemn the luxuries of the clergy?
(a) Because the clergy still lived relatively Spartan existences.
(b) Because the nobles profited from the clergy's decadence.
(c) Because the clergy was more powerful than the nobles.
(d) Because the nobility and clergy needed each other.

5. How many people lived in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the castle of Coucy built?

2. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?

3. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

4. What was a typical penance imposed in the beginning of the 14th century?

5. Who founded an Augustinian monastery in Coucy?

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