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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 through 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were women portrayed in 14th century literature?
(a) As virtuous and spiritual.
(b) As whores or angels.
(c) As saints.
(d) As unfit and deceptive.

2. What responsibility did Coucy assume when King Charles died?
(a) He assumed responsibility for Coucy.
(b) He became England's embassador to France.
(c) He was charged with capturing Hawkwood.
(d) He commanded the forces at Picardy.

3. How common was it for women to earn wages?
(a) Only lower-class women could work.
(b) Fairly common.
(c) Rare.
(d) Women could only work in certain restricted trades.

4. Where are young women taught?
(a) In cities.
(b) At home.
(c) In the universities.
(d) In women's schools.

5. Under what condition was sex permitted in the mid-fourteenth century?
(a) Pornography.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Procreation.
(d) Self-discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What territory did the King of England send Enguerrand to conquer?

2. When did Enguerrand marry Isabelle?

3. How does Catherine of Siena serve Christ?

4. What threat confronted people in the countryside of Europe in the 1360s?

5. How many people died of the black plague?

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