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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the people who built the castle of Coucy allow for the people inside the castle to provide for themselves during a siege?
(a) They built installed a system of early detection for invaders.
(b) They enclosed the surrounding farmland in walls as well.
(c) They built a network of underground entrances.
(d) They built a moat around the castle for water.

3. Charles of Navarre is arrested under suspicion of what?
(a) Murdering his brother-in-law.
(b) Plotting to poison the king.
(c) Plotting to overthrow the king.
(d) Plotting to murder his wife's father.

4. Who threatened to come to England with his helmet on and 60,000 men?
(a) Pope Gregory XI.
(b) The Green Count.
(c) Edward, the Black Knight.
(d) Philip of Spain.

5. What was increasing as the fourteenth century progressed?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Agricultural production.
(c) Infant mortality.
(d) Warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of the agreement between the Third Estate and Dauphin Charles?

2. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?

3. What were many people waiting for during the plague years?

4. What caused the bourgeoisie to come to a peaceful settlement in regard to the King's tax policy?

5. What did people believe about the plague?

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