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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Sir Robert Knollys avoid being condemned for breaking the treaty with France?
(a) He threatened Edward with invasion.
(b) He gave the booty to Edward.
(c) He installed Edward as the king of the conquered lands.
(d) He arranged for Jean II to be killed.

2. Where did Sir Robert Knollys lead his army when he invaded France?
(a) The valley of the Loire.
(b) Paris.
(c) The Pyrennes.
(d) Normandy.

3. Who was Pope in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Phillip VI.
(b) John XXII.
(c) Clement III.
(d) Clement V.

4. What was a typical penance imposed in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Devoting one's children to the church.
(b) Flogging.
(c) Exile to Britain.
(d) A pilgrimage to Rome.

5. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?
(a) He exiled Enguerrand.
(b) He devalued money.
(c) He returned Calais to England.
(d) He beheaded Enguerrand.

6. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 40,000.

7. Who was the first "lord of Coucy"?
(a) Archibishop Herve.
(b) Aubry de Coucy.
(c) Comte d'Eudes.
(d) Abbot Guibert.

8. What were the first signs of the people rebelling against the church?
(a) The gap between rich and poor widened.
(b) The Papal tax collectors were attacked.
(c) Luddites destroy machinery in the textile indutry.
(d) Church attendance declined.

9. What was the castle of Coucy primarily built for?
(a) Foreign trade.
(b) A center for art and literature.
(c) A network of marketplaces.
(d) Withstanding a siege.

10. How were the dead buried who died of the plague?
(a) In expensive mausoleums.
(b) In individual graves.
(c) In shallow graves.
(d) In centralized cemetaries.

11. What would a wealthy child learn until the age of seven?
(a) Manners.
(b) Math.
(c) Trades.
(d) Morality.

12. When would a wealthy child be sent to another castle to serve as a page?
(a) At eleven.
(b) At sixteen.
(c) At fourteen.
(d) At seven.

13. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?
(a) Governor and jailer.
(b) Comforter and teacher.
(c) Protector and police.
(d) Prophet and mystic.

14. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Chaotic but largely plutocratic.
(b) Constantly unstable.
(c) A repressive dictatorship.
(d) Prosperous and democratic.

15. How was uncultivated land used when there weren't farmers to farm it?
(a) It was turned into preserves.
(b) It returned to wilderness.
(c) It was used for grazing sheep.
(d) It was logged.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the 14th century begin?

2. Why did nobles neglect to condemn the luxuries of the clergy?

3. What did the Pastoreaux do to oppose the Church?

4. Where is the castle of Coucy located?

5. How did the people who built the castle of Coucy allow for the people inside the castle to provide for themselves during a siege?

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