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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are more susceptible to the black plague?
(a) The aristocrats.
(b) The knights.
(c) The poor.
(d) The clergy.

2. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?
(a) By devaluing the coinage.
(b) By increasing taxation.
(c) By borrowing from the Swiss.
(d) By selling indulgences.

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

4. What was the effect of mercenaries on the French countryside?
(a) They collected taxes with violence.
(b) They protected the towns from invaders.
(c) They brought peace and allowed prosperity to take hold.
(d) They wrought havoc on the population.

5. How did wealthy people display their wealth in the 14th century?
(a) By owning slaves.
(b) By traveling abroad.
(c) By displaying tapestries.
(d) By paying taxes.

6. What technology was revolutionizing warfare in the 14th century?
(a) Poison gas.
(b) Artillery.
(c) Longbows and guns.
(d) Observation balloons.

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

8. Who led the Third Estate of Paris while Jean II was a captive of the English?
(a) Charles of Navarre.
(b) Etienne Marcel.
(c) Philip Vi.
(d) Dauphin Charles.

9. When did Herve built the first castle in Coucy?
(a) 841.
(b) 910.
(c) 1223.
(d) 713.

10. What new technology became a metaphor for an organized universe?
(a) The railroad.
(b) The vaccine.
(c) The steam engine.
(d) The mechanical clock.

11. Whom did the Jacquerie choose as their leader?
(a) Guillaume Karle.
(b) Gaston Phoebus.
(c) Captal de Buch.
(d) Charles of Navarre.

12. Whom did the Jacquerie kill?
(a) Peasants.
(b) Knights and nobles.
(c) Clergy.
(d) The pope.

13. What was the result of the agreement between the Third Estate and Dauphin Charles?
(a) Tax increases become solely the king's prerogative.
(b) The king would abdicate and parliament would rule.
(c) France would submit to England.
(d) The king would live more frugally.

14. 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.

15. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?
(a) Enguerrand III.
(b) Abbot Guibert.
(c) Comte d-Eudes.
(d) Aubry de Coucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

2. Where are young women taught?

3. What happened to the church during the plague years in the 14th century?

4. How did the 14th century begin?

5. What belief among the people allowed the church to maintain its position and make money?

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