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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between the two types of plague?
(a) One would leave a person pockmarked.
(b) One would affect the eyes.
(c) The length of time before death.
(d) One could be survived.

2. How did the poor organize to oppose the influence of the rich?
(a) They formed labor unions.
(b) They formed militias.
(c) They held town hall meetings.
(d) They formed brotherhoods.

3. When did the Dauphin reinstate the chancellors and dismiss the Grand Council?
(a) 1357.
(b) 1355.
(c) 1351.
(d) 1361.

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

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

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

7. When was the castle of Coucy built?
(a) 1223.
(b) 1323.
(c) 1332.
(d) 1232.

8. How did people explain the advent of the plague?
(a) Planetary alignments.
(b) Centralization of power in governments.
(c) Unpaid debts.
(d) Corruption in the church.

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

10. Where were Jews burned inside a house in a plague town?
(a) London.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Basel.
(d) Berlin.

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

12. What happened to the leader who accepted an invitation to parley with Charles of Navarre?
(a) He was turned into a double agent who betrayed the peasants.
(b) He negotiated a peaceful conclusion to hostilities.
(c) He was captured and executed.
(d) He was exiled.

13. What resulted from the depopulation of Europe during the plague?
(a) Labor was cheaper.
(b) Knights returned to their estates.
(c) Factories sprang up.
(d) Rents decreased.

14. What did Edward hope to get by keeping Jean II captive?
(a) Leverage to extract concessions from Philip VI.
(b) French land.
(c) Ransom from France.
(d) An alliance with Charles of Navarre.

15. Where are the sons of the poor sent when they reach an age to learn a trade?
(a) To apprentice with a craftsman.
(b) To work for distant relatives.
(c) To serve in the military.
(d) To study at a university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a knight's work in the 14th century?

2. When would a child learn combat?

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

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

5. How did Philip the Fair prove his claims of heresy against the Templars?

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