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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Jean II take the throne of France?
(a) 1344.
(b) 1350.
(c) 1348.
(d) 1342.

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

3. Which figures in the church offered believers solace?
(a) The pope.
(b) The worshippers themselves.
(c) Patron saints.
(d) The bishops.

4. What was a knight's work in the 14th century?
(a) Politics.
(b) Policing the cities.
(c) Nation-building.
(d) Fighting.

5. What did the Jacquerie hold in May of 1358?
(a) An "indignation meeting."
(b) A constitutional convention.
(c) An open revolt.
(d) A secession meeting.

6. What answer is offered for anything that cannot be explained?
(a) Religion.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Science.

7. What organizations thrived during the plague years?
(a) Mystical sects.
(b) Churches.
(c) Knighthoods.
(d) Labor unions.

8. Where is the castle of Coucy located?
(a) Versailles.
(b) Rouen.
(c) Picardy.
(d) Nancy.

9. How did the church make money in the beginning of the 14th century?
(a) Taxing mercantile cities.
(b) Selling slaves and imports.
(c) Selling offices and imposing fines.
(d) Conquering foreign lands.

10. What became of Enguerrand's son, Thomas?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He was excommunicated.
(c) He was executed.
(d) He became a good leader.

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

12. Why were music and medicine lumped together in the 14th century?
(a) They both used resonance to heal.
(b) They both relied on mystical intervals of sound and tone.
(c) They both drew on the same spirits.
(d) They both aimed to harmonize the body.

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

14. Who founded an Augustinian monastery in Coucy?
(a) Archibishop Herve.
(b) Abbot Guibert.
(c) Aubry de Coucy.
(d) Comte d'Eudes.

15. How are the wealthy different from the poor in the age they marry?
(a) They typically take more than one wife at a time.
(b) They typically marry more than once.
(c) They are typically older.
(d) They are typically younger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jean kept during his captivity by the English?

2. When would a child learn combat?

3. How many people were considered nobles in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

4. Who built Coucy up in spite of being excommunicated?

5. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?

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