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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Coucy do in 1368?
(a) Coucy granted freedom to 22 towns.
(b) Coucy levied high taxes on his people to pay to be rid of the army passing through.
(c) Coucy returned to England for Enguerrand's marriage.
(d) Coucy marched with an army to Spain.

3. Enguerrand was named as a second in a force that joined Genoa against what country?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Barbary.
(c) Algiers.
(d) England.

4. How were women portrayed in 14th century literature?
(a) As whores or angels.
(b) As saints.
(c) As unfit and deceptive.
(d) As virtuous and spiritual.

5. Who did Enguerrand ally himself with?
(a) The Green Count.
(b) King Charles.
(c) Pope Gregory XI.
(d) The Black Knight.

6. What did Philip van Artevelde order in Ghent when there were revolts?
(a) Massacre of men and boys.
(b) Raising of taxes.
(c) Distribution of food and fixing of prices.
(d) Ordering the townspeople into exile.

7. How did the Genoese present their request for French military assistance?
(a) As a conquest.
(b) As a crusade.
(c) As an inquisition.
(d) As a holy obligation.

8. What book did people typically carry in the courts?
(a) The Book of Hours.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Caesar's Gallic Wars.
(d) Ovid's Metamorphoses.

9. What does Enguerrand receive in return for ensuring that his men will not pillage?
(a) Land to distribute to his officers.
(b) Payments from the Italians.
(c) Promises of land.
(d) Payments from the French.

10. How did Pierre de Luxembourg attain canonization?
(a) By dying at six.
(b) By renouncing the flesh at age six.
(c) By bearing the stigmata.
(d) By healing the sick as a child.

11. What were many people waiting for during the plague years?
(a) A cure for the plague.
(b) The end of time.
(c) Papal intercession.
(d) Total war.

12. What turn of events allowed Enguerrand's forces to defeat Visconti's?
(a) Visconti's mercenaries turned to looting.
(b) Enguerrand's forces received last-minute reinforcements.
(c) Enguerrand paid Visconti's forces not to fight or to fight against Visconti.
(d) Visconti's forces were pushed into the lake.

13. Why were Enguerrand's men ultimately discouraged?
(a) Lack of food and plunder.
(b) Low pay.
(c) Constant guerilla-style harassment.
(d) A string of losses.

14. Who condemned Enguerrand's sale of dynastic property?
(a) Froissart.
(b) Wenceslas IV.
(c) Count Guy de Blois.
(d) Isabeau.

15. When did Enguerrand marry Isabelle?
(a) 1365.
(b) 1383.
(c) 1347.
(d) 1386.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the papal forces fail to take under Gregory XI?

2. Who was Sir John Hawkwood?

3. Whom did the Genoese as for the French to fight with them?

4. What did the commoners do when King Charles died?

5. Why was Louis II's marriage to Bernabo Visconti's daughter annulled?

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