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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The papacy after Gregory was disputed between whom?
(a) Clement and Charles.
(b) Urban and Clement.
(c) Visconti.
(d) Gregory and Urban.

2. What reason did Enguerrand give for wanting to stop fighting?
(a) He wanted to be made Pope.
(b) He wanted to see to his estate and his business.
(c) He wanted to travel.
(d) He wanted to return to his family.

3. What did England lose when a ship carrying money was sunk in a naval battle?
(a) Its naval supremacy.
(b) The loyalty of its troops.
(c) Its secure hold on Aquitaine.
(d) Its chance of peace with France.

4. How were the English forces paid during their campaign in France?
(a) In pillage.
(b) In Spanish gold.
(c) In land on returning home.
(d) In women and slaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Coucy do in 1368?

2. What did the Cardinal do when Anjou took the throne?

3. What did King Charles focus on as his health began to decline?

4. How were women portrayed in 14th century literature?

5. Why is a knight loyal to the queen when the king is absent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Charles of Navarre die?

2. What luxuries do the nobility indulge in?

3. What difficulties is France experiencing at the time of King Charles's death?

4. Why do the English commoners revolt, and how does Richard II quell their rebellion?

5. Describe the problem of brigands in the French countryside.

6. Describe Roman Emperor Charles IV's visit to Paris.

7. What are marriages typically like in 14th-century France?

8. Describe Lionel, Duke of Clarence's wedding to Violante Visconti.

9. Describe Buckingham's expedition to France shortly before the French king's death.

10. How is Charles almost killed during his pilgrimage of thanks?

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