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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jean II do immediately upon taking the throne of France?

2. How did Dauphin Charles try to raise money?

3. When was the castle of Coucy built?

4. Who was accused of poisoning wells?

5. Who arranged for the release of Charles of Navarre?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the 14th-century French entertainment that involved cats.

2. What is the relation of the king to the nobles?

3. What technology affects the living arrangements in the 14th century?

4. How are the Jews treated in 14th-century France?

5. What was the relationship between the church and the Knights Templar?

6. Describe the Jacquerie rebellion.

7. Describe the reputation of the estate at Coucy.

8. Describe the castle at Coucy.

9. How is love practiced in 14th-century France?

10. How are taxes collected in Coucy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kings often times had difficulty raising money to pay for their armies. Analyze the strategies kings used--taxation, devaluation, conquest, pillage--to describe the finances of warfare in the fourteenth century.

Essay Topic 2

Tuchman describes a number of ways that societies in the fourteenth century disposed of superfluous people, in wars, in plagues, in the Inquisition. Analyze these squanderings, and describe the value society placed on human life in the fourteenth century. Why couldn't society find uses for these "extras"? Why were warfare and the Inquisition the best ways to dispose of them? Did anyone try to put the masses to better uses? What was the state of technology, that there were so many extra people? What was the state of agricultural production, to feed so many people?

Essay Topic 3

Enguerrand was caught between two sets of loyalties, to England and France, and he served as an envoy between the two countries. What was the role of diplomacy in 14th-century politics? What tools besides war did political figures and monarchs use to enforce their wills and desires?

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