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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. Who pleaded with the pope for Church reform?

2. What does Anjou offer in return for safe passage back to France?

3. How did the French try to take the Saracens' city?

4. Who was the first child of Kind Edward and Queen Philippa?

5. Who began to mint his own money upon news that the King of France was heading to Rome to make peace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when the Roman Empire fell?

2. Describe the marriage of Isabella and Enguerrand.

3. What difficulties does Enguerrand encounter in remaining neutral between England and France?

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

5. Describe Enguerrand's campaign in Alsace.

6. Who is Philip van Artevelde and what is his role?

7. What bad news do the English get during their one-year truce with France?

8. What is Enguerrand VI's reign like for the peasants?

9. How does Charles try to win the good will of his people?

10. Describe Catherine of Siena's personality and her influence on the Pope.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the methods and strategies used in war in the 14th-century France? Analyze the armed conflicts that are described in "A Distant Mirror" and describe the patterns and themes of armed conflict. Who typically fought? Nations, states, regions, families? How did they fight? What did they fight over?

Essay Topic 2

How did feudalism change during the course of the fourteenth century in France? Cite the specific policies and leaders whose decisions changed the nature of feudalism, but also describe the social and economic influences that forced it to change.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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