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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a wet nurse?
(a) A magician who lives in the swamp.
(b) A woman who nurses another woman's baby.
(c) A doctor specializing in the fluids of the body.
(d) A woman who attends to drowning victims.

2. What is an ecuelle?
(a) The salt shaker.
(b) A hunk of bread.
(c) A bowl filled with stew or soup.
(d) A large fork.

3. Who are the only types of people not allowed to be married?
(a) Jews.
(b) Heathens.
(c) Jongleurs.
(d) The extremely poor.

4. Who lives in the Count's Castle?
(a) The Bishop of Troyes.
(b) The Viscount.
(c) No one.
(d) The Count of Champagne.

5. What accounts for varying degrees of quality in iron, as fashioned by a blacksmith?
(a) Ashes from the fire that leave carbon in the metal.
(b) The quality of a blacksmith's hammer and anvil.
(c) Charcoal smelting that leaves carbon in the metal.
(d) Charcoal smelting that leaves copper in the metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the widely-accepted currency in Troyes?

2. According to medieval medicine, how many "humors" are there in the body?

3. What city is the central subject of the book?

4. How might a pregnant woman influence the sex of her infant child, according to the prevailing wisdom?

5. Why are Jews in a precarious position in Troyes?

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