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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is usury?
(a) The ability to use a church structure for ceremonies.
(b) A material used to stuff mattresses.
(c) The process by which raw wool becomes sellable wool.
(d) Lending money at exorbitant rates of interest.

2. What are the majority of homes in Troyes made from?
(a) Adobe.
(b) Iron.
(c) Timber.
(d) Stone.

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

4. What is "churching?"
(a) The process of going house to house caroling during Christmas.
(b) The process of baptizing a stillborn child.
(c) The process involving a lay person joining the church clergy.
(d) The process whereby a recently pregnant woman is allowed back into society.

5. What is the church's position on most games and entertainments?
(a) These activities are sinful and forbidden.
(b) The church states no opinion on these activities.
(c) These activities are sinful, but permitted on Tuesdays.
(d) These activities are necessary to overall emotional health.

6. Which of the following is NOT a step taken in the preparation of a typical dinner?
(a) Servants chop and blanch vegetables.
(b) The wife must visit the butcher's to select a meat.
(c) Food must be taken to the cathedral to be blessed.
(d) Meats must be roasted in a communal oven.

7. How do diners wipe their mouths during dinner?
(a) With their sleeve.
(b) With a napkin.
(c) With their hand.
(d) With the tablecloth.

8. Which of the following is NOT a member category in a guild?
(a) Journeyman.
(b) Apprentice.
(c) Rookie.
(d) Master.

9. What is a woman in 1250 NOT allowed to do?
(a) Vote on local political matters.
(b) Own property.
(c) Make wills.
(d) File lawsuits.

10. What part of the city of Troyes are Jews located in?
(a) Broce-aux-Juifs.
(b) The Viscount's Tower.
(c) The new city.
(d) The canal.

11. What is a lying-in chamber?
(a) The sleeping quarters for the servants.
(b) The sleeping quarters for the burgher and his wife.
(c) A room reserved for a pregnant woman giving birth.
(d) An interrogation room for criminals.

12. Who lives in the "old city?"
(a) Wealthy families, clergy members, Jews, and the poor.
(b) It is exclusively reserved for the the poor.
(c) It is exclusively reserved for Jews.
(d) Only members of the Church are allowed in the old city.

13. What structure is common to all floors of a burghers' home?
(a) A statue of the Virgin Mary.
(b) A large fireplace.
(c) A mattress.
(d) A rectangular eating table.

14. Which of the following is NOT one of the tools of a midwife?
(a) Soothing words.
(b) Jasper stone.
(c) Magical intonations.
(d) A hammer and awl.

15. Which of the following is a typical play activity for young children?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Cock fighting.
(c) Recitation of epic poetry.
(d) Bear baiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accounts for varying degrees of quality in iron, as fashioned by a blacksmith?

2. What color is a burgher's house covered in upon his death?

3. When is a child baptized ideally?

4. How does a typical woman's education compare with a typical man's education?

5. What is a consignment?

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