1. What economic problems made the fourteenth century an age of adversity?
2. What were the principal reasons for the peasant uprisings of the fourteenth century?
3. What was the fundamental issue at stake in the conflict between Bonafice VIII and Philip IV?
4. How did John of Paris and Marsiglio of Padua challenge the pope's claim to primacy over secular authority?
5. What were the Babylonian Captivity, Great Schism, and Conciliar Movement, and what was the historical significance of each?
6. Why did the church regard Wycliffe and Hus as heretics?
7. What was the significance of Ockham's philosophy?
8. What is the legacy of the Middle Ages to the modern world?
9. How does the characteristic outlook of the Middle Ages differ from that of the modern age"