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Use your reading information or the Internet site at http://kevin.lps.org/middle_ages/castlelife_rdg.html to help locate your answers.

1. A castle is sometimes described as a fortress. List 5 characteristics of a castle that shows it was like a fortress.

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Answer the following in Complete Sentences.

2. How did nobles entertain themselves at home?

3. Describe the procedures of a nobility marriage.

4. Explain what was known as the code of chivalry.

5. What was the purpose of the dubbing ceremony?

*6. What other ceremony is dubbing similar to that we have learned or you have read about?

SPECIAL NOTE: Access NOVA's "Castle Life" Internet site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/castle.html and carefully read the interview between NOVA and a castle life expert, Professor Richard Holmes.

7. What was the "hierarchy" inside a castle?

8. What were "sleeping arrangements" like for people of a castle? Did families in the castle have private rooms?

SPECIAL NOTE: Access NOVA's "Castle Life" Internet site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/castle2.html to continue with your questions.

9. What was the "role of women" inside of a castle?

10. What did they do in a castle for "entertainment"?

11. What was it like around a castle when an enemy "seige" started?

• Some good information on castle defenses can be found at the Castle Siegecraft and Defense Internet site found at http://www.castlewales.com/siege.html and another helpful site is the Medieval Arms Race Internet site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/race.html This site will give you lots of information on how to design your castle to withstand attacks successfully.