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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two/Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Katherine from going to Bolingbroke sooner?
(a) She can't make up her mind if she really likes Blanche
(b) Violent rainstorms ruin the road to Bolingbroke
(c) A robber stole her horse and Hugh won't give her another one
(d) She has to wait until she can wean Thomas off her

2. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby?
(a) Blanche
(b) Philippa
(c) Nichola
(d) Hawise

3. What does Katherine tell Hugh before he leaves for war?
(a) She's leaving him and not to look for her
(b) He must stop at the Lancaster estate for a blessing first
(c) That she's pregnant
(d) She has discovered that she cannot have children

4. Who prevents Nichola from drowning the newborn baby?
(a) Gibbon
(b) Blanche
(c) Hugh
(d) The Duke of Lancaster

5. To whom is Hugh indebted?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) Alice Perrers
(c) John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
(d) The King

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine goes back to the Pessoners' and asks Hawise to:

2. Katherine reaches Blanche just in time to:

3. What does Roger DeCheyne ask Katherine for?

4. What does Katherine try to prevent the servants from doing shortly before she gives birth?

5. Why does Nirac, the duke's loyal servant, decide to guard Katherine with his life?

(see the answer key)

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