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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine question in March?
(a) Her father's motives for marrying her off.
(b) Her friendships.
(c) Her mother's compliments.
(d) Her religious teachings.

2. What is Catherine not successful at when April begins?
(a) Studying for a test.
(b) Growing a garden.
(c) Warming up to the idea of marriage.
(d) Fooling anybody.

3. What event is celebrated in March?
(a) Catherine's father's birthday.
(b) Catherine's engagement.
(c) The New Year.
(d) Thomas' wedding.

4. What name does Catherine wish to be called in May?
(a) Mrs. Shaggy Beard.
(b) Lady Katie.
(c) Aelgifu.
(d) Cat.

5. Who is nearby during the labor?
(a) A midwife.
(b) A priest.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) Catherine's aunt.

6. Who is Odd William?
(a) An insane beggar.
(b) The town idiot.
(c) A self-styled scholar.
(d) Catherine's uncle.

7. What formality is set to take place in September?
(a) Catherine is going to become a lady.
(b) Catherine's parents are going to formally adopt Perkin.
(c) Catherine is going to be awarded a medal for her charity work.
(d) Catherine is going to be formally betrothed to Shaggy Beard.

8. What does Catherine not know what to do with in August?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her engagement to Shaggy Beard.
(c) The bear.
(d) Her hair.

9. Why does Catherine get locked into her room in March?
(a) For not doing her chores.
(b) For having a spitting contest.
(c) For throwing food at her brother.
(d) For saying a curse word.

10. What does Catherine see at the fair that greatly upsets her?
(a) The taunting of a small and defenseless boy.
(b) A lady with a beard.
(c) A fight between a husband and wife.
(d) A mistreated dancing bear.

11. Whose grandmother dies in June?
(a) Perkin's.
(b) Lady Aelis'.
(c) Catherine's.
(d) Meg's.

12. What does Catherine do to Geoffrey in April?
(a) She spits on him.
(b) She yells at him in front of the other villagers.
(c) She shoves him in the pond.
(d) She makes him cry.

13. What is the Crossbridge Miracle?
(a) A formerly paralyzed man crossed a thirty-feet bridge on foot.
(b) A man woke up with the supposed ability to speak fluent Hebrew.
(c) A mother gave birth to eighteen children within five years.
(d) An impressive result in a crossbow tournament.

14. Where does Catherine think of running away to in September?
(a) Portugal.
(b) London or Ireland.
(c) Spain.
(d) Rome.

15. How did Aelis' engagement in September come about?
(a) It was Aelis' idea.
(b) The groom-to-be asked her out of the blue.
(c) The groom-to-be's father made the arrangements.
(d) Her father decided on the union.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine's mother beg for in May?

2. What does Catherine talk to her mother about in July?

3. What does Catherine find Geoffrey doing that changes her opinion of him in April?

4. Who does Catherine see on the road at the end of April?

5. How does Catherine describe Agnes?

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