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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four/Twenty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Katherine decide to ride her horse to visit the Duchess of Lancaster?
(a) She sees it as an opportunity to try to lose the baby
(b) She thinks Doucette, her horse, needs exercise
(c) She learns that Blanche, the Duchess, is also pregnant and rides her horse all of the time
(d) The servants refuse to take her

2. The Duke manages to get Katherine to go to Aquitaine under what pretense?
(a) Women are now being drafted and it's her time to go
(b) She needs to tend to Hugh who has been injured in battle
(c) The army needs a seamstress to repair the country's war flags
(d) She needs to join other wives who are serving as nurses

3. What is the name of the illness that the Prince of Wales has?
(a) Cancer
(b) Dropsy
(c) Dysenterry
(d) Dementia

4. What is the main message or theme of this chapter?
(a) That love conquers all.
(b) If you're powerful, you will go crazy.
(c) That when you're stressed out, it's good to rest and wake up hungry
(d) Always question who your parents are.

5. How did the Duchess's children evade the Plague?
(a) They hid underground where they could not contract the disease
(b) They were safe in the North Tower throughout the scourge
(c) They were on holiday in France where there is no Plague
(d) They are actually Gascons, who are born with Plague immunity

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Katherine find Philippa's letter so upsetting?

2. Why does Katherine not hesitate to go into the plague-contaminated Bolingbroke?

3. The meeting of the House of Commons yields several major accusations. The King's chamberlain, Lord Latimer, is accused of:

4. Also at the House of Commons, Alice Perrers is accused of:

5. In Parliament, the king seems to be interested only in:

(see the answer key)

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