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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 learns that Blanche, the Duchess, is also pregnant and rides her horse all of the time
(c) The servants refuse to take her
(d) She thinks Doucette, her horse, needs exercise

3. What does Katherine find at the duke's gatehouse that brands him a traitor?
(a) The duke's shield, turned upside down
(b) A four-foot high cross, painted red
(c) A ten-foot high cross, painted in black
(d) The Duke's shield, painted in red

4. Why is Hugh confident he'll return by May?
(a) He's certain that the Castilians can't fight in warmer weather
(b) He's certain that it won't take long to beat
(c) He went to a fortune teller who said that the Castilians won't last long
(d) His contract prevents him from fighting any longer

5. Why does Katherine not hesitate to go into the plague-contaminated Bolingbroke?
(a) She is immune to the plague
(b) She is a hot-headed stubborn woman who does whatever she wants
(c) Two sorcerers accompany her
(d) She wears a special mask that makes her immune

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Katherine know the plague has contaminated Bolingbroke when she arrives?

2. What is the main message or theme of this chapter?

3. Katherine reaches Blanche just in time to:

4. Who, to Katherine's dismay, is in attendance at the ceremony commemorating the death of Blanche, the duke's first wife?

5. Katherine manages to stop the duke on his rampage by telling him she no longer wears his ring because:

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