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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose life does Katherine save during the king's visit?
(a) Blanchette
(b) Percy of Northumberland
(c) Father Oswald
(d) Cob o'Fenton, a loyal servant to the Swyndons

2. In addition to dystentery, what else plagues Hugh?
(a) Impotence
(b) Migraine headaches
(c) Strange nightmarish visions
(d) Strange shaking

3. Nirac's feelings toward Katherine go from loyalty to hatred. Resigned that he'll never be greatly admired by John, what does he do?
(a) Disappears
(b) Resigns his commission and moves to the countryside to become a farmer
(c) Takes some drug and tells the Friar about the duke and Katherine
(d) Secretly tells Costanza what is really going on

4. Why does Hugh order Katherine to stay away from Nichola?
(a) He doesn't want his unborn child to catch his stepmother's illness
(b) Nichola will smother her with affection
(c) Nichola is, in truth, a sorceress
(d) Nichola is clumsy and might trip and fall on her

5. Katherine reaches Blanche just in time to:
(a) Get a judge to annul Blanche's marriage to the duke
(b) Get a priest to administer last rites
(c) Hear Blanche tell her that the duke is not who she thinks he is
(d) Get a blessing to have an affair with the duke

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prevents Nichola from drowning the newborn baby?

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

3. What controversial statement does John Wyclef make about the sacredness of Mass?

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

5. Who does Philippa call an "ill-tempered virgin"?

(see the answer key)

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