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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. What does Roger DeCheyne ask Katherine for?
(a) A token for luck
(b) A promise to leave Hugh if he wins the joust
(c) A blessing before battle
(d) A big wet kiss

2. How is John Ball punished for inciting revolt against the poll tax?
(a) He is imprisoned in Kent
(b) He is banished from England
(c) He is sent to the salt mines of Russia
(d) He is sent to labor in the grape yards of Italy

3. When Blanchette, who loves Robin, refuses to marry Ralph of Hastings, what does she say to Katherine?
(a) She tells Katherine she's wonderful and glad to have half-siblings
(b) She says nothing, thinking the silent treatment is the best response
(c) She calls Katherine a lovely creature
(d) She calls Katherine the duke's creature who gives birth to his bastards

4. Katherine manages to stop the duke on his rampage by telling him she no longer wears his ring because:
(a) It's too small
(b) It's too large
(c) It has lost its meaning
(d) She discovered he gave the same one to Costanza

5. How does John suddenly strengthen his political position?
(a) He vows to give England to Castile
(b) He reverses the measures the Parliament recently passed, he frees Alice Perrers and prisoners sentenced by the House of Commons
(c) He changes the law so all couples can live in sin
(d) He gives Costanza the freedom to divorce him if she wants

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Costanza while the duke and Katherine publicly travel around England together?

3. Why is Hugh confident he'll return by May?

4. After signing truce agreements with Scotland, the duke suddenly learns he cannot:

5. At Our Lady of Walsingham's shrine, what miracle does Katherine pray for?

(see the answer key)

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