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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three/Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Isolda?
(a) A mysterious servant who charmed the royals
(b) John of Gaunt's mother
(c) Alice Perrer's older sister
(d) John of Gaunt's sister

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

3. How does Nirac describe Costanza's appearance?
(a) Shabby, bony, flat-chested with a hair shirt to remind her of her father
(b) Exquisite, voluptuous, dressed in the most beautiful dresses
(c) So repulsive that it would be best to look elsewhere in her presence
(d) Plain and forgetful

4. Describe Katherine's reaction to the pyx when it passes the Chaucer home?
(a) She's shocked the pyx is so ugly
(b) She's ashamed of herself for wanting to escape marrying Hugh
(c) She's ashamed because she's suddenly in love with Geoffrecy
(d) She's ashamed because she can't remember what the pyx is

5. John has a dream in which he "felt the touch of the sacred oil as the archbishop anointed him and he had felt, vivid as in waking, the holy pressure" of a certain country's crown. What country's crown?
(a) Italy
(b) Castile
(c) Ireland
(d) Scotland

Short Answer Questions

1. When Katherine reaches Hugh in Aquitaine, he's as ill-tempered as ever. But he softens up when she tells him about:

2. To whom is Philippa engaged?

3. After the queen finally meets Katherine, what does she order for the convent?

4. How did Katherine's mother die?

5. What does Katherine try to prevent the servants from doing shortly before she gives birth?

(see the answer key)

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