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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Katherine go home?
(a) She is sick with a bad cold
(b) She isn't given her usual five escorts, just three
(c) Hugh has banned her from Kettlethorpe
(d) She doesn't have either enough money or an escort for the journey

2. What happens when Katherine goes alone to the courtyard?
(a) Hugh stands next to her but never utters a word
(b) Hugh tells her he must return her to the convent
(c) Hugh reads her a love poem and seduces her
(d) Hugh attacks her and tries to rape her

3. Katherine goes to the Chapel to visit Blanches' body and finds the duke there. What does he tell her?
(a) To leave
(b) To stay until he feels better
(c) He wishes he had caught the Plague so he could be dead with Blanche
(d) He's giving Bolingbroke to the convent

4. Why does the duke insist on seeing Katherine before remarrying?
(a) He wants her opinion of his wedding attire
(b) He wants to know if, because Katherine was close to Blanche, she thinks Blanche would approve of the union
(c) He wants her permission to marry a queen
(d) He wants to see if he's over her

5. How does Bolingbroke, the home of the Lancasters, compare with Kettlethorpe?
(a) Uglier and the property much smaller
(b) It is newer but has no distinct characteristics
(c) There is almost no difference. The estates were built by the same architect
(d) It is beautiful, alive and welcoming

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby?

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

4. How did Katherine's mother die?

5. What does Roger DeCheyne ask Katherine for?

(see the answer key)

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