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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Duchess's children evade the Plague?
(a) They hid underground where they could not contract the disease
(b) They were safe in the North Tower throughout the scourge
(c) They were on holiday in France where there is no Plague
(d) They are actually Gascons, who are born with Plague immunity

2. What does Katherine tell Hugh before he leaves for war?
(a) He must stop at the Lancaster estate for a blessing first
(b) That she's pregnant
(c) She has discovered that she cannot have children
(d) She's leaving him and not to look for her

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

4. How does the sword fight between Hugh and Roger end?
(a) The Duke of Lancaster breaks it up
(b) Roger wins
(c) Hugh wins
(d) It's a draw

5. The Earl of March envies John, but thinks he has one strength and advantage that John does not:
(a) The Earl is about to father a child who is closer to the throne than any of the Lancaster children
(b) He is expecting children with several royal women
(c) He has fathered many bastard children
(d) He is a better swordsman

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Katherine is resigned to marrying Hugh, what does she give him?

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. 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?

5. How does Katherine respond to John's amorous declaration?

(see the answer key)

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