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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four 1376 - 1377/Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Raulin and three men show up to escort Katherine and Hawise to Kettlethorpe, he mentions he has some letters from the duke to be delivered to people in Lincoln. Katherine is disappointed because the letters are not for her, but for:
(a) Hugh
(b) Gibbon
(c) Philippa
(d) Robert Sutton

2. Who or what are the "four dread horsemen of the Apocalypse"?
(a) Peace, Love, Understanding and Wisdom
(b) Famine, War, Sloth and Hanging
(c) There are really only two: Famine and War
(d) Famine, War, Pestilence and Death

3. 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) Ireland
(c) Castile
(d) Scotland

4. The Duke goes into seclusion after Blanche's burial, permitting only this person to see him:
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) The king
(c) Raulin d'Ypres, his young Flemish body squire
(d) Hugh Swynford

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Duke manages to get Katherine to go to Aquitaine under what pretense?

2. Who prevents Nichola from drowning the newborn baby?

3. Hugh takes the drink from Katherine and soon thereafter dreams of the Kettlethorpe Pooka Hound with "fiery-red eyes." What does the Pooka Hound symbolize?

4. Katherine soon discovers the real reason she has been called upon:

5. In addition to dystentery, what else plagues Hugh?

(see the answer key)

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