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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. What illness does Nichola, Hugh's stepmother, have?
(a) Water-elf sickness
(b) Psoriasis
(c) Cancer
(d) A bad heart

2. Why does Nirac, the duke's loyal servant, decide to guard Katherine with his life?
(a) He thinks Katherine and the duke are in a serious romantic relationship
(b) He has nothing else to do
(c) He thinks he's in love with Katherine
(d) The Duke threatens him if he doesn't

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

4. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby?
(a) Philippa
(b) Blanche
(c) Nichola
(d) Hawise

5. Katherine visits the Pessoner home only to be suddenly called away by:
(a) The king, who no longer cares for Alice Perrers
(b) The Duke of Lancaster, who requires her presence immediately
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer, who needs her help editing his latest work
(d) The Duke of Yorkshire, who wants to meet her

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bolingbroke, the home of the Lancasters, compare with Kettlethorpe?

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

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?

4. Why does the duke insist on seeing Katherine before remarrying?

5. Who is John interested in marrying?

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