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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John suddenly strengthen his political position?
(a) He changes the law so all couples can live in sin
(b) He reverses the measures the Parliament recently passed, he frees Alice Perrers and prisoners sentenced by the House of Commons
(c) He gives Costanza the freedom to divorce him if she wants
(d) He vows to give England to Castile

2. John exits the obligatory mass for Blanche and encounters an angry mob who claim that:
(a) John is not the king's son but the son of a French tailor
(b) John owes them money
(c) John is not the king's son but the son of a Flemish butcher
(d) John is actually not English, but French

3. When Hugh returns to Kettlethorpe from war, we discover he suffers from?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Low blood-sugar
(c) Dyslexia
(d) Depression

4. Who, to Katherine's dismay, is in attendance at the ceremony commemorating the death of Blanche, the duke's first wife?
(a) Costanza, the duke's current wife
(b) Blanche's ghost, whom everyone can see
(c) Costanza's mother, a very bothersome woman
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer's father, who is very ill with the black plague

5. Katherine goes back to the Pessoners' and asks Hawise to:
(a) Serve as her personal chef
(b) Serve as her maid
(c) Sew a really nice dress for her
(d) Attend mass with her

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Katherine from going to Bolingbroke sooner?

2. What assumption has Katherine made about her release from the convent?

3. Who was Isolda?

4. The Duke's pious daughter Philippa worries about her father's relationship with Katherine because:

5. Where is the trial of John Wyclef held, and why there?

(see the answer key)

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