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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katherine try to prevent the servants from doing shortly before she gives birth?
(a) Attending a wine festival
(b) Building a new wing on the house for the new baby
(c) Cooking anything with lamb in it
(d) Participating in a pagan ritual that involves sacrificing animals and drinking heavily

2. How does Katherine know the plague has contaminated Bolingbroke when she arrives?
(a) She sees servants' heads on pikes, the universal plague warning
(b) She sees a 10-foot high black cross hanging from the entry
(c) She sees a 4-foot high red cross painted at the bottom of the drawbridge
(d) Hugh comes rushing after her and tells her the news

3. In 1372, Costanza gives birth to a daughter named Catalina. What is that name's equivalent in English?
(a) Katherine
(b) It has no English equivalent
(c) Constantine
(d) Cecilia

4. How does Katherine respond to John's amorous declaration?
(a) She has made a vow to Saint Catherine and she intends to keep it
(b) Hugh is a changed man and she thinks she's in love with him now
(c) She no longer feels the same way toward him
(d) She met someone else and is deeply in love with this new man

5. 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) Castile
(b) Italy
(c) Ireland
(d) Scotland

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, to Katherine's dismay, is in attendance at the ceremony commemorating the death of Blanche, the duke's first wife?

2. Also at the House of Commons, Alice Perrers is accused of:

3. What happens when Richard asks Thomas Swynford to try on the heavy crown?

4. On what day of what year does Henry of Bolingbroke get married?

5. The Duke challenges Percy to mortal combat. Who shows up to fight him?

(see the answer key)

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