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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six/Thirty-Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who prevents Nichola from drowning the newborn baby?
(a) Hugh
(b) Blanche
(c) The Duke of Lancaster
(d) Gibbon

2. What important event takes place in April 1369?
(a) Castile is declared the capital of continental Europe
(b) The king gets the bishop to stop the rain from falling
(c) France surrenders to England
(d) England declares war with France again

3. Initially, John tells Katherine he has called for her because:
(a) He thinks Katherine took something valuable of Blanche's and wants it back
(b) He wants her to tell him what Blanche wore when she died
(c) He wants her to repeat word for word what the priest said when administering the last rites
(d) He wants to thank her for caring for Blanche at Bolingbroke

4. Robin, playing the Lord of Misrule, shouts "Now shall each man kiss the lady of his heart!" He then kisses:
(a) Katherine
(b) Philippa
(c) Princess Joan
(d) Eleanor

5. Katherine visits her beloved Blanche's tomb. In the tomb, she hears Blanche's voice and decides:
(a) To leave everything and everyone and disappear without a trace
(b) To go to Scotland and talk to the duke
(c) To make a pilgrimmage to Canterbury
(d) To make a pilgrimmage to Our Lady Walsingham

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the servants resent the pregnant Katherine?

2. What keeps Katherine from going to Bolingbroke sooner?

3. What controversial statement does John Wyclef make about the sacredness of Mass?

4. Katherine sends a letter to the duke. In it she asks him to:

5. What worries Hawise about the affair between John and Katherine?

(see the answer key)

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