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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. Katherine sends a letter to the duke. In it she asks him to:
(a) Send her children to Kettlethorpe where she will raise them
(b) Look for Blanchette but not worry about the other children
(c) Be with Costanza, for she'll make him happier than Katherine ever could
(d) Keep her children with him because she's too ashamed to meet them again

2. The Duke manages to get Katherine to go to Aquitaine under what pretense?
(a) Women are now being drafted and it's her time to go
(b) She needs to tend to Hugh who has been injured in battle
(c) The army needs a seamstress to repair the country's war flags
(d) She needs to join other wives who are serving as nurses

3. Whose life does Katherine save during the king's visit?
(a) Father Oswald
(b) Percy of Northumberland
(c) Blanchette
(d) Cob o'Fenton, a loyal servant to the Swyndons

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

5. Why does Philippa end up sending Katherine to Bolingbroke?
(a) The living conditions at Kettlethorpe are horrible.
(b) She finds Katherine to be bad company
(c) Katherine complains that Philippa is too bossy
(d) Katherine cries for Blanche morning and night

Short Answer Questions

1. In a conversation with Brother William, what does Katherine discover about the preacher John Ball?

2. Katherine and John visit Hugh's tomb. After which, what happens?

3. Janet, Katherine's daughter-in-law, has a theory about why Katherine doesn't see her son Thomas much. What is Janet's theory?

4. As the Savoy explodes and peasants pillage its wine cellars, Cob stares at Katherine lying unconscious on the ground. He considers stealing her purse but stops. Why?

5. What important event takes place in April 1369?

(see the answer key)

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