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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Katherine reaches Blanche just in time to:
(a) Get a blessing to have an affair with the duke
(b) Get a judge to annul Blanche's marriage to the duke
(c) Hear Blanche tell her that the duke is not who she thinks he is
(d) Get a priest to administer last rites

2. Describe Katherine's reaction to the pyx when it passes the Chaucer home?
(a) She's ashamed because she's suddenly in love with Geoffrecy
(b) She's shocked the pyx is so ugly
(c) She's ashamed because she can't remember what the pyx is
(d) She's ashamed of herself for wanting to escape marrying Hugh

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

4. 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

5. How did Katherine's mother die?
(a) She was trampled by a horse
(b) From a mysterious disease
(c) She took her own life
(d) In childbirth

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

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

8. Whose husband leads the angry mob?
(a) Jack, Hawise's husband
(b) Philippa's husband, Geoffrey
(c) Costanza's husband, the duke
(d) Emma's husband, Guy le Pessoner

9. How does Bolingbroke, the home of the Lancasters, compare with Kettlethorpe?
(a) There is almost no difference. The estates were built by the same architect
(b) It is beautiful, alive and welcoming
(c) It is newer but has no distinct characteristics
(d) Uglier and the property much smaller

10. Why does Katherine find Philippa's letter so upsetting?
(a) Philippa assumes that Katherine is living in great comfort and luxury
(b) Philippa says Katherine is a bad person who deserves an equally bad husband
(c) Philippa refuses to visit her
(d) Philippa preaches to her about childbearing

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

12. Why do the servants resent the pregnant Katherine?
(a) She is meaner than before
(b) She is overly demanding
(c) She's bringing the next of the Swynford generation
(d) She looks so beautiful pregnant

13. When John returns to celebrate St. George's Day, what does Katherine find Hawise doing in her bedroom?
(a) Taking a nap in the big bed
(b) Removing the bed so that John and Katherine cannot conceive
(c) Ironing the bed sheets so they're very crisp
(d) Shaking a roawn branch over the bed and muttering a curse hoping that Katherine will no longer conceive

14. Nirac overhears John's declaration to Katherine. He decides to take matters into his own hands by:
(a) Poisoning Hugh
(b) Putting Hugh on the front lines in battle
(c) Poisoning Costanza
(d) Poisoning Katherine

15. As Katherine passes the skin market at Danesgate, she sees:
(a) Philippa
(b) A nun from the convent
(c) Costanza
(d) Alice Perrers

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what are the "four dread horsemen of the Apocalypse"?

2. How does Katherine respond to John's amorous declaration?

3. Describe the condition of Kettlethorpe when Katherine first arrives:

4. What is the Captal's opinion of Katherine?

5. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby?

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