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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Isolda?
(a) Alice Perrer's older sister
(b) John of Gaunt's mother
(c) A mysterious servant who charmed the royals
(d) John of Gaunt's sister

3. 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) She needs to join other wives who are serving as nurses
(d) The army needs a seamstress to repair the country's war flags

4. Who is John interested in marrying?
(a) Alice Walker
(b) Alice Perrers
(c) Costanza, Queen of Castile
(d) Elizabeth, Queen of England

5. Who does Katherine encounter on the ship to Bordeaux?
(a) Gueneviere, John's sister
(b) Isolda, John's mother
(c) Isabel, John's sister
(d) A woman named Blanche with an uncanny resemblance to Katherine

6. What is disturbing John most at this point in his life?
(a) That his brother, the Prince of Wales, is more handsome
(b) That Geoffrey Chaucer isn't writing a biography of him
(c) The rumors circulating that he is a changeling
(d) That no one will fully accept his relationship with Katherine

7. Katherine goes to the Chapel to visit Blanches' body and finds the duke there. What does he tell her?
(a) He wishes he had caught the Plague so he could be dead with Blanche
(b) He's giving Bolingbroke to the convent
(c) To leave
(d) To stay until he feels better

8. What does Katherine tell John when she returns to Bordeaux?
(a) She feels she's still married to Hugh and cannot be unfaithful to his memory
(b) She fell in love with Nirac and they are eloping
(c) She's pregnant with his child
(d) She has changed her mind and wants to become a nun

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

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

11. What does Katherine tell Hugh before he leaves for war?
(a) He must stop at the Lancaster estate for a blessing first
(b) That she's pregnant
(c) She's leaving him and not to look for her
(d) She has discovered that she cannot have children

12. What announcement does the Duke of Lancaster make when he arrives?
(a) Henry won't attend the festivities
(b) Henry prefers to be known as Harry, Prince of Wales
(c) Henry Trastamare has usurped the throne of Castile
(d) Henry Trastamare has sailed with Christopher Columbus to the New World

13. 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

14. What worries Hawise about the affair between John and Katherine?
(a) That if something goes wrong, she will be in trouble
(b) That John will tire of Katherine
(c) That Katherine might take another lover
(d) That she will not have enough energy to look after the many children they plan to have

15. Despite telling the Captal that he only loves Katherine, what must John do?
(a) Marry an eight-year-old princess from Italy
(b) Remain single and celibate
(c) Marry Alice Perrers to make her
(d) Marry Costanza, Queen of Castile

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine goes back to the Pessoners' and asks Hawise to:

2. What illness does Nichola, Hugh's stepmother, have?

3. Why do the servants resent the pregnant Katherine?

4. All of the duke's men are happy except for Baron de la Pole. The Baron gets sent away for openly expressing his concerns to the duke. On his way to Havering, he meets Brother William Appleton who tells him something interesting about the duke. What does he tell Baron?

5. To whom is Hugh indebted?

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