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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nirac, the duke's loyal servant, decide to guard Katherine with his life?
(a) He thinks Katherine and the duke are in a serious romantic relationship
(b) The Duke threatens him if he doesn't
(c) He thinks he's in love with Katherine
(d) He has nothing else to do

2. With whom does Katherine form a lifelong friendship when she is at the Pessoner home?
(a) Guy Le Pessoner's wife
(b) Guy Le Pessonner's brother
(c) Hawise, the daughter
(d) One of the servants

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

4. What does Katherine realize about herself after hearing Geoffrey read the love poem?
(a) She liked his comic poetry more than his romantic verse
(b) She makes all men who meet her fall in love with her
(c) She has never, and may never, experience true love
(d) He's not a very talented writer

5. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby?
(a) Nichola
(b) Blanche
(c) Hawise
(d) Philippa

6. The Earl of March envies John, but thinks he has one strength and advantage that John does not:
(a) He is expecting children with several royal women
(b) The Earl is about to father a child who is closer to the throne than any of the Lancaster children
(c) He is a better swordsman
(d) He has fathered many bastard children

7. Why can't Katherine go home?
(a) Hugh has banned her from Kettlethorpe
(b) She is sick with a bad cold
(c) She isn't given her usual five escorts, just three
(d) She doesn't have either enough money or an escort for the journey

8. Who, to Katherine's dismay, is in attendance at the ceremony commemorating the death of Blanche, the duke's first wife?
(a) Costanza's mother, a very bothersome woman
(b) Blanche's ghost, whom everyone can see
(c) Costanza, the duke's current wife
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer's father, who is very ill with the black plague

9. In Parliament, the king seems to be interested only in:
(a) Taking a nap after the session
(b) Getting a measure passed for the hanging of Alice Perrers
(c) The way he is dressed
(d) Having lunch with Alice Perrers

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

11. Why does the duke insist on seeing Katherine before remarrying?
(a) He wants to know if, because Katherine was close to Blanche, she thinks Blanche would approve of the union
(b) He wants to see if he's over her
(c) He wants her opinion of his wedding attire
(d) He wants her permission to marry a queen

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

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

14. What does the local bishop call Katherine after meeting her?
(a) A barmaid
(b) A charity wench
(c) Princess Katherine
(d) A goddess

15. How does the duke react to news of Hugh's death?
(a) He snickers and says Hugh got what he deserved
(b) With joy
(c) With deep sadness
(d) He thanks Nirac for being a great loyal servant

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Katherine's reaction to the pyx when it passes the Chaucer home?

2. The meeting of the House of Commons yields several major accusations. The King's chamberlain, Lord Latimer, is accused of:

3. Once Katherine is resigned to marrying Hugh, what does she give him?

4. Why does Geoffrey send Philippa to stay at Kettlethorpe?

5. Who sets the playful tone by dancing a dog on the table at Blanche's funeral dinner hosted by the king?

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