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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confession does Pieter make when surrounded by Appleton and others?
(a) That Katherine and John are actually siblings
(b) He says that the Bishop Courtenay paid him to make placards about the falseness of John's heritage
(c) That Bishop Courtenay is in fact John's father
(d) That Alice Perrers is John's real mother

2. Katherine has great reservations about marrying Robert Sutton, now one of Lincoln's "foremost citizens". Why?
(a) He's never at home and hates bringing her on his travels
(b) He's too unattentive, and she needs someone to fawn over her constantly
(c) He's possessive, and he doesn't seem to like children
(d) She worries he'll love her children more than he says he loves her

3. Suddenly, Blanchette becomes ill for a month. Who looks after her during her illness?
(a) Ralph of Hastings and his mother
(b) Katherine and Brother William
(c) Henry of Bolingbroke and his new bride
(d) Katherine and Costanza

4. What does Cob do to reawaken the unconscious Katherine?
(a) He shakes her violently
(b) He slaps her a few times
(c) He rolls her into a nearby brook
(d) He waves ammonia under her nose

5. Where is Katherine buried?
(a) Lincoln Cathedral
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral
(c) In a small Swynford family plot
(d) The National Cathedral

6. Where is Costanza while the duke and Katherine publicly travel around England together?
(a) In Stratford-Upon-Avon
(b) In Castile
(c) In Hertford
(d) In Paris

7. As Katherine approaches Walsingham, she thinks of one word to describe her life since leaving the convent. What is that word?
(a) Depressing
(b) Happy
(c) Generous
(d) Evil

8. Where does Katherine feel she should now return?
(a) Savoy, to rebuild it
(b) Swynford, her husband's home
(c) Scotland
(d) Sheppey, the convent

9. After signing truce agreements with Scotland, the duke suddenly learns he cannot:
(a) Re-enter England.
(b) Live with Katherine anywhere in the kingdom
(c) Walk
(d) Re-enter Castile

10. What does Alice Perrers do immediately after the king dies?
(a) Goes insane and locks herself up in a tower
(b) Poisons herself and climbs into his tomb
(c) Makes a pass at his brother
(d) Takes some of his jewelry and flees

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

12. What does Brother William say John Ball is now preaching to the serfs?
(a) They should convert to Catholicism
(b) They should move to foreign countries and experience other cultures
(c) They should join him in his chase after the duke in Scotland
(d) They want equal status and freedom with all men

13. Although Wat the tiler dresses up for his meeting with the king and tries to befriend the king, the king's squire calls Wat, "the greatest knave and robber in all Kent" because he shows no respect for the king. What happens to Wat after the squire's statement?
(a) The king tells his squire he is greatly mistaken, then fires his squire
(b) Nothing. Everyone, including the king, ignores the squire
(c) He gets killed by the king's men
(d) The king slaps Wat and tells him to kneel on the ground before him

14. Katherine and John visit Hugh's tomb. After which, what happens?
(a) John announces he is leading a regiment into Prussia
(b) John confesses that he was remarried again
(c) John says he is leaving England forever and wants her to come with him
(d) John asks her to marry him

15. At Our Lady of Walsingham's shrine, what miracle does Katherine pray for?
(a) John's return
(b) Blanchette's return
(c) Costanza's death
(d) Hugh's return

Short Answer Questions

1. What announcement does Katherine make to John in the spring?

2. Katherine manages to stop the duke on his rampage by telling him she no longer wears his ring because:

3. Who is now the master at Kettlethorpe?

4. Right before Brother William dies, what does he tell Katherine about Hugh's death?

5. In a conversation with Katherine, Brother William tells her that Pieter and the two monks have been banished to Cyprus. He also tells her to:

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