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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the illness that the Prince of Wales has?
(a) Dropsy
(b) Cancer
(c) Dysenterry
(d) Dementia
2. To whom do the king and John pledge their allegiance when the Old King dies?
(a) Richard, the Prince of Wales's son
(b) The Earl of March
(c) Brother William, friar
(d) The Earl of Sussex
3. With whom does Katherine form a lifelong friendship when she is at the Pessoner home?
(a) Hawise, the daughter
(b) One of the servants
(c) Guy Le Pessoner's wife
(d) Guy Le Pessonner's brother
4. Katherine visits the Pessoner home only to be suddenly called away by:
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer, who needs her help editing his latest work
(b) The king, who no longer cares for Alice Perrers
(c) The Duke of Yorkshire, who wants to meet her
(d) The Duke of Lancaster, who requires her presence immediately
5. How does Katherine respond to John's amorous declaration?
(a) She no longer feels the same way toward him
(b) Hugh is a changed man and she thinks she's in love with him now
(c) She has made a vow to Saint Catherine and she intends to keep it
(d) She met someone else and is deeply in love with this new man
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Costanza eager to make a pilgrimage to Canterbury?
2. Whose husband leads the angry mob?
3. Why does Philippa end up sending Katherine to Bolingbroke?
4. Katherine goes to the Chapel to visit Blanches' body and finds the duke there. What does he tell her?
5. What does Katherine tell John when she returns to Bordeaux?
Short Essay Questions
1. Despite Hugh's death and pledging their undying love for each other, Katherine and the duke cannot marry. Why?
2. When Katherine leaves the convent where she has lived for the past five years, she is excited because she has yearned to experience life outside the Sheppey Priory walls. During the journey to the queen's court, and upon her arrival, what kinds of people does she meet who make her quickly realize how protected a life she has led?
3. Who takes Katherine from the pier to Hugh's lodgings when she arrives in Bordeaux? And how does Hugh receive this escort?
4. Describe Katherine's journey on the ship to Bordeaux.
5. What happens to the duke after he exits the commemorative mass for Blanche, and how does he react?
6. Despite his love for Katherine, who is the Duke of Lancaster hoping to marry, and why?
7. Costanza tells John that she had a dream. What did she dream that sets this chapter into motion?
8. Name some of the devastating events of 1369 and how they affect Kettlethorpe.
9. Why does the duke become the "target of an angry, puzzled England"?
10. Initially the duke sends Katherine away, only to suddenly call her back when she's visiting Hawise and the Pessoners. Do you think the duke was rash to turn to Katherine so quickly?
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