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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. Nirac's feelings toward Katherine go from loyalty to hatred. Resigned that he'll never be greatly admired by John, what does he do?
(a) Resigns his commission and moves to the countryside to become a farmer
(b) Secretly tells Costanza what is really going on
(c) Disappears
(d) Takes some drug and tells the Friar about the duke and Katherine

2. How does John suddenly strengthen his political position?
(a) He gives Costanza the freedom to divorce him if she wants
(b) He changes the law so all couples can live in sin
(c) He reverses the measures the Parliament recently passed, he frees Alice Perrers and prisoners sentenced by the House of Commons
(d) He vows to give England to Castile

3. How does Nirac describe Costanza's appearance?
(a) Shabby, bony, flat-chested with a hair shirt to remind her of her father
(b) Plain and forgetful
(c) Exquisite, voluptuous, dressed in the most beautiful dresses
(d) So repulsive that it would be best to look elsewhere in her presence

4. 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 Pessonner's brother
(d) Guy Le Pessoner's wife

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hugh order Katherine to stay away from Nichola?

2. Whose husband leads the angry mob?

3. What assumption has Katherine made about her release from the convent?

4. What happens when Katherine goes alone to the courtyard?

5. What keeps Katherine from going to Bolingbroke sooner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name some of the devastating events of 1369 and how they affect Kettlethorpe.

2. Costanza tells John that she had a dream. What did she dream that sets this chapter into motion?

3. When the duke and Katherine meet, he decides to make a personal blazon of arms for her. What reason does he give for doing this?

4. When Katherine arrives at the dilapidated Kettlethorpe, she meets Gibbon. What is Gibbon's role at the manor, and who is he in relation to Hugh?

5. 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?

6. What does Philippa, Katherine's older sister, say in a letter that upsets Katherine deeply?

7. Alice Perrers experiences the House of Commons's most viral attack. Of what do they accuse her?

8. Katherine's sister Philippa is engaged to the writer Geoffrey Chaucer and her future seems set. While Philippa is concerned about her younger sister's welfare, she's also jealous of her. Why?

9. 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?

10. Describe Bolingbroke. How is it different from Kettlethorpe?

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