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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. 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?
(a) He overheard two monks and a Flemish man had created the documents that question the duke's heritage
(b) He is in possession of documents that could ruin John forever
(c) That John will soon move to Castile and not return
(d) He has seen genuine documents that confirm the duke is the son of a Flemish butcher

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

3. What happens when Hugh looks up at the black cross in Waltham Abbey?
(a) He suddenly has a religious epiphany and decides to become a cleric
(b) The clasp on his necklace chain comes udone and his pendant falls to the ground
(c) He faints
(d) The buckle holding his scabard comes lose and his sword falls to the ground

4. After the queen finally meets Katherine, what does she order for the convent?
(a) Wine
(b) A declaration to close the convent
(c) Wine and a novice with no dowry
(d) Wine, money, and a novice with a dowry

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose husband leads the angry mob?

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

4. Nirac overhears John's declaration to Katherine. He decides to take matters into his own hands by:

5. Where does the duke take Katherine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Nirac and Hugh that foreshadows trouble ahead?

2. What did you think of the duke when he expresses joy over Hugh's death?

3. Who takes Katherine from the pier to Hugh's lodgings when she arrives in Bordeaux? And how does Hugh receive this escort?

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

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

6. Why does the duke become the "target of an angry, puzzled England"?

7. Katherine meets her future husband Hugh Swyndon in this chapter of the story. Why does Katherine have reservations about marrying this man?

8. What happens to the duke after he exits the commemorative mass for Blanche, and how does he react?

9. What is Richard's reaction when the duke--who calls himself King of Castile--pledges his allegiance to him? Why?

10. 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?

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