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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. 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

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

3. The Duke manages to get Katherine to go to Aquitaine under what pretense?
(a) She needs to tend to Hugh who has been injured in battle
(b) She needs to join other wives who are serving as nurses
(c) Women are now being drafted and it's her time to go
(d) The army needs a seamstress to repair the country's war flags

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

5. Who was Isolda?
(a) John of Gaunt's mother
(b) Alice Perrer's older sister
(c) John of Gaunt's sister
(d) A mysterious servant who charmed the royals

Short Answer Questions

1. Do Katherine and Blanche get along?

2. Katherine goes back to the Pessoners' and asks Hawise to:

3. What illness does Nichola, Hugh's stepmother, have?

4. Despite telling the Captal that he only loves Katherine, what must John do?

5. What is the name of the illness that the Prince of Wales has?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Despite his love for Katherine, who is the Duke of Lancaster hoping to marry, and why?

6. In this new phase of Katherine's life, she lives in the Inner Court at Kenilworth Castle. Once again, she is quite different from the Katherine at the beginning of the story, and the Katherine who was outwardly loyal and devoted to her abusive husband Hugh. Describe how she is once again different.

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

8. Nirac becomes a pivotal character in this part of the duke and Katherine's lives. What does he do?

9. Shortly after her wedding, Katherine and Hugh stop at Waltham Abbey, where they visit a shrine containing a large black cross. What happens to Hugh at the shrine that foreshadows dark events to come?

10. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby daughter, and what happens right after the umbilical cord is cut?

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