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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. The Duke challenges Percy to mortal combat. Who shows up to fight him?
(a) Percy's son, Little Hotspur
(b) Percy of Northumberland, as promised
(c) A mob of angry peasants
(d) No one, John stands in a field waiting and waiting

2. What does Katherine find at the duke's gatehouse that brands him a traitor?
(a) The Duke's shield, painted in red
(b) A four-foot high cross, painted red
(c) A ten-foot high cross, painted in black
(d) The duke's shield, turned upside down

3. Janet, Katherine's daughter-in-law, has a theory about why Katherine doesn't see her son Thomas much. What is Janet's theory?
(a) Katherine prefers her illegitimate children with thedDuke to her natural children with Hugh
(b) Katherine thinks Thomas is unpleasant like his late father
(c) Katherine doesn't like Janet
(d) Katherine is removing herself from society

4. What does Father Oswald refuse to grant Katherine after she confesses?
(a) Annulment of her marriage to Hugh
(b) A meeting with the Pope
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Absolution

5. When Blanchette, who loves Robin, refuses to marry Ralph of Hastings, what does she say to Katherine?
(a) She calls Katherine the duke's creature who gives birth to his bastards
(b) She calls Katherine a lovely creature
(c) She says nothing, thinking the silent treatment is the best response
(d) She tells Katherine she's wonderful and glad to have half-siblings

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Swynford is now nineteen and a knight. Who does he serve?

2. Because Katherine doesn't deny that she had hoped for Hugh's death, what does Blanchette now believe?

3. What controversial statement does John Wyclef make about the sacredness of Mass?

4. How does Cob manage to gain entry for himself and Katherine into the Pessoners' home?

5. Who does Katherine meet who helps her change her life around?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Bishop Courtenay, one of the duke's enemies, tells the angry mobs to stop rioting and go home. What do the mobs do to "content" themselves in the meantime?

2. Katherine regains her memory of the events following Brother William's death and the flight of Blanchette. Where and to whom does she go to seek help in finding Blanchette?

3. Cob o'Fenton goes to quite a lot of trouble to help Katherine get to safety after the angry peasants break into and destroy Savoy. However, what does he say when they are safe at the Pessoners and she drinks from his mug of ale?

4. Why is the preacher John Ball imprisoned?

5. When the news arrives that Trastamare and the king of France are dead, Spain and France are essentially both leaderless. The throne of Castile is now within the duke's grasp. Although Katherine worries about being around Costanza, what does she realize most about the duke's ambitions?

6. Although Alice Perrers is free again and with the king, this status is short-lived when what happens? And what does she do?

7. Katherine and John enjoy only three married years together. She lives another four years, during which Richard confiscates all Lancastrian estates and watches her son Henry return to England and fight for his rights. Did you ever think she should have just remained at Kettlethorpe and not married the duke?

8. Just as Katherine and Blanchette have repaired their tenuous relationship, what happens that makes Blanchette go back to mistrusting and even hating Katherine?

9. King Richard turned out to be quite deceptive. Do you think he got what he deserved in the end?

10. Over time Geoffrey and Philippa have come to live apart. When we see Philippa at this point in the story, how is she?

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