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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 announcement does Katherine make to John in the spring?
(a) She's pregnant
(b) She's giving him up and becoming a nun
(c) She's ill and dying
(d) She's no longer in love with him

2. Although Richard has remarried to an eight year old, he occasionally thinks of his dead wife Anne. What are his thoughts regarding her?
(a) He wishes she were alive and that his current wife could be his mistress
(b) He has suspicions that she was murdered
(c) He misses her laughter
(d) He should have married someone else

3. Katherine and John visit Hugh's tomb. After which, what happens?
(a) John announces he is leading a regiment into Prussia
(b) John confesses that he was remarried again
(c) John says he is leaving England forever and wants her to come with him
(d) John asks her to marry him

4. How does Katherine feel about being back at Kettlethorpe?
(a) She sees it as a chance to decorate it her way
(b) It makes her sick but she has to push herself to endure being there
(c) She is punishing herself with memories of Hugh
(d) She now appreciates it

5. In 1397, who did Richard have killed to save his throne?
(a) Little Hotspur, Percy's son
(b) His uncle John, Duke of Lancaster
(c) Guy le Pessoner, fishmonger
(d) His uncle Thomas, Duke of Gloucester

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the trial of John Wyclef held, and why there?

2. At the Pessoners, Geoffrey calls the hatred of the duke senseless and unjust. What does Katherine say about that?

3. What does Brother William say John Ball is now preaching to the serfs?

4. While staying at the Pessoners' home for her safety, Katherine discovers that Hawise's husband is gathering arms to do what?

5. What does John discover upon his return to England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Katherine goes to the Pessoners for safety. What she discover there?

2. The Duke has grown quite mad with his obsession over his heritage. While Katherine talks to him, she learns that someone is at the root of John's fears. Who is this person?

3. Why does Katherine risk revealing her true identity in front of the other peasants in order to save Cob?

4. It is ironic that Katherine goes back to Kettlethorpe?

5. Where is Katherine now?

6. It is now 1395. What has happened to Costanza?

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

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

9. John Ball is once again, now that he has been released from prison, preaching to the angry masses. What is he saying this time?

10. 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?

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