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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. Henry returns to England and Richard is forced to:
(a) Publicly apologize for lying to peasants
(b) Share the throne with Henry
(c) Divorce his eight-year-old wife
(d) Abdicate the throne in favor of Henry

2. At one point, Cob whispers to himself: "I didn't rightly believe 'twould ever happen." What did he not believe would happen?
(a) He didn't think that Katherine would ever fall in love with him
(b) That the peasants would be declared free and that feudalism was abolished
(c) He didn't think he'd become an agnostic
(d) He didn't think the Pessonners would ever let him inside with Katherine

3. How does Cob manage to gain entry for himself and Katherine into the Pessoners' home?
(a) He gives them a barrel of fine wine he took from the castle
(b) He offers Katherine's purse with the jewels inside
(c) He bangs the door down
(d) He sneaks in the through the back, which is unlocked

4. Katherine's daughter Joan says her brother Thomas hates the king, saying he describes the king as:
(a) Womanish, soft-bellied and two-tongued
(b) Uglier than the Hunchback of Notre Dame
(c) So sickly he could knock him down by just touching him
(d) Scarier than the devil

5. Thomas Swynford is now nineteen and a knight. Who does he serve?
(a) The Duke of Lancaster
(b) Princess Joan
(c) Costanza, the Queen of Castile
(d) Henry of Bolingbroke, his half brother

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Katherine when she learns that both Trastamare and King Charles of France have died?

2. Who is making bloody threats against the king?

3. Katherine and John visit Hugh's tomb. After which, what happens?

4. Although Richard has remarried to an eight year old, he occasionally thinks of his dead wife Anne. What are his thoughts regarding her?

5. On what day of what year does Henry of Bolingbroke get married?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Katherine have a "happy ever after" ending?

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

4. Why is the preacher John Ball imprisoned?

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

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

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

8. What comment does Baron de la Pole make about Katherine that displeases the duke but might be very true politically?

9. What state of mind is the duke now in?

10. After the king's men kill Wat the tiler, the king rides up to the front rebel lines and declares himself their leader, the leader they had hoped for. The rebels cheer. Why do you think the rebels are so quick to embrace Richard?

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