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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is John interested in marrying?
2. Katherine reaches Blanche just in time to:
3. Where does the duke take Katherine?
4. When Hugh returns to Kettlethorpe from war, we discover he suffers from?
5. Why does Geoffrey send Philippa to stay at Kettlethorpe?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who takes Katherine from the pier to Hugh's lodgings when she arrives in Bordeaux? And how does Hugh receive this escort?
2. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby daughter, and what happens right after the umbilical cord is cut?
3. Costanza tells John that she had a dream. What did she dream that sets this chapter into motion?
4. Who breaks up the fight between Roger DeCheyne and Hugh Swynford? And how does Katherine react to this?
5. Katherine meets her future husband Hugh Swyndon in this chapter of the story. Why does Katherine have reservations about marrying this man?
6. When Katherine leaves the convent where she has lived for the past five years, she is excited because she has yearned to experience life outside the Sheppey Priory walls. During the journey to the queen's court, and upon her arrival, what kinds of people does she meet who make her quickly realize how protected a life she has led?
7. Describe Bolingbroke. How is it different from Kettlethorpe?
8. Despite Hugh's death and pledging their undying love for each other, Katherine and the duke cannot marry. Why?
9. Nirac becomes a pivotal character in this part of the duke and Katherine's lives. What does he do?
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Religion plays a large role in the daily lives of people in the middle ages. Explain how two of Katherine's experiences--when she sees the "pyx" pass the Chaucer home and when Hugh's sword falls to the floor at the abbey-- demonstrate this point.
Essay Topic 2
Why does Katherine go back to Kettlethorpe? Why is it important that this is where she and the duke reunite and eventually marry?
Essay Topic 3
When the duke leaves the church where he attended a commemorative mass for Blanche, he encounters a mob that accuses him of being the son of a Flemish butcher and not the king's son. Why is this accusation so divisive? Why must the duke fight so hard to prove this accusation wrong?
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