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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. What mode of transport does Katherine use when leaving the convent?
2. Despite telling the Captal that he only loves Katherine, what must John do?
3. What worries Hawise about the affair between John and Katherine?
4. John has a dream in which he "felt the touch of the sacred oil as the archbishop anointed him and he had felt, vivid as in waking, the holy pressure" of a certain country's crown. What country's crown?
5. Why does Philippa end up sending Katherine to Bolingbroke?
Short Essay Questions
1. Costanza tells John that she had a dream. What did she dream that sets this chapter into motion?
2. Why does the duke become the "target of an angry, puzzled England"?
3. Initially the duke sends Katherine away, only to suddenly call her back when she's visiting Hawise and the Pessoners. Do you think the duke was rash to turn to Katherine so quickly?
4. When the duke and Katherine meet, he decides to make a personal blazon of arms for her. What reason does he give for doing this?
5. Despite his love for Katherine, who is the Duke of Lancaster hoping to marry, and why?
6. Katherine's sister Philippa is engaged to the writer Geoffrey Chaucer and her future seems set. While Philippa is concerned about her younger sister's welfare, she's also jealous of her. Why?
7. Nirac becomes a pivotal character in this part of the duke and Katherine's lives. What does he do?
8. Despite Hugh's death and pledging their undying love for each other, Katherine and the duke cannot marry. Why?
9. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby daughter, and what happens right after the umbilical cord is cut?
10. Name some of the devastating events of 1369 and how they affect Kettlethorpe.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is it ironic that in Bordeaux, while Katherine tends to her ailing husband and the duke declares his undying love for her, she says she cannot be unfaithful to Hugh? Talk about the internal, emotional tug-of-war that Katherine experiences when it comes to her love for the duke and her feelings toward her abusive husband Hugh.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the circumstances in which Katherine and Costanza finally meet, and the duke's reaction (or lack of reaction) to the meeting. How does Seton portray these two women? Are they both sympathetic characters? Pathetic characters? Likeable? And in what light does she cast the duke in this instance?
Essay Topic 3
Katherine's long romance with the duke starts shortly after Hugh dies. However, there are already indications that their romance will be ill-fated. What lies ahead that makes them an ill-fated pair?
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