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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 does the local bishop call Katherine after meeting her?
2. Describe Katherine's reaction to the pyx when it passes the Chaucer home?
3. Hugh is initially suspicious as to why the duke has forgiven his debts. When Katherine reassures him that it must be the Duke's way of thanking her for taking care of the Duchess, how does Hugh react?
4. All of the duke's men are happy except for Baron de la Pole. The Baron gets sent away for openly expressing his concerns to the duke. On his way to Havering, he meets Brother William Appleton who tells him something interesting about the duke. What does he tell Baron?
5. What does Roger DeCheyne ask Katherine for?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Bolingbroke. How is it different from Kettlethorpe?
2. Who breaks up the fight between Roger DeCheyne and Hugh Swynford? And how does Katherine react to this?
3. Despite his love for Katherine, who is the Duke of Lancaster hoping to marry, and why?
4. Why does the duke become the "target of an angry, puzzled England"?
5. What happens to the duke after he exits the commemorative mass for Blanche, and how does he react?
6. Katherine meets her future husband Hugh Swyndon in this chapter of the story. Why does Katherine have reservations about marrying this man?
7. What did you think of the duke when he expresses joy over Hugh's death?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What does Philippa, Katherine's older sister, say in a letter that upsets Katherine deeply?
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
Anya Seton's "Katherine" is what is commonly referred to as historical fiction. In the "Author's Note", she says that she never distorted time, place or characters to suit her fiction. She did copious research in writing the story. She could have written about the famous Duke of Lancaster. "And yet Katherine was extremely important to English history". Why do you think she wrote this story? What do you think she wanted people to understand most about Katherine? About woman in medieval England? About English history?
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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