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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 does Dr. de Puebla ask Catalina which she refuses to answer?
(a) About her health.
(b) About her husband's death.
(c) About her intention to remarry.
(d) About her virginity.

2. What is Catalina's first impression of Arthur?
(a) That he is rude.
(b) That he is impatient.
(c) That he is dimwitted.
(d) That he is kind.

3. What does Catalina's mother order to be built in after the camp is destroyed?
(a) A dam.
(b) A fortress of rock.
(c) Another camp in its place.
(d) A bridge.

4. Catalina is told to stay where she is until she is certain of what?
(a) That she will not be able to marry Harry.
(b) That her dowry has been refunded.
(c) That she is not pregnant.
(d) That England is not going to war against Spain.

5. Where does Catalina travel to after meeting Arthur and Henry?
(a) London.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Bristol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Catalina wearing when Arthur comes to her room the second time in Chapter 4?

2. Where do Catalina's parents take her in at the beginning of the novel?

3. What does Dr. de Puebla recall about Catalina as a child?

4. What would Catalina's mother do when her father became enamored with other women?

5. Who is Catalina's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political effect does King Henry hope Catalina and Arthur's marriage will have?

2. Where is Catalina sent when she is fifteen?

3. What does Catalina tell Doña Elvira their two options are now that Arthur is dead?

4. Whom does Catalina send for immediately upon returning to Croydon Palace after Arthur's death?

5. How does King Henry try to cheer Catalina after her entourage returns to Spain?

6. What is promised by the conquering Spaniards in "Granada"?

7. How does Catalina's mother keep her husband's affairs in check?

8. What happens to the camp Catalina and her family stay in, in "Granada"?

9. In "Oxford, Christmas 1501", what does Catalina say she wishes Arthur to realize?

10. How does Catalina offend her sister-in-law in "London, 14th November, 1501"?

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