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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two/Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katherine try to prevent the servants from doing shortly before she gives birth?
(a) Attending a wine festival
(b) Participating in a pagan ritual that involves sacrificing animals and drinking heavily
(c) Building a new wing on the house for the new baby
(d) Cooking anything with lamb in it

2. What assumption has Katherine made about her release from the convent?
(a) That someone has hired her as a governess
(b) That she's being transferred to another convent
(c) That her sister Philippa has sent for her
(d) That a husband has been chosen for her and she will soon be married

3. How did Katherine's mother die?
(a) She took her own life
(b) From a mysterious disease
(c) She was trampled by a horse
(d) In childbirth

4. Who or what are the "four dread horsemen of the Apocalypse"?
(a) Peace, Love, Understanding and Wisdom
(b) Famine, War, Sloth and Hanging
(c) There are really only two: Famine and War
(d) Famine, War, Pestilence and Death

5. Why do the servants resent the pregnant Katherine?
(a) She's bringing the next of the Swynford generation
(b) She is overly demanding
(c) She looks so beautiful pregnant
(d) She is meaner than before

Short Answer Questions

1. Do Katherine and Blanche get along?

2. What happens when Hugh looks up at the black cross in Waltham Abbey?

3. What does Katherine tell Hugh before he leaves for war?

4. Once Katherine is resigned to marrying Hugh, what does she give him?

5. Describe the condition of Kettlethorpe when Katherine first arrives:

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