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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. On what day of what year does Henry of Bolingbroke get married?
(a) Christmas Day, 1380
(b) March 15, 1380
(c) July 15, 1380
(d) New Year's Day, 1380

2. Suddenly, Blanchette becomes ill for a month. Who looks after her during her illness?
(a) Henry of Bolingbroke and his new bride
(b) Katherine and Brother William
(c) Katherine and Costanza
(d) Ralph of Hastings and his mother

3. What does John realize is causing his insanity?
(a) He still has no idea. He thinks he's fine and that everyone around him has some silly idea he's crazy
(b) The women in his life
(c) His lack of war victories
(d) Deep grief from childhood. Isolda promised him she wouldn't leave him then died

4. Henry returns to England and Richard is forced to:
(a) Publicly apologize for lying to peasants
(b) Divorce his eight-year-old wife
(c) Share the throne with Henry
(d) Abdicate the throne in favor of Henry

5. Katherine visits her beloved Blanche's tomb. In the tomb, she hears Blanche's voice and decides:
(a) To go to Scotland and talk to the duke
(b) To leave everything and everyone and disappear without a trace
(c) To make a pilgrimmage to Our Lady Walsingham
(d) To make a pilgrimmage to Canterbury

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main message or theme of this chapter?

2. What does Father Oswald suggest for Katherine?

3. At one point, Cob whispers to himself: "I didn't rightly believe 'twould ever happen." What did he not believe would happen?

4. Where does Richard die?

5. Whose life does Katherine save during the king's visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Alice Perrers is free again and with the king, this status is short-lived when what happens? And what does she do?

2. Where is Katherine now?

3. At the raucous wedding of Henry of Bolingbroke to Anne of Bohemia, Robin, playing a comic character called the Lord of Misrule shouts: "Now shall each man kiss the lady of his heart!" He kisses Katherine. How does the duke respond to this incident?

4. To what country is the duke assigned, and to do what?

5. Describe Katherine's appearance after she decides she is responsible for the friar's death and her daughter's disappearance.

6. After the king's men kill Wat the tiler, the king rides up to the front rebel lines and declares himself their leader, the leader they had hoped for. The rebels cheer. Why do you think the rebels are so quick to embrace Richard?

7. Who is Lady Julian and what does she help Katherine do?

8. Why is the preacher John Ball imprisoned?

9. When John Beaufort comes to see Katherine at Kettlethorpe, what does he tell her?

10. When the news arrives that Trastamare and the king of France are dead, Spain and France are essentially both leaderless. The throne of Castile is now within the duke's grasp. Although Katherine worries about being around Costanza, what does she realize most about the duke's ambitions?

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