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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 Katherine tell John when she returns to Bordeaux?
2. Where does the duke take Katherine?
3. To whom is Hugh indebted?
4. What does Katherine tell Hugh before he leaves for war?
5. After reversing the Parliament's measures, John still has two significant enemies:
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. 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?
4. At first, the atmosphere surrounding Blanches' funeral and burial is very solemn, very sad. But it turns jovial and circus-like during the supper at court. What happens?
5. In this new phase of Katherine's life, she lives in the Inner Court at Kenilworth Castle. Once again, she is quite different from the Katherine at the beginning of the story, and the Katherine who was outwardly loyal and devoted to her abusive husband Hugh. Describe how she is once again different.
6. Despite his love for Katherine, who is the Duke of Lancaster hoping to marry, and why?
7. Why does the duke become the "target of an angry, puzzled England"?
8. Who helps Katherine deliver her baby daughter, and what happens right after the umbilical cord is cut?
9. What did you think of the duke when he expresses joy over Hugh's death?
10. When Katherine leaves the convent where she has lived for the past five years, she is excited because she has yearned to experience life outside the Sheppey Priory walls. During the journey to the queen's court, and upon her arrival, what kinds of people does she meet who make her quickly realize how protected a life she has led?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the start of Katherine's story, she leaves the convent for the Queen's court in the company of two nuns and the lustful Long Will. Katherine has great hopes for her life and for finding love. Yet the author writes: "It was a sad pity she could hope for no great marriage". Why does the author say this? Is Katherine doomed?
Essay Topic 2
Fate is a theme that threads throughout the novel. Despite Katherine's dislike for Hugh, she resigns herself to marrying him. How does this example illustrate the concept of accepting one's fate?
Essay Topic 3
Do you think Nirac had any concept that putting the poison in Hugh's medicine would have such far-reaching consequences? By the time he dies, do you think he had any regrets about his past actions? Or does he feel he has done everything with honor?
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