By day, it was only when Katherine saw his traits in his children that she thought of the Duke. Young John looked most like him, the tawny gold hair, the arrogant grace of movement. But Harry had his voice, deep, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes so caressing that it turned her heart over. They all had his intense blue eyes, except Joan. But by night, sometimes she was with him in dreams. In these dreams there was love between them, tenderness greater than there had really been. She had had no direct communication with him in these years, but he had been just, as she had known he would. There had been legal documents: severance papers sent, which allowed her to keep the properties he had previously given her, and made her a further grant of two hundred marks a year for life “in

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recognition of her good services towards my daughters by Lady Blanche.” No mention of his Beaufort children, but Katherine understood very well that this generous sum was to be expended for their benefit. So that was how it ended, those ten years of passionate love.

1. The purpose of the passage is to
a. compare Katherine to the Duke.
b. narrate Katherine’s story after her love affair.
c. describe Katherine’s children.

2. The tone of the passage is one of

a. happiness.
b. heartbreak.
c. anger.

3. The word just, as underlined in the passage, most nearly means
a. fair.
b. only.
c. unreasonable.

4. We can infer from the passage that Katherine’s oldest child a. was about ten years old.
b. couldn’t have been over three years old.
c. was an infant.

5. The passage implies that Katherine
a. detested the Duke.
b. did not love her children because they were illegitimate.
c. still longed for the Duke.

Answer 1

1. b.
2. b.
3. a.
4. a.
5. c.