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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Llewelyn agree to do, at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Free Davydd.
(b) Keep Owain as a hostage.
(c) Pursue his claim to power in England.
(d) Divide Wales.

2. What is Simon accused of?
(a) Betraying the king.
(b) Changing the laws without due process.
(c) Stealing from the king.
(d) Treating the lords unfairly.

3. What kind of trouble is King Henry having at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) Political trouble.
(b) Health trouble.
(c) Women trouble.
(d) Money trouble.

4. What does Llewelyn give Davydd?
(a) An army.
(b) Transportation out of Wales in exile.
(c) Land.
(d) A share of his power.

5. What does Simon have to do after the victory over Henry?
(a) Establish the rule of law.
(b) Defend his gains from other countries' armies.
(c) Negotiate with Parliament.
(d) Squash rebellions.

6. With whom does Simon have a falling out?
(a) Earl of Chester.
(b) Bran de Montfort.
(c) Earl of Gloucester.
(d) Edward.

7. What additional oversight will the government be subjected to, as a result of the Oxford Provisions?
(a) Oversight by a new class of experts and bureaucrats.
(b) A council of international advisors.
(c) A more active parliament.
(d) International audits.

8. What happens when the King agrees to Simon's demands?
(a) Simon refuses to return to England.
(b) Simon makes new demands.
(c) Simon raises an army against him.
(d) Simon hands over conspirators working against the king.

9. How does Nell de Montfort complicate a peace between England and France?
(a) By paying taxes to neither crown.
(b) By refusing to hand over some castles.
(c) By interrupting the negotiations.
(d) By waging a war of her own against the English.

10. How does Nell react to the death of her husband?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She glad that she can marry her lover.
(c) She is more concerned with her own safety.
(d) She is devastated.

11. Where is Edward trapped?
(a) Gascony.
(b) Llanfaes.
(c) Gloucester Castle.
(d) London Tower.

12. What does Simon assemble in 1263?
(a) A governing council.
(b) An army.
(c) An international consensus.
(d) A navy.

13. What happens in the first wave of the attack?
(a) King Henry surrenders.
(b) Simon's knights pin Edward in the city.
(c) Edward turns the attackers back, and follows them into the woods.
(d) Simon's army is routed.

14. What does Simon do with the organization he builds?
(a) Undermine the Oxford Provisions.
(b) War against those who will not follow the Oxford Provisions.
(c) Use it to build a system of patronage and protection.
(d) Use it to spread the concept of universal rights on the Continent.

15. How are Nell's issues handled?
(a) She is blockaded.
(b) She is browbeaten with the threat of war.
(c) She is imprisoned.
(d) She is paid the money she says she is owed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon have the chance to do, but turns it down?

2. What is Henry's response to the outcome?

3. What are the terms Simon give Henry in surrender?

4. How does the falling out affect Edward?

5. What happens when Simon commits his whole force to the attack?

(see the answer keys)

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