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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. Who is Rhodri?
(a) Davydd's son.
(b) Llelo's uncle.
(c) Gruffydd's son.
(d) Llewelyn's nephew.

2. What does Elen hear Gruffydd is planning, when she gets to Gloucester?
(a) Gruffydd is raising an army.
(b) Gruffydd is ill.
(c) Simon and Nell are ill.
(d) Simon is raising an army.

3. Why does Davydd come to London?
(a) To raise an army.
(b) To pay homage to King Henry.
(c) To rescue Gruffydd.
(d) To kill Gruffydd.

4. What does Simon de Montfort ask for?
(a) Permission to marry.
(b) Freedom to study in Germany.
(c) Money to raise an army.
(d) The return of the Earldom of Leicester.

5. Who does Simon de Montfort visit at the beginning of Falls the Shadow?
(a) Elen.
(b) Earl of Chester.
(c) Llewelyn ap Gruffydd.
(d) King John.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gruffydd's happiness with things affect the relationship between Gruffydd and Llewelyn?

2. What is Llelo afraid of at the beginning of chapter 3?

3. What comes of Llelo's fear?

4. How does Gruffydd shame his brother?

5. What are Elen's feelings on her husband's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What position does the king give Simon de Montfort after Llewelyn and Owain's surrender?

2. Describe Simon's experience fighting with Henry against the French.

3. Describe Davydd's war with Senena and her supporters.

4. What does Llelo see that he is not supposed to see, and what does his father make him do?

5. Why does Henry go to war with France?

6. What happens when Davydd dies?

7. How does Gruffydd lose his land?

8. Why is Henry unhappy about Nell's marriage to Simon?

9. What happens when Simon de Montfort returns to Henry's court?

10. What happens to Llelo when Senena attempts to rescue her husband and son?

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