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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Llewelyn Fawr's decision to build at Llanfaes affect his son Gruffydd?
(a) Gruffydd is relieved.
(b) Gruffydd is saddened.
(c) Gruffydd is outraged.
(d) Gruffydd is satisfied.

2. Who is Melangell?
(a) Gruffydd's lover.
(b) Llewelyn's daughter by his lover.
(c) Llewelyn's lover.
(d) The king's mistress.

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

4. Who advises the king to abandon Wales?
(a) Gruffydd.
(b) Simon.
(c) Davydd.
(d) Nell.

5. What is Simon de Montfort's intention toward Nell?
(a) Exploitation.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Blackmail.
(d) Intimidation.

6. Who is missing from Llewelyn's deathbed?
(a) Only Gruffydd of his children.
(b) Llelo and Gruffydd.
(c) Llelo and his mother.
(d) Three of his children.

7. What are Elen's feelings on her husband's death?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She blames herself.
(c) She is vicious.
(d) She is triumphant.

8. What do the Welsh offer after the English attack?
(a) A disorganized defense.
(b) A humiliating flight.
(c) An admirable defense.
(d) An effective counterattack.

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

10. What does Llelo overhear in the garden?
(a) That Simon will be killed.
(b) That Gruffydd and Owain will be killed.
(c) That Gruffydd will be made king.
(d) That Senena's children will be hostages to the king.

11. Whose wedding do Simon de Montfort and Nell prepare to attend?
(a) Llewelyn's.
(b) Nell's.
(c) Elen's.
(d) Queen Eleanor's.

12. Where have Gruffydd and Owain been taken?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Cricieth Castle.
(c) Tower of London.
(d) Llanfaes.

13. What news does Nell get of her sister?
(a) She has left her husband.
(b) She has died in seclusion.
(c) She has entered a priory.
(d) She has taken their parents in.

14. How does the king treat his captive?
(a) Spitefully.
(b) Kindly.
(c) Inhumanely.
(d) Harshly.

15. What is John suffering from when Elen and Nell arrive?
(a) Regret for having warred against his father.
(b) Grief for the loss of his son.
(c) Spotted fever.
(d) Fury over his betrayal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she want by this opposition?

2. How does Gruffydd die?

3. Who is Nell?

4. What happens when Gruffydd wakes to see his son in the room?

5. What is Elen expecting in Chapter 12?

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