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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry tell Simon in his letter?
(a) He refuses a truce.
(b) He wants a truce.
(c) He wants to negotiate.
(d) He wants Simon to surrender.

2. What is the result of Simon's plan to escape?
(a) The army is slaughtered.
(b) A standoff that lasts for months.
(c) It fails and Simon surrenders to save the army.
(d) Most of the army escapes.

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

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

5. What happens to Nell after Simon's death?
(a) She is kept a prisoner in Dover Castle.
(b) She goes into exile in France.
(c) She is killed by Simon's forces.
(d) She is married to Edward's son Edward.

6. What is the outcome of the meeting with Henry and his barons?
(a) New taxes.
(b) Religious persecution.
(c) A set of guidelines.
(d) Civil war.

7. What did the Oxford Provisions prohibit?
(a) Monarchical rule.
(b) Executive privilege.
(c) Foreign-born lords in the king's circle.
(d) Foreign wars.

8. What have the Lusignans been doing, when Nell and Richard approach them?
(a) Opposing the king.
(b) Remaining aloof and neutral.
(c) Warring against each other.
(d) Stealing and killing.

9. Why is Henry in the Tower of London?
(a) For his opposition to the Lusignans.
(b) For his role in Gruffydd's death.
(c) For fear of Simon's army.
(d) As punishment for his support of the Barons' crimes.

10. What happens when Edward shows up at Kenilworth?
(a) Edward is killed in the fighting.
(b) Bran's army is routed.
(c) Bran's army retreats inside the castle, and a futile siege begins.
(d) Bran triumphs over Edward's army.

11. What does Simon have the chance to do, but turns it down?
(a) Rule France.
(b) Raise an army against King Henry.
(c) Be seneschal for the French King.
(d) Depose the king.

12. What brings Nell back to England?
(a) Elen's pregnancy.
(b) Financial difficulties.
(c) Simon's political troubles.
(d) War.

13. How many people are members of the council in the Oxford Provisions?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

14. What authority has stood behind the Lusignans?
(a) King John's.
(b) The Pope's.
(c) Gruffydd's.
(d) King Henry's.

15. What are Edward's plans with regard to Wales?
(a) Exploit.
(b) Invade.
(c) Pacify.
(d) Ignore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Henry's barons been trying to convince him to do?

2. How does Edward try to help Henry raise an army?

3. How does Edward get into Northampton to attack Simon's army?

4. Why does Henry want to stop at Evesham?

5. What is Simon accused of?

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