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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news does Edward give the de Montforts and Hal Planate genet?
(a) Wales is fragmenting.
(b) Henry is becoming too powerful.
(c) Henry is having trouble with the barons.
(d) Wales is unifying.

3. What is Simon accused of?
(a) Mismanagement.
(b) Arresting people without trial.
(c) Theft.
(d) Draught and famine.

4. How does the falling out affect Edward?
(a) He is exiled to France.
(b) He is set free by the Earl of Gloucester.
(c) He is set free by Bran de Montfort.
(d) He is killed by Simon.

5. What does his trouble impinge upon?
(a) His sleep.
(b) His authority.
(c) His mobility.
(d) His celebration of Epiphany.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Harry de Montfort let Edward go?
(a) Because he was deceived.
(b) Because they were friends.
(c) Because he wants peace.
(d) Because he was weak.

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

13. What do Davydd and Owain want to gain by invading Gwynedd?
(a) They want Llewelyn to split his lands between his brothers.
(b) They want to unify Wales against England.
(c) They want to deliver Wales to England.
(d) They want to rule Wales.

14. How does Edward's army defeat Simon's at Evesham?
(a) They approach flying Bran's standards.
(b) They approach silently at dawn.
(c) They send false reports of peace in the outskirts of the town.
(d) They disguise themselves with captured uniforms from Bran's army.

15. How does Simon's army attempt to escape?
(a) By withstanding a siege.
(b) By surrendering.
(c) By concentrating on one spot in the lines.
(d) By subterfuge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Llewelyn give Davydd?

2. Who is almost trapped when Londoners lock the drawbridge in the up position?

3. What does Simon ask Llewelyn for?

4. What does Llewelyn want Davydd to see?

5. What gives Simon cause to worry after his victory?

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