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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Simon involved in when he hears of the illness of his daughter?
(a) Financial negotiations.
(b) Military planning.
(c) Political meetings.
(d) A military campaign.

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

3. What does Davydd hope he can do in Wales?
(a) Unite the people.
(b) Free Owain.
(c) Pose a threat to the king.
(d) Become more powerful.

4. Why is Simon called to England again?
(a) Henry wants to put someone else in charge.
(b) Complaints are still being made against him.
(c) Henry wants to shield Simon from hostility.
(d) He is going to be promoted.

5. Where does the meeting of barons take place?
(a) London.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Paris.
(d) Oxford.

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

7. What do Prince Edward and Simon work together to do?
(a) Declare war against France.
(b) Get the king to abide by the Oxford Provisions.
(c) Undermine the Oxford Provisions.
(d) Conquer all of the British Isles.

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

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

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

11. What gives Simon cause to worry after his victory?
(a) He is running out of money.
(b) The king's supporters undermine him.
(c) His men desert.
(d) He is short of supplies.

12. Why can Henry not raise an army of his own?
(a) None of his advisors will support it.
(b) He has no money.
(c) He has lost his subjects' loyalty.
(d) He has had a stroke.

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

14. How does Edward get into Northampton to attack Simon's army?
(a) Inhabitants of the city defeated Simons army and then opened the gates.
(b) A monk weakened the wall.
(c) He batters down the walls.
(d) Simon thought he was letting him in for a negotiation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Simon's leg broken?

2. What is the result of Simon's plan to escape?

3. Why is Henry in the Tower of London?

4. What does Llewelyn want Davydd to see?

5. What is Simon accused of?

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