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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edward try to help Henry raise an army?
(a) By selling castles to barons.
(b) By going to war with Spain.
(c) By robbing a local temple of the Knights Templar.
(d) By impressing foreigners.

2. Where does Simon find Henry holed up?
(a) Dover.
(b) Northampton.
(c) London.
(d) Lewes.

3. What do Simon and his knights do after they get Henry's letter?
(a) Surround Henry's position.
(b) Vow to kill Henry or die trying.
(c) Renounce their loyalty to him.
(d) Pledge themselves to be Henry's loyal subjects.

4. What does Llewelyn agree to do, at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Keep Owain as a hostage.
(b) Pursue his claim to power in England.
(c) Divide Wales.
(d) Free Davydd.

5. What is the king's response to the complaints made about Simon?
(a) He sends a new seneschal to rule.
(b) He keeps Simon's children as hostages.
(c) He leaves Simon in charge.
(d) He limits Simon's power.

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

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

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

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

10. What sparks a battle between Simon's army and Edward's?
(a) The execution of political prisoners.
(b) Abuses by the king's tax collectors.
(c) King Louis' judgment.
(d) A riot in London.

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

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

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

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

15. What happens when Simon commits his whole force to the attack?
(a) They are attacked from the flank, and routed.
(b) They quickly overrun the city.
(c) They become confused, and end up fighting each other.
(d) They are stalemated for days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nell react to the death of her husband?

2. What does Simon ask Llewelyn for?

3. What is Henry's response to the outcome?

4. Why is Bran's army outside the walls of Kenilworth?

5. How is Simon's leg broken?

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