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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation is the person Simon de Montfort meets to the King Henry III?

2. For how long have England and Wales been at war at the beginning of Chapter 16?

3. How is Henry's war with France seen by the people?

4. What does Llewelyn Fawr build at Llanfaes?

5. When did Llelo spend a lot of time with his grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does King Henry respond when it becomes clear that his sister is not pregnant?

2. How does the relationship between Gruffydd and Llewelyn change in Chapter 3?

3. Who are Llelo's parents, and what status does this give him?

4. Describe the 1245 war between England and Wales.

5. Describe Davydd's war with Senena and her supporters.

6. What position does the king give Simon de Montfort after Llewelyn and Owain's surrender?

7. Why is Llelo's relationship with his grandfather a secret?

8. Who attends Llewelyn and Owain's surrender to King Henry?

9. How does Gruffydd lose his land?

10. Why is Henry unhappy about Nell's marriage to Simon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nell is Henry's sister, and Simon de Montfort's wife--what is her role in the opposition between the two men? What makes their differences so great that even being in-laws cannot resolve them? What role does the idea of family have, in their opposition?

Essay Topic 2

What traits are specifically English, in Falls the Shadow? How are those traits defined in relation to France and Wales?

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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