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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapters 21-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joanna feel about this arranged marriage?
(a) Saddened at the thought of leaving her father.
(b) Relieved to be away from the prying eyes of her stepmother.
(c) As though she is being punished and forced to leave all she has ever known.
(d) Happy to start a life of her own.

2. Where does Joanna go to visit with her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine?
(a) Shropeshire.
(b) Fontevrault Abbey.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) Mirebeau.

3. What territory of Wales does Davydd ab Owain claim to rule in 1193?
(a) South Wales.
(b) Powys.
(c) North Wales.
(d) Deheubarth.

4. Who arrives just as Eleanor is preparing her companions to be taken hostage by the enemy army?
(a) Philip and his army.
(b) Llewelyn and his army.
(c) Arthur and his army.
(d) John and his army.

5. What does King John warn the Welsh Princes not to do in Chapter 24?
(a) Invade Norman lands.
(b) Invade French lands.
(c) Invade Gwenwynwyn's lands.
(d) Invade Welsh lands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Joanna think John is when she is first brought to him in La Vieille?

2. What is similar in Ingeborg's story to the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine?

3. What time of the day does Joanna arrive back in Wales?

4. What truth about Joanna does Isabelle stop Richard from saying in front of John?

5. What language is spoken in Normandy in 1183?

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