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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. What is excommunication?
(a) Banning a whole country of people from sacraments in the Catholic Church temporarily.
(b) Condemning a person to death after a legal trial.
(c) Banning a single person from all sacraments in the Catholic Church permenantly.
(d) Refusing to communicate with a person as a form of punishment.

2. What is the traditional name of Wales?
(a) Corfe.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Gruffydd.
(d) Cymru.

3. Who advises Joanna's husband that Joanna is unhappy in her new home?
(a) Catherine, the Norman wife of Rhys.
(b) Rhys.
(c) Llewelyn's daughter, Gwenllian.
(d) Isabelle.

4. What physical disability does Llewelyn's brother, Adda, have?
(a) A cleft palate.
(b) Deafness.
(c) A twisted, deformed leg.
(d) Blindness.

5. Who is Ingeborg?
(a) The first wife of King Henry.
(b) The wife of Iowerth of Wales.
(c) The wife of King Philip of France.
(d) The wife of William de Braose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John de Grey?

2. Why does Joanna's new husband cut himself and bleed on their sheets during the night?

3. Where is Joanna taken after her mother's death in Chapter 7?

4. How many separate kingdoms are there in Wales as the novel begins?

5. Who arrives just as Eleanor is preparing her companions to be taken hostage by the enemy army?

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