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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Joanna and her husband's first child?
(a) Elen.
(b) Llewelyn.
(c) Davydd.
(d) Gwenydd.

2. What is Interdict?
(a) Excommunication of a country's ruler.
(b) An exclusion of the baptismal rights to children of excommunicated rulers.
(c) An exclusion from church sacrament.
(d) Refusal of the church to recognize a marriage or birth.

3. Why did the Pope place France under Interdict after King Philip's marriage to the Duke of Meran's daughter?
(a) King Philip had been excommunicated.
(b) King Philip paid the Duke of Meran for his daughter's hand.
(c) King Philip refused to marry the Pope's neice.
(d) King Philip was already married.

4. Where does Llewelyn find Joanna more than a month after she left Wales?
(a) Fontevrault Abbey.
(b) Shropesburg Priory.
(c) Brewood Priory.
(d) Westminster Abbey.

5. How many separate kingdoms are there in Wales as the novel begins?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Llewelyn's stepfather?

2. What has happened in the relationship between King John and William de Braose, his old friend?

3. What notable person does not attend Joanna's marriage ceremony?

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

5. Who does John fear Richard will name as his heir in Chapter 8?

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