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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Llewelyn and his family return to Wales when Llewelyn is fourteen?
(a) The divorce of his mother and stepmother.
(b) The wedding of Llewelyn's cousin, Mathraval.
(c) The funeral of Llewelyn's uncle, Owain.
(d) To allow Llewelyn to take control of his father's lands.

3. To whom does King John arrange for his daughter, Joanna, to marry?
(a) Will.
(b) Arthur.
(c) King Philip.
(d) Llewelyn ab Iowerth.

4. What is Interdict?
(a) Exclusion of a single person from the Catholic Curch.
(b) Refusal to allow a person divorce in the Catholic Church.
(c) Bringing legal charges against a person.
(d) Refusal of sacraments to a group of people in the Catholic Church.

5. How does Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Lower Powys, become involved in the struggle between King John and his disgraced old friend in Chapter 24?
(a) Gwenwynwyn tries to take lands border his territory in Wales during the chaos between John and his old friend.
(b) Gwenwynwyn decides to help John fight back his old friend's raids.
(c) Gwenwynwyn decides to help John's old friend against John's army.
(d) Gwenwynwyn owns some of the lands where the conflict between John and his old friend are taking place.

6. What reason does Joanna believe binds her husband to her no matter her behavior toward him?
(a) His need of a mother for his children.
(b) His promise to her in church.
(c) His need for an alliance with King John.
(d) His promise to Eleanor of Aquitaine of fidelity.

7. Why does Joanna's new husband cut himself and bleed on their sheets during the night?
(a) To simulate an enemy attack.
(b) To simulate the blood of Joanna's broken maidenhead.
(c) To play a trick on Joanna.
(d) To help cure a cold.

8. What reason inspired the arranged marriage for Richard in 1191?
(a) A political alliance with Aquitaine, a territory near France.
(b) An alliance with France.
(c) A political alliance with Navarre, a territory near Aquitaine.
(d) An alliance with Wales.

9. Who decides Gwenwynwyn's imprisonment is the perfect time to invade his lands in Chapter 24?
(a) Llewelyn.
(b) Maelgwn.
(c) Rhys.
(d) King John.

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

11. What was Geoffrey's, son of Henry Plantagenet, title before his untimely death?
(a) Count of Poitou.
(b) Duke of Aquitaine.
(c) Duke of Brittany.
(d) Count of Le Mans.

12. To whom is Aubrey de Mara taking a message in Chapter 9?
(a) Llewleyn ab Iowerth.
(b) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
(c) Thomas Corbet.
(d) William de Braose.

13. What is in the message that Aubrey de Mara carries in Wales in Chapter 9?
(a) The news of Llewelyn's defeat at Mold.
(b) The news of Richard's death.
(c) The news of the birth of Llewelyn's son.
(d) The news of William de Braose's death.

14. Who is Marared?
(a) Llewelyn's mother.
(b) Llewelyn's brother.
(c) Llewelyn's maid.
(d) Llewelyn's father.

15. Who does Joanna think John is when she is first brought to him in La Vieille?
(a) A kind stranger.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her mother's brother.
(d) Her father's servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King John warn the Welsh Princes not to do in Chapter 24?

2. How many people in Wales speak the language that Joanna speaks?

3. What is Fontevrault Abbey?

4. How many children did Eleanor of Aquitaine give to King Henry?

5. What gift does young Joanna hope to get for her fifth birthday in Chapter 7?

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