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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Alison?
(a) Joanna's childhood friend.
(b) Joanna's new French speaking maid.
(c) Joanna's cousin.
(d) Joanna's daughter.

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

3. 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 decides to help John's old friend against John's army.
(b) Gwenwynwyn decides to help John fight back his old friend's raids.
(c) Gwenwynwyn owns some of the lands where the conflict between John and his old friend are taking place.
(d) Gwenwynwyn tries to take lands border his territory in Wales during the chaos between John and his old friend.

4. How many children did Eleanor of Aquitaine give to King Henry?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. What is unusual about Joanna's labor that causes those caring for her to fear for her life in Chapter 24?
(a) A Cesarean had to be performed.
(b) The labor pains were weak, delaying the delivery.
(c) The water did not break on its own and Joanna bled heavily.
(d) The baby was in the wrong position and refused attempts to move.

6. 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) John and his army.
(d) Arthur and his army.

7. Who is Morgan to Llewelyn?
(a) Teacher, father-figure, cousin.
(b) Priest, adviser, friend.
(c) Priest, friend, servant.
(d) Teacher, uncle, servant.

8. What notable person does not attend Joanna's marriage ceremony?
(a) Her father, King John.
(b) Her uncle, Will.
(c) Her stepmother, Isabelle.
(d) Her brother, Richard.

9. What does Joanna find when she enters her husband's bedchamber to give him a gift she has brought?
(a) A drunken orgy.
(b) Cristyn, his mistress.
(c) Catherine, Joanna's friend.
(d) No one, an empty room.

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

11. What time of the day does Joanna arrive back in Wales?
(a) Noon.
(b) Late evening.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Early morning.

12. Who accuses John of killing King Henry by choosing to join Richard's battle against Henry?
(a) His brother, Richard.
(b) His brother, Young Henry.
(c) His illegitimate brother, Will.
(d) His illegitimate brother, Geoffrey.

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

14. Why did Richard hang a group of John's men in Chapter 6?
(a) Treason.
(b) Murder.
(c) Espionage.
(d) Burglary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who brought Joanna to John in Chapter 7?

2. Who claims Richard named John his heir on his death bed?

3. Who tells young Joanna the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine?

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

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

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