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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fontevrault Abbey?
(a) A royal abbey where Eleanor has gone to recover from her grief.
(b) A royal abbey where Joanna has been sent to become a nun.
(c) A royal abbey where John was crowned.
(d) A royal abbey where King Richard is buried.

2. Who tells young Joanna the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine?
(a) Llewellyn.
(b) Will.
(c) John.
(d) Isabelle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who decides Gwenwynwyn's imprisonment is the perfect time to invade his lands in Chapter 24?

3. What is the name of Joanna and her husband's first child?

4. What is in the message that Aubrey de Mara carries in Wales in Chapter 9?

5. How much sooner than expected does Joanna arrive home to Wales after her trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry Plantagenet tell John that causes him to decide to join Richard in his fight for the crown rather than to remain at his father's side?

2. How many children does Joanna discover Llewelyn has and how does she feel about them?

3. Who is Maude de Braose and why does Joanna have cross words with her in Chapter 14?

4. For what reason has Llewelyn ab Iowerth come to live in Shropshire? From where has he come? How does he feel about this?

5. Why does King John feel that a marriage to Llewleyn ab Iorwerth will provide Joanna with a title she would not be able to secure in any other way?

6. In Chapter 5, who does Llewelyn capture in Wales?

7. How does Joanna feel when she learns that her father has married and plans to bring his new wife to Westminster Palace where Joanna is currently living?

8. In the six or seven years that Llewleyn has been back in Wales, what territories has he managed to capture? Why?

9. Who is Clemence? What is significant about her death?

10. Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine and why does she come to visit John after the death of King Henry?

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