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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Will Longsword?

2. Who is John de Grey?

3. What is Fontevrault Abbey?

4. What failure on her husband's part causes Joanna a great deal of humiliation in the first months of her marriage?

5. Why do Llewelyn and his family return to Wales when Llewelyn is fourteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What language is spoken at Aber? How does this effect Joanna?

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

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

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 Joanna return to Aber two weeks sooner than planned in Chapter 20?

6. Who is kidnapped by the Austrians? Why does John attempted to pay the Austrians to keep this person a full year?

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

8. Why does Llewelyn defy King John and attack Lower Powys after the arrest of Gwenwynwyn, the Prince of Lower Powys?

9. What is Eleanor's relationship like with King John in the final years of her life? How does she die?

10. Why did King Henry have his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, imprisoned for multiple years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Llewelyn's children react to their new stepmother? Why does Gruffydd treat Joanna with such disrespect? What is Gruffydd's biggest fear in relation to his father's marriage to Joanna? Does Joanna do something to upset Gruffydd? How do Gruffydd's sisters feel about Joanna? How does this make Joanna feel about her marriage to Llewelyn?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Joanna? What is significant about her birth? Why does Joanna's mother commit suicide? Why is Joanna sent to live with her father? How does Joanna's father respond to meeting his daughter for the first time? How does Joanna feel about her father? How does Joanna respond to meeting her stepmother for the first time? Why? What does this suggest about Joanna's future?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following character relationships in detail, citing supporting information from the novel:

1) John and Joanna

2) Eleanor of Aquitaine and John

3) Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joanna.

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