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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When would Philip add his soldiers to John's?
(a) If John goes against Eleanor.
(b) If John marries Alais.
(c) If John decides on war.
(d) If John agrees to get the Vexin for Philip.

2. What does the conversation between Richard and Eleanor reveal?
(a) She hopes for them to be as close as they once were.
(b) She is hoping he will do a favor for her.
(c) She wants to ask for forgiveness.
(d) She is ending their relationship.

3. About what is Eleanor determined?
(a) Richard will be king.
(b) John will be king.
(c) Geoffrey will be king.
(d) Alais will be queen.

4. Where does this play place several historical characters, principally King Henry II of England and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine?
(a) Into the period of their lives prior to their marriage.
(b) Into the period of their marriage after the birth of their children.
(c) Into the fictionalized context of a family gathering at Christmas.
(d) Into the fictionalized context of a family gathering in modern times.

5. Geoffrey says he and John can work together freely, adding that they have got to make an alliance with whom?
(a) Philip.
(b) Eleanor.
(c) Henry.
(d) Richard.

6. What does Geoffrey say when John continues to hesitate?
(a) He reminds him that it is either Richard on the throne or him.
(b) He asks him if he is feeling alright.
(c) He asks him why he is waiting.
(d) He reminds him that he owes him.

7. What has John come to announce?
(a) Henry is coming with the terms for the treaty with France.
(b) Henry is marrying Alais.
(c) Henry has left for the day.
(d) Henry is coming to put her back in prison.

8. As they exit, on what does Henry comment?
(a) How little has changed between them.
(b) How much she still loves him.
(c) How he can still see love in Eleanor's smile.
(d) How beautiful she still is.

9. Henry says in the years Eleanor's been in prison he's surprised himself by discovering what?
(a) How sick he is of war.
(b) How old she has become.
(c) How much he misses her.
(d) How sorry he is for locking her up.

10. Henry makes a joke about how he's giving her what for Christmas?
(a) Poison.
(b) A tombstone.
(c) Weapons.
(d) A cell.

11. Of what does Eleanor remind Richard?
(a) Of her plot to get him the crown.
(b) Of the love she feels for him.
(c) Of the arts she taught him.
(d) Of the evidence she has against him.

12. To whom does Henry say Alais matters?
(a) Only to Richard.
(b) Only to John.
(c) Only to him.
(d) Only to Eleanor.

13. What will Henry's plans do for Alais, as well as make John king and Richard powerless?
(a) Make her his queen.
(b) Give her more property.
(c) Keep her with him.
(d) End her relationship with Henry.

14. How does Eleanor reply when Richard asks again what she wants?
(a) She wants the throne all to herself.
(b) She wants nothing to do with him.
(c) She wants no one to inherit the throne.
(d) She can get him the throne and Alais, but that she has to have the Aquitaine back to do it.

15. What does Henry tell Eleanor is the reason for the way he talks to Alais?
(a) To keep his enemy close.
(b) To keep her spirits up.
(c) To prepare her for marrying one of the princes.
(d) He loves her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as the brothers bicker?

2. For how long has Henry kept Eleanor imprisoned?

3. Henry refers to an ancient British king named ____________, whom he describes as having carved his kingdom up to give to his children, something he says he'll never do.

4. Eleanor pulls out a small knife and begins to do what with it?

5. What does Henry want before he dies?

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