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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geoffrey say he wants to watch?
(a) Henry and Eleanor love each other again.
(b) Henry and Alais destroy each other.
(c) Henry and Eleanor destroy each other.
(d) Henry and Alais love each other again.

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

3. What does Henry announce?
(a) John is to marry Alais and inherit the crown.
(b) Richard is to marry Alais and inherit the crown.
(c) Philip is to marry Alais and inherit the crown.
(d) Geoffrey is to marry Alais and inherit the crown.

4. What does Henry wonder about everybody?
(a) Where they have all gone.
(b) Why they do not like him.
(c) Whether everybody needs to be reassured about who loves whom.
(d) Whether they all would rather share the kingdom.

5. What do the three brothers do, while John hangs holly?
(a) They talk about how Eleanor arrived that morning, how she and Richard aren't as close as they once were, and how John is Henry's favorite but how Richard is determined to be king.
(b) They dance.
(c) They are silent.
(d) They sing Christmas carols.

6. As he starts to go, John asks Geoffrey to go with him, but Geoffrey stays. Why does he stay?
(a) Since John is no longer the favorite, he has no interest in serving him.
(b) He no longer trusts John, now that he is to have the crown.
(c) He wants to spend more time with his mother.
(d) Since John is the favorite, he wants nothing to do with him.

7. What does Henry think about his kingdom?
(a) How lonely it has been without her.
(b) How much it needs her touch.
(c) How much it has changed since she has been gone.
(d) How pleasant it is to live in a peaceful kingdom.

8. How does John respond when Henry asks John whether he has seen Philip?
(a) He does not answer.
(b) He yells at him.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He leaves the room.

9. What look does Alais say she recognizes in Henry's eyes?
(a) He is annoyed by her.
(b) He wants her to leave him alone.
(c) He is about to tell her he loves her.
(d) He is angry with her.

10. What does Eleanor say will happen if if Alais does not marry Richard?
(a) She will move to the summer home on the Vexin.
(b) She will burn the Vexin.
(c) She will see to it that Henry loses the Vexin.
(d) She will purches the Vexin.

11. What does Geoffrey say is lacking in his life?
(a) Power.
(b) Attention or affection.
(c) Food.
(d) Entertainment.

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

13. What does Henry suggest that the family start doing?
(a) Hanging holly.
(b) Singing carols.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Dancing.

14. What else do they banter about?
(a) How the peasants are in a uproar over new taxes.
(b) How much work needs to be done to the castle.
(c) How difficult life is in Eleanor's prison/castle.
(d) How poor the crops are this season.

15. Geoffrey enters and tries to convince John to do what?
(a) Kill Henry.
(b) Take the throne by force.
(c) Trust him.
(d) Leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Alais accuse Eleanor?

2. What has John come to announce?

3. When Richard responds with a pointed remark about Henry's being with Alais, of what does Eleanor remind him?

4. Eleanor comments that she does not much like ___________, except for Alais.

5. With what type of woman does Henry say he has always fallen in love?

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