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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift does Eleanor comment that Geoffrey has?
(a) For love.
(b) For compassion.
(c) For understanding.
(d) For hatred.

2. What does Henry say about his enemies who may be smarter or more ruthless or more dishonest than he?
(a) He will still beat them all and have his way.
(b) They will one day beat him.
(c) He will hopefully destroy some of them.
(d) There is only one he wishes to defeat.

3. Where does the first scene take place?
(a) Eleanor's bedchamber.
(b) Henry's bedchamber.
(c) Alais' bedchamber.
(d) The Great Hall.

4. 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.

5. With what type of woman does Henry say he has always fallen in love?
(a) Young ones.
(b) Those who are wealthy.
(c) Who have the rights to land.
(d) Beautiful ones.

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

7. What does Henry want before he dies?
(a) To split his kingdom into thirds for his three sons.
(b) To marry Alais.
(c) To know who is going to inherit his kingdom.
(d) To see Eleanor die.

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

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

10. What does Henry tell her when he sees her put this on?
(a) She is making a futile gesture.
(b) They are too small.
(c) It is not warm enough.
(d) She looks beautiful.

11. Henry brings up Rosamund, which in turn, leads Eleanor to do what?
(a) Make a joke about how poor she was.
(b) Make a joke about how long she has been dead.
(c) Make a joke about how poor of a mistress she was.
(d) Make a joke about how ugly she was.

12. As Eleanor drinks her wine, what does she recall?
(a) How much in love she had once been.
(b) How wealthy she had once been.
(c) How happy she once was.
(d) How beautiful she once was.

13. 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.

14. How does Henry respond when Eleanor asks him a question regarding the Vexin?
(a) It is trivial.
(b) It is essential.
(c) It is of no use to him.
(d) It is quite beautiful.

15. Of what does Henry remind Eleanor?
(a) How many rebellions she has led against him.
(b) How poor the peasants already are.
(c) How much water there had been this summer.
(d) How much it costs to have repairs done.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alais think Henry likes to do with her?

2. Henry says in the years Eleanor's been in prison he's surprised himself by discovering what?

3. Why does Henry ask Alais to stay?

4. Of what does Eleanor say she almost won?

5. How does Eleanor reply when Richard asks again what she wants?

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