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

2. 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) End her relationship with Henry.
(d) Keep her with him.

3. What does Eleanor say she wants to see?
(a) Philip become king.
(b) John become king.
(c) Geoffrey become king.
(d) Richard become king.

4. What does Henry ask Eleanor to give him?
(a) Her trust.
(b) Her hand in marriage again.
(c) Peace.
(d) Her love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else do they banter about?

2. What does Eleanor say will happen if if Alais does not marry Richard?

3. What does Richard say when Eleanor says she loves him?

4. About what is Eleanor determined?

5. Richard says he is going to do everything in his power to have what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry respond when Eleanor agrees to his plan with one condition?

2. What do the brothers do at the beginning of the scene?

3. How does Eleanor react when Geoffrey asks why he feels only indifference from his parents?

4. How does Eleanor threaten Henry?

5. What plans do the boys make once their mother arrives?

6. What plot is Geoffrey working on?

7. Where are Richard and his brothers? Why?

8. What does Henry say he has realized while Eleanor has been in prison?

9. What does Eleanor say she wants? What is Richard's response to this?

10. How does John feel about Henry? How does Henry learn of this?

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