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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. What does Eleanor ask Henry, regarding the Vexin?

2. What happens as the brothers bicker?

3. What does Geoffrey tell John?

4. How does Henry respond when Eleanor asks him a question regarding the Vexin?

5. What does Henry tell her when he sees her put this on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it learned that there is a romance between Philip and Richard?

2. What does Richard do when Philip mentions their relationship to his father?

3. What takes place between Eleanor and Richard?

4. Why does Henry ask Eleanor if she has gotten the Aquitaine back from Richard?

5. Why does Henry want Richard to have the crown?

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

7. How does Henry act towards Alais? What is the excuse he gives to Eleanor?

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

9. What does Geoffrey say can happen now that the others trust him?

10. How much of an enemy can Alais be?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eleanor and Henry have different perspectives on love.

Part 1) What is each character's perspective on love? Compare these two views.

Part 2) How does this affect their relationships with others and each other?

Part 3) What might be the reason for their differing perspectives? Use the play to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

This play seems to end where it began.

Part 1) How is this true? What have the characters gained, if anything, throughout the course of this play?

Part 2) Why would the playwright have his play end similarly to how it begins?

Part 3) What are your thoughts on this play, as a whole? Do you have any suggestions for the playwright? If so, what are they? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

All the characters and many of the circumstances of this play are matters of historical record.

Part 1) Describe these characters. Why might the author use real people?

Part 2) What circumstances might be real? How do you know this?

Part 3) What is the author's purpose for putting real characters into both real and fictional circumstances?

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