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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the falling out affect Edward?
(a) He is exiled to France.
(b) He is set free by the Earl of Gloucester.
(c) He is killed by Simon.
(d) He is set free by Bran de Montfort.

2. How does Simon's army attempt to escape?
(a) By subterfuge.
(b) By surrendering.
(c) By concentrating on one spot in the lines.
(d) By withstanding a siege.

3. What happens in the first wave of the attack?
(a) Simon's knights pin Edward in the city.
(b) King Henry surrenders.
(c) Simon's army is routed.
(d) Edward turns the attackers back, and follows them into the woods.

4. What have Henry's barons been trying to convince him to do?
(a) Return the Lusignan territory to France.
(b) Stop supporting the Lusignans.
(c) Absorb the Lusignans' territories.
(d) War against the Lusignan family.

5. What do Davydd and Owain want to gain by invading Gwynedd?
(a) They want Llewelyn to split his lands between his brothers.
(b) They want to rule Wales.
(c) They want to deliver Wales to England.
(d) They want to unify Wales against England.

6. Who is the head of the barons who are frustrated by the Lusignans?
(a) Llewelyn.
(b) Edward.
(c) Simon.
(d) Davydd.

7. Why is Simon called to England again?
(a) Complaints are still being made against him.
(b) Henry wants to put someone else in charge.
(c) Henry wants to shield Simon from hostility.
(d) He is going to be promoted.

8. What does Simon meet when he gets to London?
(a) Fanfare.
(b) Confused mobs of fighting factions.
(c) Deserted streets.
(d) Opposition.

9. How does Edward learn that Bran's army is exposed?
(a) Citizens of Kenilworth report it to him.
(b) He arrives at Kenilworth and surprises them.
(c) He has a spy in the army.
(d) He had arranged with one of Bran's knights to arrange it.

10. What happens to Nell after Simon's death?
(a) She is kept a prisoner in Dover Castle.
(b) She goes into exile in France.
(c) She is killed by Simon's forces.
(d) She is married to Edward's son Edward.

11. What is the king's response to the complaints made about Simon?
(a) He sends a new seneschal to rule.
(b) He leaves Simon in charge.
(c) He limits Simon's power.
(d) He keeps Simon's children as hostages.

12. With whom does Simon have a falling out?
(a) Earl of Gloucester.
(b) Earl of Chester.
(c) Bran de Montfort.
(d) Edward.

13. How many people are members of the council in the Oxford Provisions?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

14. What are the terms Simon give Henry in surrender?
(a) He demands unconditional surrender.
(b) He lets Henry go without much by way of reparation.
(c) He decimates Henry's troops.
(d) The Oxford Provisions.

15. Why is Bran's army outside the walls of Kenilworth?
(a) To gather wood and food.
(b) To betray them to Edward's army.
(c) To protect the inhabitants of the city.
(d) To enjoy the cool river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Henry in the Tower of London?

2. What does Llewelyn give Davydd?

3. What is Simon accused of?

4. What have the Lusignans been doing, when Nell and Richard approach them?

5. How does Edward get into Northampton to attack Simon's army?

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