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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 is Interdict?

2. Who tells young Joanna the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine?

3. Who accuses John of killing King Henry by choosing to join Richard's battle against Henry?

4. What does King John warn the Welsh Princes not to do in Chapter 24?

5. Who advises Joanna's husband that Joanna is unhappy in her new home?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason has Llewelyn ab Iowerth come to live in Shropshire? From where has he come? How does he feel about this?

2. Who is Clemence? What is significant about her death?

3. Why does John convince the Count of Angouleme to allow him to marry his daughter, Isabelle?

4. Why does Joanna return to Aber two weeks sooner than planned in Chapter 20?

5. Who is kidnapped by the Austrians? Why does John attempted to pay the Austrians to keep this person a full year?

6. What does Henry Plantagenet tell John that causes him to decide to join Richard in his fight for the crown rather than to remain at his father's side?

7. What gift does Joanna want to give to Llewelyn that she cannot wait until morning to deliver?

8. Who does Llewelyn offer sanctuary to in Chapter 26?

9. What law forces Llewelyn's mother, Marared, to allow her son to remain in Wales and reclaim his father's lands?

10. What conflict does King John find himself embroiled in with the Pope in Chapter 19?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Joanna? What is significant about her birth? Why does Joanna's mother commit suicide? Why is Joanna sent to live with her father? How does Joanna's father respond to meeting his daughter for the first time? How does Joanna feel about her father? How does Joanna respond to meeting her stepmother for the first time? Why? What does this suggest about Joanna's future?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the history of the novel. How accurate is the history of this novel? How close to the reality of the life of Llewelyn is the writer? Was there really a Joanna? Was she really the daughter of King John? How many facts about Joanna's life did the writer get accurate? What parts of Joanna's life are left unknown to history? What has the writer done with these parts of Joanna's life? What about Llewelyn? Was there really a Llewelyn? Did Llewelyn marry a woman named Joanna? What was the real Llewelyn's impact on the history of Wales?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the death of King John. With whom is King John battling in the final days of his life? How does King John lose his entire treasury? What causes King John to become ill? Where is John taken as he battles his illness? Who does John name as his heir? Who is with John when he dies? For what reason? Why does Joanna suffer regret when her father dies? What change does King John's death bring to England? How does King John's death impact Wales?

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