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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alais say she knows Henry will do, if he has to?
(a) Leave her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Exile her.

2. When Richard responds with a pointed remark about Henry's being with Alais, of what does Eleanor remind him?
(a) Alais is nothing to him.
(b) Alais loves him.
(c) She raised Alais and cares for her a great deal.
(d) She does not care what Henry does.

3. What does Geoffrey tell John?
(a) He is leaving the kingdom.
(b) He has never liked him.
(c) What he said in Eleanor's chamber to convince the others to trust him.
(d) Why no one seems to like him.

4. How does Eleanor say she would have been happier?
(a) If her sons were smarter.
(b) If she had a daughter.
(c) If she had more sons.
(d) If she had been sterile.

5. Where is this scene set?
(a) In the castle's reception room.
(b) In the great room.
(c) In the dining room.
(d) In Henry's bedchamber.

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

7. Eleanor pulls out a small knife and begins to do what with it?
(a) Stab Richard.
(b) Whittle.
(c) Carve her will into her arm.
(d) Stab pillow.

8. What does John admit to Henry?
(a) He has never liked Henry.
(b) He is angry with Richard.
(c) He is upset because Henry's given Richard everything.
(d) He has been plotting to take the crown since he was a teenager.

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

10. What else do they banter about?
(a) How much work needs to be done to the castle.
(b) How poor the crops are this season.
(c) How the peasants are in a uproar over new taxes.
(d) How difficult life is in Eleanor's prison/castle.

11. To whom was Eleanor once married?
(a) Philip's brother.
(b) Philip's father.
(c) Philip's uncle.
(d) Philip.

12. What does the conversation between Richard and Eleanor reveal?
(a) She hopes for them to be as close as they once were.
(b) She is ending their relationship.
(c) She is hoping he will do a favor for her.
(d) She wants to ask for forgiveness.

13. To where does Henry invite Alais?
(a) To go for a walk.
(b) To go to dinner with him.
(c) To meet his wife.
(d) To go down to meet the family with him.

14. Of what does Eleanor remind Richard?
(a) Of her plot to get him the crown.
(b) Of the love she feels for him.
(c) Of the evidence she has against him.
(d) Of the arts she taught him.

15. About what do Eleanor and Henry banter?
(a) The decorations in the castle.
(b) His relationship with Alais.
(c) The dinner that is being served.
(d) How he let her out of prison for the holidays.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Henry's children love him, according to Alais?

2. What does Henry offer Eleanor as they prepare to go in to meet their subjects?

3. How might Henry use the Vexin?

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

5. As Henry and Eleanor finish putting up the holly, they banter about whether Henry truly misses whom?

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