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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry do to try to get Alais to obey him?
(a) He tortures her.
(b) He blackmails her.
(c) He bribes her.
(d) He bullies her.

2. Alone in her bedchamber, what does Eleanor do?
(a) She cries.
(b) She tries on her jewels.
(c) She wishes she could be away from this kingdom.
(d) She thinks about her marriage.

3. Why did Eleanor hate Rosamund?
(a) She took her place at Henry's side.
(b) She was an evil woman.
(c) She was more beautiful than Eleanor.
(d) She taunted Eleanor.

4. When Richard says he never writes anyone, what does Philip do?
(a) He changes the subject and asks what kind of deal they could make.
(b) He agrees that he does not anyone.
(c) He begins to sob.
(d) He apologizes.

5. Alais says that if Henry truly wants to marry her, what is the price he must pay?
(a) Locking up his sons.
(b) Freeing his sons.
(c) Splitting up his kingdom among his sons.
(d) Killing his sons.

6. As Philip exits, how does Richard refer to Henry?
(a) As a bear.
(b) As a lion.
(c) As a snake.
(d) As an eagle.

7. What does Alais comment about Eleanor?
(a) She seems shy and uncertain.
(b) She seems stern and strict.
(c) She seems cold and unreachable.
(d) She seems kind and loving.

8. About what does Henry taunt Philip?
(a) How he has just given all his plans away.
(b) How he looks.
(c) How he is not a very smart man.
(d) How he is in love with Richard.

9. What does Henry say about Philip's plan to let the princes fight Henry instead of doing it himself?
(a) It is so dangerous.
(b) It is a horrible idea.
(c) It is first-class thinking.
(d) It is a selfish thing to do.

10. What does Alais tell Henry about what he had just done?
(a) He excited her, because she was hoping to marry Richard.
(b) He scared her, because she wants to marry John.
(c) He shocked her, because she never thought she had a chance of marrying into the family.
(d) He cannot play with other people's feelings the way he played with hers.

11. What does Geoffrey remember about his third birthday?
(a) Who was doing what to whom and feeling nothing but indifference from his parents.
(b) The pony his parents had bought for him.
(c) How loving his parents had been when he was younger.
(d) All of his friends who had come to celebrate.

12. Henry declares everyone will be what, until they agree John is to be the next king?
(a) In danger.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Poor.
(d) Crazy.

13. What does Henry ask Eleanor about the Aquitaine?
(a) When she would like to go there.
(b) Whether she has gotten it back from Richard.
(c) Whether he can purchase it from her.
(d) Where it is located.

14. Of what does Richard remind Philip?
(a) He loves him.
(b) He cannot stand him.
(c) He wants to break up with him.
(d) He has not said he loves him.

15. She looks at herself in her mirror and wonders what?
(a) Why she is so alone.
(b) Where the years had gone.
(c) How her king could have left her.
(d) How she had grown so old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Richard to pull a dagger on John?

2. What does Eleanor say to them?

3. When Alais asks whether she ever really loved Henry, particularly before Rosamund came into his life, how does Eleanor respond?

4. Why does Philip say he proclaimed his love for Richard?

5. What does Richard try to convince Philip to do?

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