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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the French ambassador tell the Spanish ambassador about the way Queen Elizabeth spent New Year's Night in 1566?
(a) He says she watched a play.
(b) He says she got drunk.
(c) He says she slept with the Earl of Leicester that night.
(d) He says she danced and played the virginals.

2. Which of the following actions does not occur in response to what Queen Elizabeth does with the cargo of the four Spanish ships?
(a) Spain seizes English merchants' goods in the Netherlands.
(b) England seizes property of Spanish men in England.
(c) A peace treaty is signed between England and Spain.
(d) Spain imprisons English merchants in the Netherlands.

3. Who agrees to be the godmother to the infant son of Mary Stuart?
(a) Lady Lennox.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Catherine de Medici.
(d) Kat Ashley.

4. To whom does Elizabeth give a lock of graying red hair in 1572 when she is 39 years-old?
(a) King Philip of Spain.
(b) The Earl of Essex.
(c) The poet, Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) The Pope.

5. In addition to anyone who murders Queen Elizabeth, who does the Bond of Associate bind Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council to pursue to death?
(a) Anyone who murders a member of the Privy Council.
(b) Anyone who finances Queen Elizabeth's murder.
(c) Anyone in whose interest Queen Elizabeth is murdered.
(d) Anyone who murders the Earl of Leicester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raises Lord Burleigh's grandchildren?

2. Who does the Spanish Ambassador Don Gerau de Spies plot to marry to Mary Stuart to restore Catholicism to England?

3. What kind of stockings does Mrs. Montagu give Queen Elizabeth in 1560?

4. What Catholic does William Cecil think will ascend to the throne and revive Catholicism in England if the Protestant Queen Elizabeth dies without a child?

5. Who is suspected of poisoning Lord Sheffield at the end of Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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