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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Princess Elizabeth's mother when the princess is just a toddler?
(a) She dies of smallpox.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She is accused of adultery and treason and beheaded.
(d) She drowns at sea while traveling with the king.

2. What happens to bring Princess Elizabeth to the English throne in place of Mary, her sister?
(a) Mary dies after a long illness.
(b) Elizabeth weds Edward Courtenay and overthrows Mary.
(c) Mary is murdered by Protestant sympathizers.
(d) Mary is overthrown by Mary Stuart and taken to the Tower.

3. Where does the author say she gets her information about the queen from?
(a) Various sources already published.
(b) Secret diaries of Lord Burleigh.
(c) Spanish and French documents about Elizabeth I.
(d) Secret diaries of Queen Elizabeth.

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?
(a) The Duke of Norfolk.
(b) Mary Tudor.
(c) Edward Courtenay.
(d) Prince Philip of Spain.

5. What is King Henry VIII's relationship to Lady Jane Grey?
(a) He is her great uncle.
(b) He is her uncle.
(c) He is her father.
(d) He is her grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Catherine Parr encourage Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward to study?

2. Who tries to seize Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth after King Edward's death, proclaiming Lady Jane Grey as queen of England in place of Henry VIII's daughters?

3. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who is caught with the teenage Princess Elizabeth in his arms and eventually taken to the Tower and executed for planning to marry her without the king's Privy Council?

4. Although Elizabeth and her Master of the Horse have known each other since Elizabeth was eight, when does their relationship become closer before her ascension to the throne?

5. According to the introduction, on what does the book focus?

(see the answer key)

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