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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Mary Stuart desires to return to Scotland through England?
(a) Her request for a passport is denied.
(b) She gets smallpox.
(c) English Catholics try to put her on the English throne.
(d) Her boat capsizes in the English Channel.

2. What colors does Queen Elizabeth tell Spanish ambassador Don Guzman de Silva are her colors?
(a) Yellow and white.
(b) Black, red, and gray.
(c) Red, green, and blue.
(d) Black and white.

3. What does Queen Elizabeth do with the cargo of the Spanish ships?
(a) Takes it to the Tower and keeps it.
(b) Sends it to Spain.
(c) Sends it to France.
(d) Gives it away to her people.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what does Parliament want to force Queen Elizabeth to do?
(a) Surrender her throne to Catherine Grey.
(b) Declare war on Spain.
(c) Marry.
(d) Declare war on France.

5. How many people attend the state banquet in Westminster hall to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation?
(a) 12.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 200.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Queen Elizabeth's suitors does Sir William Cecil draw a table of the pros and cons of the potential marriage?

2. What do four Spanish ships that take refuge in Plymouth and Southampton in December 1568 carry?

3. Who ends up in the Tower instead of the princesses because of the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne?

4. What does Elizabeth ride in through London to Westminster on the Saturday before her coronation?

5. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who appoints himself Duke of Somerset and Protector and advisor to young King Edward after King Henry VIII's death?

(see the answer key)

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