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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an action Sir William Cecil advises Queen Elizabeth to take to reduce the danger of Mary Stuart seizing the English throne?
(a) Keeping Mary Stuart in prison.
(b) Disallowing Mary Stuart's divorce from Bothwell.
(c) Forcing Mary Stuart to marry the Earl of Leicester.
(d) Publicly declaring Mary Stuart guilty of Darnley's murder.

2. What do four Spanish ships that take refuge in Plymouth and Southampton in December 1568 carry?
(a) 85,000 pounds of gold.
(b) Soldiers to invade the English coast.
(c) A potential bridegroom for Queen Elizabeth.
(d) Jewels and silks from the Orient.

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

4. What keeps Queen Elizabeth's complexion so white?
(a) Elizabeth wears a white powder.
(b) Elizabeth is an albino.
(c) Elizabeth avoids sunlight.
(d) A lotion of egg white, eggshell, alum, borax & poppyseeds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. If Mary Stuart agrees to accept the husband Queen Elizabeth suggests for her, what might Elizabeth consent to do for Mary?

3. To whom does Elizabeth give a lock of graying red hair in 1572 when she is 39 years-old?

4. With Spain supporting Mary Stuart and planning to invade England on her behalf, with what country is it important for Queen Elizabeth and England to form an alliance?

5. How do others see Lord Darnley?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's bout with smallpox and what fear her illness arouses in her councilors.

2. When she breaks her promise to marry him, how does Queen Elizabeth gratify Prince Alenzon?

3. Discuss the plot Spanish ambassador Don Gerau De Spies has to restore England to Catholicism.

4. Why are Lady Lennox and Lady Shrewsbury sent to the Tower when their children marry?

5. Discuss the plot of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland, to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne after King Edward VI dies.

6. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's attitude toward Catholicism and religious tolerance.

7. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's attitude toward the persecution of Catholics in England.

8. Explain how Queen Elizabeth's payment of the debts owed the City of London by King Henry VIII and King Edward VI increase her popularity with her people.

9. Why is Queen Elizabeth reluctant to behead Mary Stuart?

10. What makes Parliament break out into fistfights and how does Queen Elizabeth temporarily resolve the issue?

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