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

2. Which of the following statements does not describe Queen Elizabeth I's physical appearance?
(a) Her eyes are golden and large-pupiled from short sight.
(b) She closely resembles her father, Henry VIII.
(c) She has her mother's sallow and dark complexion.
(d) She has red-gold hair and very fair skin.

3. Whose household does Princess Elizabeth live in after her father's death?
(a) Her stepmother, Catherine Parr, the Queen Dowager.
(b) The Duke of Somerset.
(c) Mary Stuart.
(d) Her half sister, Mary Tudor.

4. What kind of stockings does Mrs. Montagu give Queen Elizabeth in 1560?
(a) Worsted stockings.
(b) Wool stockings.
(c) Taffeta stockings.
(d) Knitted silk stockings.

5. To whom is Queen Mary Tudor engaged soon after her ascension to the throne?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) The Duke of Norfolk.
(c) Edward Courtenay.
(d) Prince Philip of Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. The Scottish Lords expect to find English Catholics waiting to rise and overthrow Elizabeth's government with them, but what do they find instead?

4. To whom does Queen Elizabeth give the Earldom of Leicester?

5. What is William Cecil's relationship with Elizabeth in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors lead to Mary Stuart's trial and execution?

2. Discuss the demand for glass that arises during Queen Elizabeth's reign.

3. 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.

4. Why is the murder of Rizzio, the Italian advisor to Mary Stuart, important?

5. What factors allow Mary Stuart to engage in perpetual intrigue with France and Spain while she is living in England?

6. Discuss how Lord Darnley becomes king of Scotland and what the Protestant Lords of Scotland feel about his elevated role.

7. What luxuries does the prosperity of peace under Queen Elizabeth bring to the English people and how does the queen's home reflect this luxury?

8. Why does Spain want to invade England in 1587?

9. 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.

10. Discuss the Earl of Essex's relationship with Queen Elizabeth.

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