View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12 A Dangerous Person and A Vain Crack of Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion did Elizabeth I practice?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

2. Why was it dangerous for Mary to go abroad?
(a) She was not well constituted to travel and was constantly ill.
(b) She could gain support for European Catholics who wanted her to take the English throne.
(c) She could not swim and was deathly afraid of water.
(d) There was a contract taken out on her life by Scotland.

3. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I mother?
(a) Katharine of Aragon.
(b) Katherine Parr.
(c) Mary Tudor.
(d) Anne Boleyn.

4. What was Elizabeth's nickname for William Cecil, her Secretary of State?
(a) Pen.
(b) Book.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Gypsy.

5. Why did Elizabeth press Mary Queen of Scots to wed Leicester?
(a) She wanted Erik of Sweden to be jealous.
(b) She wanted Mary Queen of Scots to come and live in England with her.
(c) She wanted to discourage Mary's other Catholic suitors.
(d) She wanted to get Leicester out of the court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Elizabeth's nickname?

2. Who did Catherine de'Medici propose the Queen marry in 1565?

3. How did Amy Dudley's death affect her husband?

4. In what year did Henry VIII die?

5. Who, in a play for political power, may have been behind Amy Dudley's death?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 255 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample