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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. After the battle, where was the crown found?
(a) In a thicket.
(b) Under a hawthorne bush.
(c) Among wildflowers.
(d) Beneath an oak tree.

2. What basically defeated the rebellion?
(a) Richard III.
(b) Henry Tudor.
(c) Faulty equipment.
(d) Weather.

3. Why does Weir theorize that Richard III murdered the Princes?
(a) Newly discovered forensic evidence proves his guilt beyond a doubt.
(b) He confessed in a letter to a bishop.
(c) He hated children and disliked any in his court.
(d) He never produced them again, even when it would have been politically advantageous.

4. Where did Jasper and Henry Tudor flee after Edward IV ascended to the throne?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Wales.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Brittany.

5. What made a marriage between Richard III and Elizabeth politically impossible?
(a) Elizabeth's inability to bear children.
(b) The rumors of Anne's dishonorable death.
(c) Richard's illness and melancholy.
(d) The incestuous nature of their relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did King Richard III die?

2. Before she allowed her daughters to leave sanctuary, what did Elizabeth Wydville ask Richard III to do?

3. Where specifically was Richard III not to take Elizabeth Wydville's daughters?

4. Whose account is the earliest evidence of rumors that the Princes were dead?

5. Who was Margaret Beaufort?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Richard III have considered marrying his eighteen-year-old niece Elizabeth of York?

2. After their marriage, what children of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII lived to adulthood?

3. How did many people view the death of Richard III's only son, the Prince of Wales?

4. How did Richard III discover Sir James Tyrell's longing for advancement at any cost?

5. Why did Sir James Tyrell, after surviving the change of monarchs and even faring well under Henry VII, choose to support the Earl of Lincoln's ambitions?

6. What unexpected clue turned up during Charles II's renovation of the White Tower?

7. Why was Richard of York often impersonated, but Edward V never impersonated?

8. Why was Buckingham so suddenly alienated from Richard III?

9. What does Weir claim is the most damning evidence against Richard III?

10. Why were the pretenders to the throne dangerous for Henry VII?

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