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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Weir theorize that Richard III murdered the Princes?

2. What family inherited the throne after Elizabeth I's death in 1603?

3. What animal, found in an old underground pipe or tunnel, was briefly thought to be one of the Princes'?

4. What was Richard III's policy on the subject of the Princes?

5. How did the King feel about Elizabeth Wydville's refusal to leave sanctuary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors kept Richard III from marrying his niece?

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

3. What happened when Richard III sent orders to Brackenbury to kill the Princes?

4. Why was Richard so unpopular in the South of England?

5. What is Alison Weir's ultimate conclusion of who killed the princes in the tower?

6. How, probably, were the Princes murdered?

7. Sadly, what had the conspirators made clear to Richard III that was the opposite of their intent?

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

9. Why, claims Weir, was Tyrell's confession of the murder of the Princes significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richard III allegedly killed his nephews to gain a crown.

1) How did the Princes turn out to be more of a threat to Richard dead than alive?

2) How did the failure to present the Princes alive become detrimental to Richard's reign?

3) How did the alleged murder of the Princes hurt Richard III's claim to the throne?

Essay Topic 2

According to Weir, did Richard III really have a deformity? Why or why not?

1) What do the few surviving portraits show?

2) What do the accounts of his contemporaries reveal?

3) How were adjustments made to his image in the Tudor period?

Essay Topic 3

Richard III's usurpation was a carefully thought out plan.

1) How did he invalidate the Princes' claim to the throne?

2) How was Buckingham involved in the usurpation?

3) What tactics did Richard use to neutralize the Council?

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