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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. Who is Amy?

2. What month does the court move in to Hampton in 1558?

3. What does Hannah do with her breeches in summer, 1556?

4. Who does Hannah meet on the street on her way to Daniel's home during the invasion?

5. What is Bishop Bonner known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Daniel tell Hannah when her father becomes seriously ill?

2. Who does Hannah see while out riding her horse? What does this person bring to Elizabeth?

3. What does Daniel's mother instruct Hannah about in Calais?

4. What is Elizabeth's behavior like while the Queen is in confinement?

5. How does Mary view her failed pregnancy, and what does it inspire her to do?

6. On what charge is Hannah arrested? Who vouches for her when she is brought before Bishop Bonner? After new laws are passed which widen the criteria for arrest for heresy, Hannah is arrested.

7. Under what circumstances does Mary agree to name Elizabeth her heir?

8. What makes Hannah long to return to England in 1557?

9. When Hannah returns to court, what state does she find the Queen in?

10. Who visits Calais in the early summer in 1557?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the death motif in the novel "The Queen's Fool". Who dies in the novel and why? How do these deaths affect Hannah, particularly the death of her father?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of power in the novel "The Queen's Fool". Who seeks power? Why do Mary and Elizabeth desire to become Queen? What do they want to do as Queen? To what lengths does Elizabeth go to achieve this goal? To what lengths does Mary go to keep her title? Who is Lady Jane Grey and how does she (and her supporters) try to takeover the throne?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss some of the major differences between life in the Tudor period and like in modern-day England. How might this story have been different if it were set in modern-day England?

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