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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Queen Elizabeth revive the Royal Navy?
(a) She offers titles and lands for joining the Navy.
(b) She increases sailors' wages and builds strong ships.
(c) She sends medicine to ailing sailors.
(d) She drafts more men into the Navy.

2. Who wants to marry Don Carlos, a criminal lunatic, to gain an alliance with Spain to help dethrone Elizabeth?
(a) Catherine Grey.
(b) Lettice Devereux.
(c) Mary Stuart.
(d) Elizabeth.

3. 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.

4. During her era, what is unusual about the way Queen Elizabeth bathes?
(a) She bathes in icy water.
(b) She does not use soap.
(c) She bathes her entire body in an oval bath.
(d) She only bathes once a year.

5. When Mary Stuart writes Queen Elizabeth in Chapter 22, who does she blame for the gossip about her?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Catherine de Medici.
(c) Lord Burleigh.
(d) Lady Shrewsbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Lettice Devereux plot to marry her daughter?

2. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?

3. How does the author say teeth are cleaned during Queen Elizabeth's lifetime?

4. What keeps Queen Elizabeth's complexion so white?

5. When a comet appears over London, what do many people believe it heralds?

(see the answer key)

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