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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is William Cecil's relationship with Elizabeth in Chapter 4?
(a) He is her Secretary of State.
(b) He is her lover.
(c) He is her guard while she is in the tower.
(d) He is her cousin.

2. Whose household does Princess Elizabeth live in after her father's death?
(a) Her stepmother, Catherine Parr, the Queen Dowager.
(b) Her half sister, Mary Tudor.
(c) The Duke of Somerset.
(d) Mary Stuart.

3. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who is caught with the teenage Princess Elizabeth in his arms and eventually taken to the Tower and executed for planning to marry her without the king's Privy Council?
(a) Lord Burleigh.
(b) Robert Dudley, The Earl of Leicester.
(c) Thomas Seymour.
(d) Edward Seymour.

4. Although Elizabeth and her Master of the Horse have known each other since Elizabeth was eight, when does their relationship become closer before her ascension to the throne?
(a) When they are both imprisoned in the Tower of London.
(b) When Elizabeth almost dies of smallpox.
(c) When the Master of the Horse becomes Elizabeth's guardian.
(d) When Elizabeth's father dies.

5. Who becomes Lord High Admiral of the English navy after King Henry VIII's death?
(a) Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester.
(b) Sir Christopher Hatton.
(c) Sir Francis Drake.
(d) Thomas Seymour, Somerset's brother & Edward's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to bring Princess Elizabeth to the English throne in place of Mary, her sister?

2. What is King Henry VIII's relationship to Lady Jane Grey?

3. What Catholic does William Cecil think will ascend to the throne and revive Catholicism in England if the Protestant Queen Elizabeth dies without a child?

4. Which of the following statements does not describe the effect the book's focus has on the book's shape?

5. According to King Henry's will, what is the order of succession to the throne?

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