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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Elizabeth choose as her Master of the Horse when she first becomes queen?
(a) Sir Thomas Wyatt.
(b) Sir Francis Drake.
(c) Lord Robert Dudley.
(d) Sir Christopher Hatton.

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

3. What happens to Princess Elizabeth's mother when the princess is just a toddler?
(a) She dies in childbirth.
(b) She drowns at sea while traveling with the king.
(c) She is accused of adultery and treason and beheaded.
(d) She dies of smallpox.

4. 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) Thomas Seymour.
(b) Lord Burleigh.
(c) Robert Dudley, The Earl of Leicester.
(d) Edward Seymour.

5. Who becomes the ruler of England after King Henry VIII's death when Elizabeth is 14 years-old?
(a) Elizabeth's 27 year-old half sister, Mary Tudor.
(b) Lady Jane Grey.
(c) Mary Stuart.
(d) Elizabeth's nine-year-old half brother, Edward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ends up in the Tower instead of the princesses because of the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne?

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

3. Who tries to seize Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth after King Edward's death, proclaiming Lady Jane Grey as queen of England in place of Henry VIII's daughters?

4. Who marries his son to Lady Jane Grey because of her place in the line of succession to the throne of England?

5. To whom does Elizabeth give a lock of graying red hair in 1572 when she is 39 years-old?

(see the answer key)

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