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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who appoints himself Duke of Somerset and Protector and advisor to young King Edward after King Henry VIII's death?
(a) Thomas Seymour, brother of the young king's dead mother.
(b) Edward Seymour, brother of the young king's dead mother.
(c) Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester.
(d) Sir Christopher Hatton.

2. What is King Henry VIII's relationship to Lady Jane Grey?
(a) He is her father.
(b) He is her great uncle.
(c) He is her uncle.
(d) He is her grandfather.

3. Who ends up in the Tower instead of the princesses because of the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne?
(a) Sir Thomas Wyatt.
(b) Prince Philip of Spain.
(c) The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey.
(d) Mary Stuart.

4. 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?
(a) The Duke of Norfolk.
(b) Edward Courtenay.
(c) Mary Tudor.
(d) Prince Philip of Spain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose household does Princess Elizabeth live in after her father's death?

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

3. Who keeps Princess Elizabeth from her dying brother's bedside and intercepts her correspondence to the young king?

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?

5. What story arose about Elizabeth I's appearance after the age of thirty?

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