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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe the effect the book's focus has on the book's shape?
(a) The shape of the book is very irregular.
(b) Some important events get a very brief mention.
(c) Some minor events are relayed in great detail.
(d) The book is arranged in chronological order.

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

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

4. 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) Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester.
(b) Sir Christopher Hatton.
(c) Thomas Seymour, brother of the young king's dead mother.
(d) Edward Seymour, brother of the young king's dead mother.

5. According to King Henry's will, what is the order of succession to the throne?
(a) Mary, Elizabeth, Edward.
(b) Mary, Edward, Lady Jane Grey.
(c) Lady Jane Grey, Edward, Mary.
(d) Edward, Mary, Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does the author say the aim of the book is in the introduction?

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

5. 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?

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