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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who marries his son to Lady Jane Grey because of her place in the line of succession to the throne of England?
(a) Philip Sidney.
(b) Thomas Seymour.
(c) Sir Francis Drake.
(d) The Duke of Northumberland.

3. Where does the author say she gets her information about the queen from?
(a) Secret diaries of Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Secret diaries of Lord Burleigh.
(c) Various sources already published.
(d) Spanish and French documents about Elizabeth I.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following statements does not describe Queen Elizabeth I's physical appearance?

5. Who becomes the ruler of England after King Henry VIII's death when Elizabeth is 14 years-old?

(see the answer key)

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