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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Edward Seymour.
(c) Thomas Seymour.
(d) Robert Dudley, The Earl of Leicester.

2. 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?
(a) Lady Jane Grey.
(b) The Earl of Essex.
(c) Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) The Duke of Northumberland.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe Wyatt's Rebellion depicted in Chapter 3?
(a) A French plot to make Mary Stuart Queen of England.
(b) A plan to stop the Spanish marriage of Queen Mary.
(c) A plot to marry Princess Elizabeth to Edward Courtenay.
(d) A plot that results in Elizabeth going to the Tower.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Queen Elizabeth hesitate to take a more active part in the Protestant rebellion in Scotland?

3. How many people attend the state banquet in Westminster hall to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation?

4. What happens when Mary Stuart desires to return to Scotland through England?

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

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