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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elizabeth ride in through London to Westminster on the Saturday before her coronation?
(a) A chariot draped with crimson velvet.
(b) A silk-draped litter carried by eight footmen.
(c) A golden coach.
(d) A coach draped with rubies and pearls.

2. What happens to Lord Darnley in Edinburgh the day before he marries Mary Stuart?
(a) He is killed in a sword fight.
(b) He drowns.
(c) He is proclaimed King of Scotland.
(d) He gets the plague.

3. How does Queen Elizabeth revive the Royal Navy?
(a) She offers titles and lands for joining the Navy.
(b) She sends medicine to ailing sailors.
(c) She drafts more men into the Navy.
(d) She increases sailors' wages and builds strong ships.

4. What story arose about Elizabeth I's appearance after the age of thirty?
(a) That she could not have children.
(b) That she was illegitimate and did not deserve the throne.
(c) That she was bald.
(d) That she was secretly married to the Earl of Leicester.

5. What religion is Queen Mary Tudor determined to reinstate as England's national religion when she ascends to the throne?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Judaism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Elizabeth choose as her Master of the Horse when she first becomes queen?

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

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?

5. Who is murdered in the presence of the pregnant Mary Stuart?

(see the answer key)

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