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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who promotes Lord Darnley as a potential husband for Mary Stuart?
(a) William Cecil.
(b) The Earl of Leicester.
(c) His mother, Lady Lennox.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

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

3. In whom does Mary Stuart confide when her marriage to Lord Darnley becomes unhappy?
(a) Rizzio, her Italian secretary.
(b) Lady Lennox.
(c) Sir William Cecil.
(d) Queen Elizabeth of England.

4. What happens when Mary Stuart desires to return to Scotland through England?
(a) She gets smallpox.
(b) English Catholics try to put her on the English throne.
(c) Her request for a passport is denied.
(d) Her boat capsizes in the English Channel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to King Henry's will, what is the order of succession to the throne?

2. Who wants to marry Don Carlos, a criminal lunatic, to gain an alliance with Spain to help dethrone Elizabeth?

3. Where does Queen Elizabeth send Mary Stuart to at the end of Chapter 11?

4. Where does the author say she gets her information about the queen from?

5. To whom is Queen Mary Tudor engaged soon after her ascension to the throne?

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