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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has a medal made to commemorate the Massacre of St. Bartholomew?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Catherine de Medici.
(d) Mary Stuart.

2. What happens to Lady Lennox as a result of her matchmaking for a youth of royal blood without the Crown's permission?
(a) She is imprisoned in the Tower.
(b) She is beheaded.
(c) She is banished to Scotland.
(d) She is hung.

3. What does the Earl of Leicester tell the French ambassador that Queen Elizabeth said about marriage when she was eight years-old?
(a) That she would never marry.
(b) That she could not wait to marry.
(c) That she would marry six times like her father.
(d) That she wanted to marry Leicester.

4. What does Sir Thomas Gresham establish in London on Cornhill in 1571?
(a) A silk cloth manufacturing firm.
(b) A seat of commercial exchange.
(c) A glass-making shop.
(d) A printing shop.

5. What keeps Queen Elizabeth's complexion so white?
(a) Elizabeth avoids sunlight.
(b) Elizabeth wears a white powder.
(c) A lotion of egg white, eggshell, alum, borax & poppyseeds.
(d) Elizabeth is an albino.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what does Parliament want to force Queen Elizabeth to do?

2. Who marries Lord Sheffield's widow four days before she gives birth to his son?

3. Why does Lord Burleigh's son-in-law, the Earl of Oxford, become angry with Lord Burleigh in Chapter 17?

4. How do others see Lord Darnley?

5. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?

(see the answer key)

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